Making Operations Research More Accessible: Insights from the Rise of Machine Learning

The authors sincerely thank Yoshua Bengio (Université de Montréal), the editor-in-chief, and two anonymous reviewers for their insightful feedback on this position paper. Prof. Albert was supported in part by the National Science Foundation Award 1935550. Prof. Le was supported in part by the National Science Foundation Award 2423909. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the National Science Foundation. Tho V. Le initiated the idea. The last two authors are listed in alphabetical order. All authors wrote, edited, and approved the manuscript. They have equal contributions.