Teaching and Supervision

Master Thesis Supervision (I propose thesis projects, hire students and supervise the thesis progress.)

• Jie-Ming Li, master thesis at ETH Zurich, 2024.

Thesis: Robust Policy Gradient Algorithms in Linear MDPs.

• Xiaoshuang Wang, master thesis at ETH Zurich, 2023. 

Thesis: Open-Loop Inventory Control with Fixed-Order Cost. 

Current Position: PhD student of ISyE at Georgia Tech.

• Liang Zhang, master thesis at ETH Zurich, 2021. 

Thesis: Variance Reduction for Non-Convex Stochastic Optimization: General Analysis and New Applications.

Current Position: PhD student of Computer Science at ETH Zurich.

Mentoring PhD research Projects (I design research projects and mentor PhD students.)

• Buse Sen, first-year PhD student at EPFL. 

• Mengmeng Li, third-year PhD student at EPFL. 

• Vinzenz Thoma, second-year PhD student at ETH Zurich.

Teaching Assistant

• Spring 2024 (expected): Optimal Decision Making (MGT483, EPFL)

• Fall 2022 & Fall 2023: Strategic Marketing and Technology Commercialization (MGT401, EPFL)

• Spring 2023: Innovation Management (MGT411, EPFL)

• Fall 2021: Foundations of Reinforcement Learning (Preparing course material, ETH Zurich)

• Fall 2019: Optimization of Large Systems (IE411, UIUC)