Javad Seif

Engineering Complex Systems

Optimization, quality, reliability, production & service systems, and industrial AI

Featured Writing

Feb 24, 2026

In Optimization, LLM Translates. Humans Define.

If you give AI a well-written operations research problem, it will produce the mathematical formulation instantly, which is impressive. But who decided what the problem actually is?

Featured Published Work

An extensive operations and maintenance planning problem with an efficient solution method

Javad Seif and Andrew J. Yu · 2018 · Computers & Operations Research

In this paper, we extend the formulation and solution algorithm of a Flight and Maintenance Planning (FMP) problem to cover a wider range of applications. We co…

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