Curriculum Vitae

Academic Position

• Assistant Professor in Decisions, Operations and Technology, CUHK Business School, The City University of Hong Kong. 06/2023–Present.

• Assistant Professor in Management Sciences, City University of Hong Kong. 06/2019–06/2023.

• Research Associate in Analytics & Operations, Imperial College Business School. 02/2018–06/2019. 

• Research Engineer in Industrial Systems Engineering and Management, National University of Singapore. 07/2017–02/2018.

Education

• Ph.D. in Analytics & Operations, NUS Business School, National University of Singapore. 08/2012–08/2017.

• B.Eng in Automotive Engineering, Tsinghua University. 09/2008–07/2012.

Honors

• College Research Excellence Award, College of Business, City University of Hong Kong, 2022.

• Finalist in INFORMS George E. Nicholson Student Paper Competition, INFORMS, 2017.

Presentations

• School of Mathematical Sciences, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China, 06/2024.

• College of Management, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China, 05/2024.

• College of Management and Economics, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China. 05/2024. 

• School of Business Administration, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. 03/2024. 

• School of Management, Shandong University, Jinan, China. 03/2024. 

• Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. 01/2024.

• School of Mathematical Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China. 12/2023. 

• School of Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 12/2023.

• Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, China, 12/2023.

• Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. 12/2023. 

• Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Shenzhen, China. 12/2023.

• School of Management, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. 11/2023. 

• School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. 11/2023. 

• INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, USA. 10/2023.

• International Annual Conference of the Chinese Scholars Association for Management Science and Engineering, Shenzhen, China, 07/2023.

• Workshop of Operations Research and Artificial Intelligence, Yichang, China, 07/2023.

• POMS International Conference in China, Hangzhou, China, 07/2023.

• Institute of Supply Chain Analytics, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, Dalian, China. 05/2023.

• College of Finance and Statistics, Hunan University, Changsha, China. 05/2023.

• School of Management and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China. 05/2023.

• Institute of Statistics and Big Data, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China. 04/2023. 

• Sun Yat-sen Business School, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. 04/2023. 

• School of Economics and Management, Southeast University, Nanjing, China. 03/2023. (virtual)

• School of Business Administration, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. 03/2023. 

• National Conference on Supply Chain and Operation Management, Central South University, Changsha, China. 12/2022. (virtual)

• Business+ Young Scholar Forum, School of Management, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. 10/2022. (virtual)

• School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. 06/2022. (virtual)

• School of Management, Xian Jiaotong University, Xian, China. 05/2022. (virtual)

• School of Management and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China. 04/2022. (virtual)

• Center for Operational Research, Management Sciences and Information Systems, University of Southampton, United Kingdom. 02/2022. (virtual)

• The 22nd Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS). 08/2021. (virtual)

• School of Business Administration, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu, China. 07/2021. (virtual)

• Robust Optimization Webinar. 06/2021. (virtual)

• School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai, China. 05/2021. (virtual)

• Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management, Hong Kong Univerity of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China. 04/2021. (virtual)

• School of Management, Shandong University, Jinan, China. 12/2020. 

• INFORMS Annual Meeting. 11/2020. (virtual)

• Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. 11/2020. (virtual)

• Lingnan College, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. 10/2020. (virtual)

• Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. 10/2020. (virtual)

• Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University, Singapore. 10/2020. (virtual)

• School of Mathematical Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China. 06/2020. (virtual)

• Institute of Statistics and Big Data, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China. 05/2020. (virtual)

• Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. 01/2020.

• POMS-HK International Conference, Hong Kong, China. 01/2020.

• School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. 12/2019.

• The Sixth International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT), Berlin, Germany. 08/2019.

• Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Conference and SIG Meeting, Singapore. 07/2019.

• Kent Business School, University of Kent, United Kingdom. 05/2019.

• Department of Industrial Engineering & Decision Analytics, Hong Kong Univerity of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China. 02/2019.

• Innovation and Information Management, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. 01/2019.

• Department of Management Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China. 01/2019.

• Department of Management Sciences and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. 01/2019.

• POMS-HK International Conference, Hong Kong, China. 01/2019.

• Institute for Data and Decision Analytics, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China. 12/2018.

• INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, USA. 11/2018.

• The 23rd International Symposium on Optimization (ISMP), Bordeaux, France. 07/2018.

• Shanghai University International Forum for Young Scholars, Shanghai, China. 04/2018.

• Nicholson Student Paper Competition, Houston, USA. 10/2017.

• INFORMS Annual Meeting, Houston, USA. 10/2017.

• POMS-HK International Conference, Hong Kong, China. 01/2017.

• INFORMS Annual Meeting, Nashville, USA. 11/2016.

• The Fifth International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT), Tokyo, Japan. 08/2016.

• Joint workshop with DS at NUS and DSME at CUHK, Singapore. 05/2016.

• INFORMS Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, USA. 11/2015.

• The 22nd International Symposium on Optimization (ISMP), Pittsburgh, USA. 07/2015.

Professional Service

• Editorial Board Member

 --- Computers & Operations Research

• Ph.D. Supervisor for

 --- Jie Hu (Supervisor), 2021-Present.

 --- Haolin Ruan (Co-supervisor), 2020-Present.

 --- Wen Bai (Co-supervisor), 2020-Present.

• Ph.D. Examiner for

 --- Yao Yao (Tsinghua University), From Virtual to Reality: Automatic Control through Simulation, Optimization and Transfer, 2023.

 --- Ruobin Li (Tsinghua University), Dynamic Pricing and Inventory Control under Uncertain Environment, 2023.

 --- Peiwen Yu (City University of Hong Kong), Essays on Estimation Methods for Markov Decision Processes and Portfolio Optimization, 2022.

 --- Qi Liang (City University of Hong Kong), Upper Confidence Bounds: Methods for Order Statistics with Applications to Risk Measurement, 2022.

 --- Wenhao Li (City University of Hong Kong), Two Essays on Data-Driven Decision Making, 2021.

 --- Khaja Irfan Babu Soudagar Abdul (National University of Singapore), Data-Driven Robust Optimization of Facility Location and Routing Problems, 2021. 

• Reviewer for Journals

        --- Business: INFORMS Journal on Computing, Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Operations Research, Production and Operations Management.

        --- Optimization: Asian-Pacific Journal of Operational Research, Computers & Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research,  

               INFORMS Journal on Optimization, Journal of Global Optimization, Mathematics of Operations Research, Mathematical Programming, 

 Naval Research Logistics, Omega, Operations Research Letters, Optimization, Optimization Methods and Software, SIAM Journal on Optimization.

        --- Application: Applied Energy, Automatica, Risk Analysis, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Transportation Science.

• Reviewer for Conferences

  International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR 2024, 2023, 2022)  

  Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023, 2022, 2021)         

         International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023, 2022, 2020)

• Session Chair for 

         CSAMSE 2023

  IFORS 2020, 2017

         INFORMS Annual Meeting 2024, 2015

         ISMP 2024, 2015

         POMS-HK 2024, 2020

• Judge for

        Best Student Paper Competition, POMS-HK International Conference (2024, 2020)