Students

Ph.D. Students:

• Yannan Wang

Research Assistants:

• Cristián Sánchez Olavarría  (Universidad de Chile), Summer 2026

• Zhiping Li (Fudan University), Summer 2025-Spring 2026

  • Placement: Ph.D. Student, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Minnesota

• Yuncheng Yang (Tsinghua University), Summer 2025-Spring 2026

Student Awards:

• Congratulations to Yannan on being selected as a finalist for the 2026 INFORMS Undergraduate Operations Research Prize for the paper “On Sequential Convex Approximations of Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Chance Constrained Programs”

• Congratulations to Zhiping on being named a runner-up for the 2026 INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) Student Paper Award for the paper “Solving Chance Constrained Programs via a Penalty-based Difference-of-Convex Approach"