Dual-Title Ph.D., Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, The Pennsylvania State University, 2019
M.S., Physics, The Pennsylvania State University, 2015
B.S., Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, 2012
Aug. 2022 - present, Assistant Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, The University of Tennessee Knoxville
Aug. 2019 - Jul. 2022, Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering and Management, Oklahoma State University
Jiahao Shao (Spring 2024 - Present)
Expected to graduate in Spring 2028
M.S., Business Analytics, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
B.A., Economics with Minor in Computer Science, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Xizhuo Zhang (Fall 2024 - Present)
Expected to graduate in Summer 2028
M.S., Computer Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
B.E., Mechanical Design, Manufacturing & Automation, Shandong University, China
Jianxin Xie (Fall 2020 - Summer 2023)
First position: Tenure-track assistant professor, School of Data Science, The University of Virginia
Dissertation topic: Physics-constrained modeling and optimization of complex systems with healthcare application
M.S., Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, Florida State University, USA
B.S., Physics, Southeast University, China
Zekai Wang (Fall 2020 - Summer 2024)
First position: Tenure-track assistant professor of business analytics, School of Business, Fairfield University
Dissertation topic: Advanced Machine Learning for Data-driven Disease Prediction
M.S., Applied Statistics and Data Analytics, Southern Methodist University, USA
B.E., Civil Engineering, Wuhan University of Technology, China
Ariana Torres Nieves (Summer 2024 - Present)
Anirudhha Harsha (Summer 2025 - Present)
Dr. Di Bo (Feb. 2024 - Jun. 2024)
Ph.D., Industrial & Systems Engineering, the University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA
M.S., Statistics and Data Science, the University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA
M.S., Chemical Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, China
B.S., Engineering, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, China
Deep Patel (Spring 2023, supported by UTK first-year undergraduate research program)
Owen Burns (Summer 2023, supported by the QAO REU program)
Gillon Lim (Summer 2023, supported by the QAO REU program)
Alexander Nwanganga (Summer 2024, supported by the QAO REU program)
Elizabeth Mastilak (Summer 2025, supported by the QAO REU program)
Evan Coleman, Firas Rahman, Joseph Saucer, Amaya Tumbull (July, 2025)
Wuyang Qian (Fall 2019 -Summer 2022), Oday Bani Ahmad (Spring 2022), Shahu Chunade (Fall 2019 - Spring 2021), Suraj Milindra Shirsale (Fall 2021 - Spring 2022)
Grace Hendrix (Spring 2022, supported by OSU Freshman Research Scholars Program)