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 

• 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