I am deeply grateful to NSF, Alibaba DAMO Academy, and UF for their financial support, which has been instrumental in driving the progress of my research.
Research Grants
NSF Civil Infrastructure System (CIS) Program (CMMI-2309667). "Collaborative Research: Advancing Fairness for Emerging Infrastructure Systems with High Operational Dynamics." Role: PI. ($290,549, 07/2023–06/2026)
ISE-HWCOE Research Thrust Pilot Program (RTPP). "Exploiting Spatiotemporal Energy Arbitrage for Electric Vehicle Battery Swap Stations With Faithful Battery Degradation Modeling." Role: PI; Co-PI: Minhee Kim. ($10,000 in total, my share $5,000, 12/2022-08/2023)
Alibaba DAMO Academy Air Research. "Machine Learning for General Mixed Integer Programming Solver Acceleration." Role: Sole PI. ($77,156, 03/2022-04/2023)
UF Research Artificial Intelligence Research Catalyst Fund (seed fund). "Real-Time Management of Micromobility Services for Smart Cities." Role: Co-PI; PI: Xilei Zhao; Co-PI: Xu Sun. ($50,000 in total, my share $15,141.66, 01/2021-12/2021)
Awards
Meritorious Reviewer for Transportation Science (2025)
Meritorious Reviewer for INFORMS Journal on Computing (2024)
Best Paper Award at the 2022 IEEE IAS Industrial and Commercial Power System Asia