Synergizing Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research: Perspectives from INFORMS Fellows on the Next Frontier

The authors are grateful to Prof. Yu Ding, editor-in-chief of INFORMS Journal on Data Science, for the invitation to contribute to this topic. The authors extend their sincere appreciation to Jeff Cohen and Matthew Walls for their invaluable assistance in administering the survey and to Elena Gerstmann for her support in facilitating the distribution of the survey to all INFORMS Fellows. The authors also appreciate the guidance of their colleagues serving on the INFORMS 2024 AI Roadmap Ad Hoc Committee, whose input informed the survey topics and interpretation. The authors acknowledge the contributions of all of the fellows who participated in both the pilot and main survey phases. Their expertise ensured the representativeness and relevance of the findings. The authors acknowledge the use of generative tools, including ChatGPT-4o and Claude.ai, to iteratively generate an initial draft based on prompts by Holly Wiberg and Tinglong Dai. All authors substantively edited and verified the accuracy of the text. The intellectual contributions, ideas, and conclusions presented are solely those of the authors and are based on the input of the fellows survey.