I am currently a fourth-year Ph.D. student studying in the department of Computational and Applied Mathematics & Operations Research at Rice University. 

My research lies in optimization under uncertainty. I focus on models with online sequential decision-making. My advisor is Dr. Sebastian Perez-Salazar. Please refer to my CV  and my Google Scholar for more information on my research.

Feel free to reach out. I can be reached at yx67 [at] rice [dot] edu.

I am on the academic job market in Fall 2026.

I will present “Dynamic Optimization for Breast Cancer Screening: Clinic Routing and Scheduling” at the 2026 INFORMS Annual Meeting. The talk is part of the session Recent Advances in Dynamic Allocation and Matching and will take place on Tuesday, November 3, from 3:15 to 3:30 p.m. Come and join me!