Ishai Menache

Partner Research Manager

About

I lead the Machine Learning and Optimization (opens in new tab) group at Microsoft Research, Redmond. I completed my Ph.D. at the Technion (opens in new tab), and spent a couple of years at MIT (opens in new tab) as a postdoc associate.

Areas of interest:

Large-scale optimization
Machine learning – algorithm design and applications
Cloud computing (systems, applications, economics)
Supply chain management

Current projects:

OptiGuide (opens in new tab) – Decision intelligence with GenAI (HBR article (opens in new tab))
CLEO (opens in new tab) – Cloud Efficiency Optimization (VM allocation, datacenter management, cloud supply chain)

Recent PCs:

SPAA’16 (opens in new tab), EuroSys’17 (opens in new tab), NETGCOOP’18 (opens in new tab) (chair), ASPLOS’19 (opens in new tab) (ERC), ICML’19 (opens in new tab), NeurIPS’19 (opens in new tab), APOCS’21, (opens in new tab)EuroSys’24 (opens in new tab)