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Maximilian SCHIFFER

Professeur Associé

Information Systems et Operations Management

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Biographie

Maximilian Schiffer is an Associate Professor in the Information Systems and Operations Management department at HEC Paris and holds the Hi! PARIS Chair in “Artificial Intelligence for Decision Making in Business” at HEC Paris, supported by the France 2030 AI Cluster programme. Prior to joining HEC, he was a tenured Professor at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). He received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from RWTH Aachen University in 2017 and subsequently held a visiting postdoctoral scholar position at Stanford University.

His research operates at the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and operations research. Specifically, his work focuses on Decision-Focused Learning, Structured Reinforcement Learning, and stochastic optimization, developing methodologies for high-impact business decision-making in operations, supply chains, and transportation. He regularly publishes in top-tier Operations Research and Management Science journals, including Management Science, Operations Research, Mathematical Programming, and Production and Operations Management. Additionally, his work frequently appears at leading machine learning conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, and AAAI.

Maximilian's contributions to the field have been recognized with numerous honors, including the INFORMS TSL Dissertation Prize , the GOR Doctoral Dissertation Prize , and the Paper of the Year 2024 Award from INFORMS Transportation Science. He is also a frequent speaker at leading international venues, having delivered among others the opening keynote at ROADEF 2025 in Paris , as well as invited keynotes at LION , the AAAI AI4Opt Workshop , and a Pierce Seminar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Articles scientifiques

Contextual Stochastic Vehicle Routing with Time Windows

INFORMS Journal on Computing, À paraître, (in coll. with B. Serrano, A. M. Florio, S. Minner, T. Vidal)

Optimization-augmented machine learning for vehicle operations in emergency medical services

European Journal of Operational Research, À paraître, (in coll. with M. Rautenstrauß)

Analyzing the potentials of car-free zones in Munich

European Journal of Operational Research, À paraître, (in coll. with V. Stadnichuk, G. Walther)

Reproducibility in the Control of Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand Systems

IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2026, vol. 42, pp 1428-1447, (in coll. with X. Li, M. Alharbi, D. Gammelli, J. Harrison, F. Rodrigues, M. Pavone, E. Frazzoli, J. Zhao, G. Zardini)

Learning-Based Online Optimization for Autonomous Mobility-on-Demand Fleet Control

INFORMS Journal on Computing, mai - juin 2026, vol. 38, n° 3, pp 745-765, (in coll. with K. Jungel, A. Parmentier, T. Vidal)

Ambulance demand prediction via convolutional neural networks

Operations Research, Data Analytics and Logistics, juin 2026, vol. 46, n° 200497, (in coll. with M. Rautenstrauss)

A decomposition-based approach for large-scale pickup and delivery problems

European Journal of Operational Research, septembre 2026, vol. 333, n° 3, pp 746-761, (in coll. with G. Hiermann)

Mitigating retail platform externalities via inter-supplier returns

European Journal of Operational Research, mai 2026, vol. 331, n° 1, pp 92-107, (in coll. with C. J. Liepold, P. Amorim)

Dynamic capacity allocation of hybrid transportation units for cargo-hitching in urban public transportation systems

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, avril 2026, vol. 206, n° 103412, (in coll. with P. Bischoff, B. Lienkamp, T. Rambha)

A Note on Piecewise Affine Decision Rules for Robust, Stochastic, and Data-Driven Optimization

Operations Research, juillet - août 2026, vol. 74, n° 4, pp 2075-2087, (in coll. with S. Thomä, W. Wiesemann)

Actes de conférence

Structured Reinforcement Learning for Combinatorial Decision-Making

39th annual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems , 2025 (H. HOPPE, L. BATY, L. BOUVIER, A. PARMENTIER)

Enhancement of Vendor-Managed Inventory Planning Through Deep Reinforcement Learning

2024 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) , 2024 , Orlando (M. Ratusny, J. H. Kim, H. Sekiya, H. Ehm)

Cahiers de recherche

Articles scientifiques

A decomposition-based approach for large-scale pickup and delivery problems

European Journal of Operational Research, septembre 2026, vol. 333, n° 3, pp 746-761, (in coll. with G. Hiermann)

A Note on Piecewise Affine Decision Rules for Robust, Stochastic, and Data-Driven Optimization

Operations Research, juillet - août 2026, vol. 74, n° 4, pp 2075-2087, (in coll. with S. Thomä, W. Wiesemann)

Ambulance demand prediction via convolutional neural networks

Operations Research, Data Analytics and Logistics, juin 2026, vol. 46, n° 200497, (in coll. with M. Rautenstrauss)

Dynamic capacity allocation of hybrid transportation units for cargo-hitching in urban public transportation systems

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, avril 2026, vol. 206, n° 103412, (in coll. with P. Bischoff, B. Lienkamp, T. Rambha)

Actes de conférence

Structured Reinforcement Learning for Combinatorial Decision-Making

39th annual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems , 2025 (H. HOPPE, L. BATY, L. BOUVIER, A. PARMENTIER)

Enhancement of Vendor-Managed Inventory Planning Through Deep Reinforcement Learning

2024 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) , 2024 , Orlando (M. Ratusny, J. H. Kim, H. Sekiya, H. Ehm)

Cahiers de recherche

Formation

  • Ph.D. (with honors) in Operations Research, RWTH Aachen University - Allemagne

Nominations académiques

Responsabilités académiques à HEC

  • 2026- Professeur Associé HEC Paris

Responsabilités académiques externes

  • 2022-2022 Professor for Business Analytics and Intelligent Systems Technical University of Munich_TUM

Activités scientifiques

Adhésion à l'organisation académique ou professionnelle

  • Membre : German Society of Operations Research (GOR), Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), Deutscher Hochschullehrer Verband (DHV), Verband der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaftslehre (VHB)

Activités scientifiques

  • 2021- Editorial advisory board member (early career) Transportation Research Part C

  • Prix ​​& honneurs

    • 2025 Paper of the Year 2024 Award, INFORMS Transportation Science
    • 2025 Best Paper Award, LION19 – The 19th Learning and Intelligent Optimization Conference