Sheldon
H. Jacobson Ph.D.
University
of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Invited Keynotes and Plenaries
Plenary, “The Future
of Aviation Security includes Facial Recognition. Are you ready for it?” Coles College Research Symposium on Homeland Security, Kennesaw State University, October 23,
2025, Atlanta, Georgia.
Plenary, “AI in
the Sky: The Future of Aviation Security,” INFORMS International Meeting,
July 20-23, 2025, Singapore.
Keynote, 2025 Campus Awards for Excellence in Public
Engagement Awards
Ceremony, University of Illinois, May 20, 2025, Urbana, IL.
Plenary, “The Future
of Aviation Security includes Facial Recognition. Are you ready for it?” INFORMS Security
Conference, 28-30 July 2024, Arlington, Virginia.
Keynote, “AI &
Society: Opportunities, Risks, and Rewards.” University of Illinois Chicago
Business School Workshop on AI and Society,” 10 May 2024, Chicago, Illinois.
Omega Rho plenary, “Operations Research and
Public Policy: Making a Difference.” INFORMS Annual Meeting (Remote), 8
November 2020.
Plenary, “How Risk-based Thinking can
inform Decision-making In a Covid-19
World.” INFORMS Chicago Regional Meeting (Remote), 24 September 2020.
Keynote,
“Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in Public Health,” Big Data Ignite, 5
November 2019, Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Keynote, “A
Recheck on TSA PreCheck: Aviation
Security in 2040,” Coles College Research Symposium, Kennesaw State University,
10 October 2019, Atlanta, Georgia.
Keynote,
Doctoral Colloquium: 2016 INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 12, 2016, Nashville,
Tennessee, “Untold Secrets of Academia: Things Your Advisor Never Told You.”
Keynote,
Doctoral Colloquium: 2015 INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 31, 2015,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, “Untold Secrets of Academia: Things Your Advisor
Never Told You.”
Plenary (with
J.J. Sauppe), 4th Rutgers Applied Probability Conference,
October 2-3, 2015, Rutgers
University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, " Balance Optimization Subset
Selection: A Framework for Causal Inference with Observational Data.”
Keynote, State
of the Art Health Systems Engineering Conference, January 27, 2015,
Indianapolis, IN, “From Engineering to Empathy: A Modelers View of Medicine.”
Keynote, Graduate Student
Faculty Relations Workshop, April 4-6, 2014, College Station, TX, "Zen and
the Art of Building Relationships Between Graduate Students and Faculty,"
Opening Plenary,
Health Systems Optimization Workshop, September 12-13, 2014,
Chicago, IL, "Operations Research and Health Care: An Opportunity to Make
A Difference.”
Plenary, 2013 CASE, August 18, 2013,
Madison, Wisconsin, “Research Directions into the Future: Thoughts and
Perspectives from an NSF Program Director.”
Opening
Plenary, Opening Workshop, SAMSI Program on Data-Driven
Decisions in Healthcare, August 26-29, 2012, Research Triangle Park, NC,
“Operations Research and Health Care: An Opportunity to Make A Difference.”
Plenary,
Workshop: Computer Simulation: Opportunities and
Challenges, July 23-25, 2012, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, "Dynamic, Risk-Based Aviation Security
Screening Policy Performance Analysis Using Simulation.”
Plenary, International Conference on Systems Analysis Tools for Better Health
Care Delivery: A New Engineering/Health Care Partnership, March 24-26, 2010,
Gainesville, FL, “The Economics
of Vaccine Manufacturing, Distribution and Delivery: Past, Present, and Future.”
Keynote, Ph.D. Colloquium, 2005 Winter Simulation Conference, December 4, 2005, Orlando, Florida, “Life as a Ph.D. Student: The Good Old Days.”