Miscellaneous

Honors and Awards

  • Best Paper Award. 9th International Conference for Research in Air Transportation (ICRAT 2020).

  • Best Paper Award. 8th International Conference for Research in Air Transportation (ICRAT 2018).

  • Best Paper Award. 12nd USA/ Europe Air Traffic Management R&D Seminar (ATM 2017).

  • Best Paper Award. 7th International Conference for Research in Air Transportation (ICRAT 2016).

Activities and Invited Talks

  • 2020 ITS Berkeley Doctoral Presentations: Machine Learning for Trajectory Modeling in the National Airspace Systems: Data Mining, Inference, and Deep Generative Models. Video Records.

  • 2019 INFORMS Annual Meeting. Topic: Autonomous UAS Traffic Management System for Multi-Aircraft Coordination. Deep Learning Technology in ATM/UTM.

  • 2019 INFORMS Annual Meeting. Topic: Assessing the Impact of Weather and TMIs to the En Route Performance in the National Airspace System

  • 2019 TRB Annual Meeting. Topic: An Econometric Model of Flight En Route Inefficiency.

  • 2018 INFORMS Annual Meeting. Topic: Quantity-contingent Auctions and Allocation of Airport Slots.

  • 2018 INFORMS Annual Meeting. Topic: Predicting Actual Aircraft Trajectory with Deep Mixture Density Recurrent Neural Networks. Session Chair of Data-driven Analysis for Air Transport

  • 2018 ICRAT Conference. Topic: Predicting Aircraft Trajectory Choice – A Nominal Route Approach.

  • 2017 ATM Seminar. Topic: Causal Analysis of En Route Flight Inefficiency–the US Experience.

  • 2017 TRB Annual Meeting. Topic: En Route Performance in the National Airspace System.

  • 2016 INFORMS Annual Meeting. Topic: Multivariate Analysis of Flight En Route Efficiency.

  • 2016 NEXTOR 20th Anniversary Workshop. Poster: Causal Analysis of En Route Flight Inefficiency.

  • 2016 ICRAT Conference. Topic: Estimating Costs of Flight Delay to Air Cargo Carriers.

Programming Skills

  • Python; Tensorflow; MXNet; Redshift SQL; R; Gurobi; MongoDB; PostgreSQL; PostGIS; MATLAB; LaTeX; Biogeme

Leisure Life

  • I play tennis regularly and am a huge fan of Roger Federer!

  • I am a piano enthusiast and am really into Franz Liszt's works.

  • I am also a fencing (foil) beginner.