Shixiang (Woody) Zhu
祝士祥
Assistant Professor
Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy
Carnegie Mellon University
Address: 4800 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh PA 15213
Office: Hamburg Hall 2118H
Email: shixiangzhu (at) cmu (dot) edu
Phone: (412) 268-9083
CV, Google Scholar, Github
Research Interest
My research bridges machine learning, statistics, and operations research, with a focus on three domains:
Sequential Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification
Human-AI Collaboration in Decision Making
Operations and Management in Energy Systems
News
Feel free to shoot me an email if you are interested in ML, Stats, OR and their applications in energy systems.
2025
Jun 2: our team, led by Zekai, won the 3rd place (out of 44) in the 2025 PG&E Energy Analytics Challenge.
May 29: give an invited talk at TRB DATA Conference, Seattle.
May 28: give a SPX Research Talk at Amazon.
May 23: our paper won the best paper award at 2025 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting.
May 8: give a talk at GenAI Fellows Seminar.
Mar 24: Wendy and Michelle received Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF).
2024
Dec 17: receive 2024-2025 Block Center Seed Grant.
Nov 21: attend NSF Workshop on Data-driven Modeling and Prediction of Rare and Extreme Events, Chicago.
Oct 19: serve as the organizer of the 19th INFORMS Workshop on Data Mining and Decision Analytics, Seattle.
Oct 10: selected as 2024 Gen-AI fellows.
Oct 9: give an invited talk at Northwestern Kellogg Operations Seminar, Evanston.
Aug 29: received NSF funding with Dr. Zhigang Peng for our project.
Aug 23: give an invited talk at YinzOR.
Aug 21: give a seminar talk on “Predictive Modeling and Robust Decision Making for Grid Resilience” at ANL.
Jun 16-29: participate in the IMSI Long Program “The Architecture of Green Energy”, Chicago.
May 8: attend NSF OSEER Workshop: Operations Engineering for Hazard and Disaster Mitigation, Boston.
Mar 26: Aoran received Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF).
Mar 22: give a talk at 2024 INFORMS Optimization Society Conference, Houston.
2023
Dec 15: give a spotlight talk (paper) at 2023 NeurIPS DGM4H workshop, New Orleans.
Nov 3: give a talk (paper) at the OM Seminar in Tepper.
Oct 27: our paper is the spotlight (five out of 44 accepted papers) at DGM4H Workshop NeurIPS 2023.
Sep 26: our paper is selected as the finalist of 2023 QSR Best Student Paper Competition.
Sep 25: give a talk (paper) at the SQUALL seminar at CMU.
Sep 14: our paper is selected as the Best Applied Paper Finalist for the 18th INFORMS DMDA Workshop.
Aug 25-26: Wenbin (poster) won the first place in the Best Poster Competition for the 2023 YinzOR Student Conference.