I am a final-year PhD candidate in the Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Manangement at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, advised by Prof. Stathis Tompaidis and Prof. Junyu Cao. I am also fortunate to work with Prof. Kumar Muthuraman, Prof. Wei Qi, and Prof. Daniel Mitchell. Previously, I received my master’s degree at University of Minnesota and bachelor’s degree at Fudan University in Shanghai, China.

Publications and Manuscripts

1. Robust Financial Networks [pdf]
   with Daniel Mitchell and Stathis Tompaidis
   Operations Research, Forthcoming.
2. “Uber” Your Cooking: The Sharing-Economy Operations of a Ghost-Kitchen Platform [pdf]
   with Junyu Cao and Wei Qi (alphabetical order)
   Under review at Management Science.
3. Impact of Automated Vehicles on Traffic Assignment, Mode Split, and Parking Behavior [pdf]
   with Di Kang and Michael Levin
   Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment, Volume 104, 2022, 103200.
   

Work in Progress

1. Machine Learning in Portfolio Optimization
   with Daniel Mitchell and Kumar Muthuraman
   Working paper.

Teaching

Instructor, McCombs School of Business, UT Austin
DS 235 Introduction to Decision Science, Summer 2024
Teaching Assistant, McCombs School of Business, UT Austin
BA 287 Business Analytics and Decision Modeling (MBA core course), Spring & Fall 2021, Fall 2022, Spring 2023
BAX 358 Optimization Methods and Decision Making, Spring 2023
DS 235 Introduction to Decision Science, Fall 2020, Spring 2022

Awards

University Graduate Continuing Fellowship, UT Austin, 2024
Graduate School Professional Development Award, UT Austin, 2023
McCombs Dean’s Fellowship, UT Austin, 2021 - 2023
Graduate School Provost Fellowship, UT Austin, 2020
Graduate School Recruitment Fellowship, UT Austin, 2020