I am currently a fifth-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 in Moscone South-50. The talk is part of the session TD01 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!