Biography

Research and Professional Experience

September, 2018 - present. Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering; Affiliated with Department of Statistics, Texas A&M University

July, 2013 - July, 2018. Assistant Professor, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

October, 2016 - May, 2018. Visiting Assistant Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology.

December, 2015 - March, 2016. Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Statistics, National University of Singapore.

January, 2014 - June, 2014. Research Scientist Supported by Advanced Short-Term Research Opportunity, Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Education

Chinese Academy of Sciences

(Visiting Georgia Institute of Technology)

Ph.D. in Statistics             September, 2010 - July, 2013

Advisors: Profs. C. F. Jeff Wu, and Dan Yu

M.S. in Statistics                     September, 2008 - August, 2010

Advisor: Prof. Jian Shi

University of Science and Technology of China

B.S. in Statistics               September, 2004 - July, 2008

Editorial

Associate Editor, IISE Transactions (Focus Issue of Data Science, Quality and Reliability (DSQR)), Nov 2021-present.

Honors and Awards

Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2016.

2022 Texas A&M Institute of Data Science Career Initiation Fellow .

Statistics in Physical Engineering Sciences Award, 2022.

INFORMS Impact Prize, 2022.

Winner, 2023 INFORMS QSR Best Paper Competition.

Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station 2023 Engineering Genesis Award