PhD Students

 I am very blessed to be working with many wonderful students. The following are the students whom I currently supervise or have supervised.

Jianyu Wang: CSI PhD Student at George Mason University  (MS, Johns Hopkins University)

Tentative Research Topic: Impact of task similarity on lifelong learning

Weicong Chen: CSI PhD Student at George Mason University      (MS, Johns Hopkins University)       

Tentative Research Topic: Metrizing fairness and robustness in machine learning models

 Eric Ampaw:  CSI PhD Candidate at George Mason University   

 Tentative Research Topic: Predicting the trend of the stock price for the emerging African market using machine learning models

Hanyun Shen: CSI PhD Student at George Mason University       (MS, Johns Hopkins University)                   

Tentative Research Topic: Robust optimization approach to fair resource allocation

Md Mahfuzur Rhaman: CSI PhD Student at George Mason University       (MS, University of Evora, Portugal)     

 Tentative Research Topic: Learning and optimization frameworks for effective disaster risk reduction

Yingze Hou: PhD Candidate at University of Pittsburgh (co-adviser: Taposh Banerjee) ( MS, Johns Hopkins University)  

 Expected Graduation Date:  Feb 2025

 Dissertation Title: Robust change-point detection for anomalies and effective response for pandemic


Ke Ren: PhD, University of Pittsburgh (co-adviser: Bo Zeng) (MS, University of Rochester)


Graduation Date: July 2021


PhD Dissertation Title: A study of data-driven models with challenges arising from OR applications


Current Position: Research Scientist, Amazon Web Services


Teaching

I have designed and taught multiple courses covering a broad range of topics in data analytics, probability and statistics, optimization, modeling, and simulation. I consistently received positive teaching evaluations and feedback over the past years.

George Mason University

Course Developed

Course Taught

University of Pittsburgh

MIT