Qi (琪) Wang (王)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Industrial and Operations Engineering
University of Michigan
Email: qiwangqi@umich.edu
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Qi (琪) Wang (王)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Industrial and Operations Engineering
University of Michigan
Email: qiwangqi@umich.edu
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I will present Parameter-Free Schemes for Smooth Stochastic Optimization: Adaptation and Acceleration at the 2026 INFORMS Annual Meeting Job Market Showcase.
About
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan, working with Prof. Uday V. Shanbhag. I received my Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Lehigh University in January 2025 under the supervision of Prof. Frank E. Curtis. I hold an M.S. with Distinction in Financial Operational Research from the University of Edinburgh and a B.Econ. from the University of International Business and Economics.
My research develops and analyzes scalable and adaptive algorithms for nonlinear optimization under uncertainty. I work on parameter-free stochastic methods, inexact second-order methods, and algorithms for nonlinear constrained optimization, with applications in machine learning and scientific computing.
I was a Givens Associate at Argonne National Laboratory in summer 2024. At Lehigh University, I served as president of the INFORMS Student Chapter in 2022 and received the 2024 ISE Ph.D. Student of the Year Award. Before pursuing my Ph.D., I worked in industry for three years.