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Data Assimilation and Inverse Problems for Digital Twins
Towards Decision-Ready Operator Surrogates
Thomas O'Leary-Roseberry, Ohio State University
Thursday, October 9, 2025
Abstract: Modern decision-making for complex physical and engineered systems increasingly requires the ability to quantify high-dimensional uncertainties and make decisions by solving risk-averse optimization problems under uncertainty—all in near real-time. Operator learning has emerged as a promising framework for enabling scalable surrogate modeling in this context. However, such approaches inevitably introduce approximation errors that can degrade the quality of downstream decisions.