Baizhi Song

Operationalizing Experimental Design: Data Collection for Remote Ocean Monitoring

  • Jean Pauphilet
  • Baizhi Song
    • Categories (Mixed) Integer Nonlinear Programming, Statistics, Transportation Tags , , , ,

    Problem definition: To collect data on ocean plastic pollution and build more accurate predictive models, we need to manually take high-resolution pictures of the sea surface via floating or flying drones. Operating these vehicles, like many data collection problems in agriculture or environmental science, challenges the traditional optimal experimental design (OED) formulation from statistics by … Read more

    Optimizing the Path Towards Plastic-Free Oceans

  • Dick den Hertog
  • Jean Pauphilet
  • Yannick Pham
  • Bruno Sainte-Rose
  • Baizhi Song
    • Categories Applications - OR and Management Sciences, Dynamic Programming, Transportation Tags , , ,

    Increasing ocean plastic pollution is irreversibly harming ecosystems and human economic activities. We partner with a non-profit organization and use optimization to help clean up oceans from plastic faster. Specifically, we optimize the route of their plastic collection system in the ocean to maximize the quantity of plastic collected over time. We formulate the problem … Read more