Scholar
Wotao Yin
Google Scholar ID: kpQGGFUAAAAJ
DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group US
Citations & Impact
Citations
22,477
H-index
67
i10-index
192
Publications
20
Co-authors
116
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Won the NSF CAREER award in 2008, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 2009, a Morningside Gold Medal in 2016, a DAMO Award in 2021, and INFORMS Egon Balas Prize in 2021. Eight papers co-authored with students and collaborators have received best-paper-kind awards. Has been among the top 1% cited researchers by Clarivate Analytics since 2018.
Research Experience
- Before joining Alibaba US in 2019, was a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles; worked with the Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics at Rice University from 2006 to 2013.
Education
- Received Ph.D. degree in operations research from Columbia University in 2006 under Prof. Donald Goldfarb.
Background
- Research interests include explainable and controllable decision models, computational optimization algorithms and software, and their applications in signal processing, machine learning, and other data science problems.
Miscellany
- Currently serves as the Director of the Decision Intelligence Lab at DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group.
