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

My research interests lie in decision-making under uncertainty, with an intersection of optimization, statistics, and machine learning. Besides methodology, 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 a reviewer for journals like OR, MS, MP, SIAM OPT, MathOR, JASA, JMLR, as well as conferences like NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AISTATS, and COLT. I am a skier, swimmer, hiker, and I play tennis.

I am looking for motivated PhD students and research interns interested in multi-agent RL and game, optimization modeling and algorithms, causality, and agentic AI, with backgrounds in mathematics, statistics, operations research, computer science, and other related fields. Feel free to send me an email if you find anything interesting.