About AI4DM-RG
AI4DM-RG is a reading group on AI for decision-making. We bring together students, faculty, and external researchers to discuss recent work across machine learning, optimization, operations research, probabilistic modeling, and robust decision systems.
Machine LearningOptimizationOperations ResearchDecision-Making
Yassine YaakoubiFaculty lead - Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University
Yassine is an Assistant Professor at Concordia University and leads a research group in AI for Decision Making (AI4DM). His research interests lie at the intersection of optimization, learning, and simulation techniques for large-scale, real-world decision-making.
Research focus
AI for Decision-MakingOptimizationLearningSimulation
Omid Reza HeidariOrganizer - PhD student, Concordia University
Omid Reza is a PhD student at Concordia University supervised by Yassine Yaakoubi. His interests include multimodal vision-language models, large language models, multimodal AI agents, and reinforcement learning.
Research focus
Multimodal AILLMsAI AgentsReinforcement Learning
Diaa AzzamOrganizer - PhD student, Concordia University
Diaa is a PhD student at Concordia University supervised by Yassine Yaakoubi and contributes to AI4DM-RG organization, speaker coordination, and technical logistics.
AI4DM-RG role
OrganizationSpeaker coordinationTechnical logistics
Manar HamedOrganizer - PhD student, Concordia University
Manar is a PhD student at Concordia University supervised by Yassine Yaakoubi and contributes to AI4DM-RG communications, registration, and speaker coordination.
AI4DM-RG role
CommunicationsRegistrationSpeaker coordination
Mahmoud Khaled AbdelkaderOrganizer - PhD student, Concordia University
Mahmoud is a PhD student at Concordia University supervised by Yassine Yaakoubi. His research focuses on contextual optimization, integrating machine learning with mathematical optimization to improve decision-making in uncertain, high-stakes environments.
Research focus
Contextual OptimizationMachine LearningDecision-Making