Finalist in the 2025 INFORMS Quality Statistics and Reliability (QSR) Best Paper Competition; Organizing the 20th INFORMS Workshop on Data Mining and Decision Analytics in 2025; Received the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Duke ECE department in 2025; Runner-up in the 2024 INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) Student Paper Award; Runner-up in the 2024 INFORMS Data Mining and Data Analysis (DMDA) Workshop Best Theoretical Paper; Second place in the 2023 Bell Labs Prize.
Research Experience
Currently an assistant research professor (postdoc) at the Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society (CDSES) at Cornell University, hosted by Professors Andrea Lodi and Soroosh Shafiee.
Education
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Duke University in 2024, advised by Professor Cynthia Rudin; B.S. degree with double majors in physics and mathematics and a minor in computer science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2018.
Background
Research Interests: Building interpretable, trustworthy, and human-centered ML/AI systems for high-stakes applications such as healthcare and scientific discovery. Professional Area: Developing efficient and scalable optimization algorithms that solve challenging nonconvex and combinatorial problems at the intersection of discrete and continuous optimization.