I am an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics, Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ). Before that, I was a postdoc researcher at EPFL and ETH Zurich. I obtained PhD in Operations Research from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.  

My research interests lie in decision-making under uncertainty, with an intersection of optimization, statistics, and machine learning. I study problems arising from reinforcement learning, alignment of LLM, large-scale causal inference, and operations management, aiming to build new models and develop simple-to-implement methods with provable guarantees. See Slides for easy-accessible introduction to my work. I serve as an area chair for ICML and ICLR. 

I am looking for motivated PhD students and interns interested in multi-agent RL and game, optimization modeling and algorithms, causality, and agentic AI. Feel free to send me an email if you find anything interesting. I am a skier, swimmer, hiker, and I play tennis.