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Sebastian Merten

(HK 30) Room 238
Dr.-Hans-Kapfinger-Str. 30
94032 Passau

Tel.: +49 851-509-5365
Sebastian.Merten@uni-passau.de

  • Explainability and Interpretability in Optimization
  • The Intersections of Optimization and Machine Learning
  • Optimization under Uncertainty

Publications:

  • M. Goerigk, M. Hartisch, S. Merten, K. Sharma. Feature-Based Interpretable Surrogates for Optimization, To appear in Annals of Operations Research. [preprint]
  • M. Goerigk, M. Hartisch, S. Merten. Towards Robust Interpretable Surrogates for Optimization. [preprint]
  • M. Goerigk, M. Hartisch, S. Merten, A. Miehlich. Chicago Graph and Travel Time Data. [Dataset] https://zenodo.org/records/15267992

Presentations:

  • 01/2026 GPOM Workshop, Ingolstadt
  • 10/2025 EUROYoung Workshop, Naples
  • 09/2025 International Workshop on Explainability and Interpretability in Optimization, Nuremberg
  • 09/2025 International Conference on Operations Research – OR25, Bielefeld
  • 06/2025 Learning and Intelligent Optimization Conference – LION19, Prague (Poster)
  • 09/2024 International Conference on Operations Research – OR 2024, Munich
  • 07/2024 GPOM Workshop, Munich
  • 07/2024 European Conference on Operational Research – EURO 2024, Copenhagen
  • 03/2024 Business Analytics Seminar, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam
  • 08/2023 International Conference on Operations Research – OR 2023, Hamburg

Summer Semester:

  • Decision Making Under Uncertainty (Exercise)
  • Combinatorial Optimization (Exercise)

Winter Semester:

  • Artifical Intelligence and Optimization (Exercise)
  • Data and Decisions (Exercise)
  • Supply Chain and Operations Management (Exercise)
  • Bachelorseminar in Business Analytics

  • since 04/23
    PhD Student/ Research Assistant, University of Passau
  • 03/23
    M.Sc. Business Analytics, University of Siegen
  • 03/21
    B.Sc. Business Administration, University of Siegen
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