Jannis Kurtz

• Feb. 2026
  Our paper on counterfactual explanations for linear optimization problems is part of the EJOR Editors’ Choice Articles of January 2026. 

• Nov 2025
  I will give an invited keynote talk at the CWI Workshop on Learned methods for operations research on deep learning enhanced methods for robust and bilevel optimization.

• Oct 2025
  I presented our works on explainability for integer optimization problems at the EURO Online Seminar Series on Operations Research and Machine Learning.

• Sep. 2025
  Our Explainable Optimization webpage is online! If you want  your publication, event or software package to be added please contact us on www.exporg.org.

• Sep. 2025
  Season 6 of the Robust Optimization Webinar is starting on Friday, September 5, with our first speaker Alexander Shapiro.

• Aug. 2025
  We are organizing the International Workshop on Explainability and Inter­pretability in Optimization which takes place in September 2025 at Energie Campus Nuremberg

Bounding the Optimal Number of Policies for Robust K-Adaptability.

Kurtz, J.  |  Mathematical Programming  |  2026

Counterfactual explanations for linear optimization.

Kurtz, J., Birbil, Ş. İ., & den Hertog, D.   |  European Journal of Operational Research, 329(1), 24-41  |  2025

Approximation Guarantees for Min-Max-Min Robust Optimization and-Adaptability Under Objective Uncertainty.

Kurtz, J.  |  SIAM Journal on Optimization, 34(2), 2121-2149   |  2024

Neur2BiLO: Neural Bilevel Optimization.

Dumouchelle, J., Julien, E., Kurtz, J., & Khalil, E. B.  |  In Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (pp. 86688-86719).  |  2024

Neur2RO: Neural two-stage robust optimization.

Dumouchelle, J., Julien, E., Kurtz, J., & Khalil, E. B.  |  The Twelfth International Conference on Learning Representations  |  2024

Data-driven robust optimization using deep neural networks.

Goerigk, M., & Kurtz, J.  |  Computers & Operations Research, 151, 106087  |  2023

Min–max–min robust combinatorial optimization.

Buchheim, C., & Kurtz, J.  |  Mathematical Programming, 163(1), 1-23  |  2017