Yongchun Li (李永春)
Assistant Professor
School of Data Science
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Email: yongchunli@cuhk.edu.cn
Office: Zhi Xin Building, Room 403d
Actively recruiting self-motivated Ph.D. students. If interested, please contact me with a detailed CV and college education transcript.
About Me
Dr. Yongchun Li is an assistant professor in the School of Data Science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen). From 2024-2025, Dr. Li worked as an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She received a PhD in Operations Research from Georgia Tech. Her research interests include optimization, machine learning (ML), and statistics, with the goal of advancing ML towards greater interpretability, efficiency, fairness, and robustness.
Awards
Finalist, INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) Paper Competition, 2025 (Winner to be announced)
Mathematical Programming 2024 Meritorious Service Award, 2025
First Place, INFORMS 2024 Data Mining Society's Data Competition, 2024
Shabbir Ahmed Research Fellowship, Georgia Tech, 2023
ARC-ACO Fellowship Award for Spring 2023, Georgia Tech, 2022
Runner-up, Student Paper Competition, INFORMS Computing Society, 2021
Finalist, Student Paper Competition, IISE Data Analytics & Information Systems Division, 2021 & 2023
First Place, Student Paper Competition, INFORMS Data Mining Section, 2020
First Place, Student Poster Competition, INFORMS & HFES Student Chapters, Virginia Tech, 2019 & 2020
Finalist, Student Poster Competition, INFORMS, 2019
First Place, Student Poster Competition, Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) Workshop, MIT, 2019
Education
Ph.D. in Operations Research, Georgia Tech, 2022 - 2024
Ph.D. Candidate in Operations Research, Virginia Tech, 2018 - 2022
B.S. in Information Management, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China, 2014 - 2018