VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Stéphane Verguet
dblp:417/0881
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · unresolved
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Mathematical optimization · 61% Approximation and online algorithms · 30% Algorithmic game theory and mechanism design · 9% | |
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Medical and health informatics · 100% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Approximation and online algorithms
approximation algorithms |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Optimizing Health Coverage in Ethiopia: A Learning-augmented Approach and Persistent Proportionality Under an Online Budget · AAAI 2026 |
Mathematical optimization › combinatorial optimization
greedy algorithm |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Optimizing Health Coverage in Ethiopia: A Learning-augmented Approach and Persistent Proportionality Under an Online Budget · AAAI 2026 |
Mathematical optimization
online optimization |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Optimizing Health Coverage in Ethiopia: A Learning-augmented Approach and Persistent Proportionality Under an Online Budget · AAAI 2026 |
Algorithmic game theory and mechanism design › fair division
proportional allocation |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | Optimizing Health Coverage in Ethiopia: A Learning-augmented Approach and Persistent Proportionality Under an Online Budget · AAAI 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
learning-augmented algorithms · 2.0greedy algorithm · 2.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Optimizing Health Coverage in Ethiopia: A Learning-augmented Approach and Persistent Proportionality Under an Online BudgetabstractAs part of nationwide efforts aligned with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 3 on Universal Health Coverage, Ethiopia's Ministry of Health is strengthening health posts to expand access to essential healthcare services. However, only a fraction of this health system strengthening effort can be implemented each year due to limited budgets and other competing priorities, thus the need for an optimization framework to guide prioritization across the regions of Ethiopia. In this paper, we develop a tool, Health Access Resource Planner (HARP), based on a principled decision-support optimization framework for sequential facility planning that aims to maximize population coverage under budget uncertainty while satisfying region-specific proportionality targets at every time step. We then propose two algorithms: (i) a learning-augmented approach that improves upon expert recommendations at any single-step; and (ii) a greedy algorithm for multi-step planning, both with strong worst-case approximation estimation. In collaboration with the Ethiopian Public Health Institute and Ministry of Health, we demonstrated the empirical efficacy of our method on three regions across various planning scenarios. Davin Choo, Yohai Trabelsi, Fentabil Getnet, Samson Warkaye Lamma, Wondesen Nigatu, Kasahun Sime, Lisa Matay, Milind Tambe, Stéphane Verguet |
AAAI | 9 |