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At the beginning of January, I (Marta Ribeiro) had the pleasure of participating in the AIAA SciTech Forum 2024 in Orlando, where I presented two papers produced at our section. One paper covered the prediction of non-routine maintenance tasks, showcasing a model developed by a PhD candidate from our section, Haonan Li. The second highlighted a potential framework for the certification of reinforcement learning applications in air transportation.

With a reputation for an open, interactive teaching style and incorporating fun and innovative ways to learn, Dr. Alessandro Bombelli was named TU Delft Educator of the Year 2023.

At the end of November, we (Malte von der Burg and Marta Ribeiro) had a great experience of participating in SESAR Innovation Days 2023 in Seville. This conference is the main dissemination activity for SESAR Joint Undertaking’s results. Additionally, the conference aims for a balance between academia and industry, with exploratory research from both sides being shown.

The first week of September, I attended the ESREL conference (European Conference on Safety and Reliability). The conference was held in Southampton this year, where the weather was unexpectedly warm and nice. Southampton is an old harbour city in the south of the United Kingdom.

We kindly invite you to the Airport Technology Lab* Showcase & Hackaton event, where we will be presenting two exciting days filled with insightful presentations and engaging roundtable discussions. The ATL is a digital driven fieldlab at RTHA in which different parties can jointly develop and test new products and services. TU Delft (AE, EEMCS, IDE) has been actively involved from the start. The event will take place on Thursday 8 and Friday 9 June at Albeda Rotterdam The Hague Airport College in Rotterdam.

I'm Marta Ribeiro and I come from Portugal. I moved to the Netherlands late 2014. I am currently an Assistant Professor at Air Transport and Operations (ATO) at TUDelft, where I explore artificial intelligence/machine learning methods to improve aircraft operations.

Alessandro Bombelli awarded funding in the Aula, TU Delft. context of the Open Education Stimulation Fund 2022 to develop interactive learning material for Operations Research courses.

In the third week of January, I attended the two-day LNMB conference with Simon van Oosterom. LNMB, an abbreviation for the very complicated Dutch name “Landelijk Network Mathematische Besliskunde”, is a network that organizes courses for Dutch master and PhD students on Operations Research (OR) and Optimization.

Dr. Juseong Lee successfully defended his Doctoral thesis on December 7th at the Aula, TU Delft.

Last 30 of November, the ATO group had a nice surprise from Sinterklaas and its helpers. The group celebrated Sinterklaas in a fun (leuk) and pleasant (gezellige) atmosphere.