Postdoctoral Researcher

• Wei Gu, Ph.D. in Operations Research, USC (Fall 2025 - present).
  

Ph.D. Students

• Wenbin Zhou, Ph.D. student (2023 - present).

  • NSF IISE 2026 Student Travel Award.

  • Winner, 2026 IISE QCRE Best Track Paper Competition.

  • 2nd place, 2026 INFORMS Innovative Applications in Analytics Award.

  • Runner up, 2025 INFORMS Data Mining Best Applied Paper.

  • Best Paper Award, 2025 IEEE Power & Energy Society.

  • Winner, 2023 & 2025 YinzOR Poster Competition.

• Ryan Shuyi Chen, Ph.D. student (2024 - present).

  • Winner, 2026 IISE DAIS Best Track Paper Competition.

  • Winner, 2025 INFORMS ENRE Best Student Paper Award.

• Minxing Zheng, Ph.D. student (2025 - present).

Undergraduate Students

• Marco Jih-Vieira, undergrad supported by SURF, CMU, Summer 2026.

• Archith Sharma, undergrad supported by SURF, CMU, Summer 2026.

Visiting Students

• Yolanda Zhou, visiting student, UMich, 2026-2027.

• Yida Xu, visiting undergrad, Emory, Summer 2026.

• Eshaan Dixit, visiting undergrad, Georgia Tech, Summer 2026.

Other Students

• Michelle Guo, undergrad supported by SURF, CMU, Summer 2025.

  • 2025 INFORMS Data Mining Undergraduate Research Poster Travel Grant.

  • 1st Place, 2025 OR/MS Tomorrow Mini Poster Competition.

• Wendy Wang, undergrad supported by SURF, CMU, Summer 2025.

• Zekai Fan, Ph.D. student (2nd Paper), CMU, 2026.

  • 3rd Place, 2025 PG&E Energy Analytics Challenge.

• Prince Wang, Ph.D. student (1st Paper), CMU, 2025.

• Zhijie Gao, undergrad co-advised with Beibei Li, CMU, 2024-2025.

  • After: Ph.D. student at NYU Stern.

• Aoran Zhang, undergrad supported by SURF, CMU, 2024.

  • 2024 INFORMS Data Mining Undergraduate Research Poster Travel Grant.

  • After: Ph.D. student at Rice ECE.

• Yiwei Dong, visiting student co-hosted with Holly Wiberg, Summer 2024.

  • After: Ph.D. student at NYU ECE.

• Wenqian Xing, Ph.D. student collaborator, Stanford, 2023-2024.

• JungHo Lee, Ph.D. student collaborator, CMU, 2023.

• Shenghao Wu, Ph.D. student collaborator, CMU, 2023.

  • Spotlight, 2023 NeurIPS Workshop on Deep Generative Models for Health (DGM4H).

• Cindy Xiangrui Kong, master, CMU, 2023.

  • After: Ph.D. student at Purdue Math.

• Ashley McDaniels, undergrad supported by SURE, North Dakota State University, Summer 2021.

• Emmanuel Teferi, undergrad supported by SURE, Princeton, Summer 2018.