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Appointments & Education

2020 - current: Assistant Professor of Information Systems (tenure track), School of Computing and Information Systems, Singapore Management University
2018 - 2020: SMART postdoc scholar, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
2016 - 2018: Postdoctoral fellow, CN Chair in Optimization of Railway Operations, and Canada Excellence Research Chair in Data Science for Real-Time Decision-Making, IVADO and GERAD.
2013 - 2016: Ph.D. in Operations Research (Dean's honor list), Department of Computer Science and Operation Research, University of Montreal.
- - Dynamic programming approaches for estimating and applying large-scale discrete choice models. [pdf][Extended abstract].
  - Advisors: Emma frejinger and Fabian Bastin. Dissertation Committee: Pierre L'Ecuyer (chair, UdeM), Patrice Marcotte (UdeM), Hani Mahmassani (Northwestern University).
Nov - Dec, 2015: Visiting student, Intelligent Transportation Systems laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
2010 - 2012: M.Sc. in Operations Research, Department of Computer Science and Operation Research, University of Montreal.
- - Revisiting optimization algorithms for maximum likelihood estimation.
  - Advisors: Fabian Bastin and Michel Toulouse.
2004 - 2009: B.Sc. in Computer Science, School of information & communication technology, Hanoi University of Technology, Viet Nam, June, 2009.

2024-2026: Lee Kong Chian Fellowship - Established in 2014 using the Lee Kong Chian Fund for Research Excellence from the Lee Foundation, the Fellowship acknowledges and rewards SMU faculty who have an excellent research record and hold great promise.
2018 MIT-SMART scholar fellowship, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) [link]
2016 INFORMS-TSL Dissertation Prize (1st place) (The oldest and most prestigious honor for doctoral dissertations in the transportation science and logistics area) [link]
2016 Eric Pas Dissertation Prize (1st place) (Annual prize recognizing the best doctoral dissertations in the area of travel behaviour research) [link]
Best Paper Award, 3rd Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation, September 2014.
PhD thesis on Dean's honor list, Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral studies (FESP), University of Montreal, May 2017.
J.A. Bombardier Excellence Award, FESP - UdeM, September 2015.
Michael-Florian Scholarship, CIRRELT - Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation (December 2015).

Conference Service

Area Chair — ICLR 2027
Senior PC — IJCAI (including 2025)
Reviewer and Program Committee Member (since 2023) — NeurIPS, ICLR, IJCAI, AAAI, AISTATS, and ICML, AAMAS, ICAPS (and some more)

Journal Reviewing

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological; Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies; Transportation; Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board; EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics; Transportation Science.
Operations Research; INFORMS Journal on Computing; Manufacturing & Service Operations Management; Production and Operations Management; Computers & Operations Research; Journal of Choice Modelling.

Editorial Service

Associate Editor — Journal of Combinatorial Optimization (JOCO)

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