EXPERIENCE

Meta Platforms, Inc.

Operations Research Data Science Intern, 2022/05 - 2022/08

  • Conduct large-scale optimization for data infrastructure operations.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

Intern, Research Assistant, 2017/07 - 2017/09, advised by Professor Yanfeng Ouyang

  • Proposed a new rebalancing strategy for the one-way carsharing system by using buses to transport rebalancing staffs.

  • Used Continuum Approximation framework to model the dynamic bus routing problem for rebalancing strategy.

EDUCATION

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Ph.D. in Transportation, 5.0/5.0, 2019/09 - present

  • COURSE WORK:

    • OPTIMIZATION: 6.251 Introduction to Mathematical Programming (A+), 6.252 Nonlinear Optimization, 15.094 Robust Modeling, Optimization & Computation, 15.083 Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization

    • MACHINE LEARNING: 6.867 Machine Learning, 15.095 Machine Learning under Modern Optimization Lens, 1.267 Statistical Learning in Operations

    • TRANSPORTATION: 1.200 Transportation Systems Analysis, 1.205 Advanced Demandd Modeling, 1.208 Resilient Networks

    • MATHEMATICS: 1.203 Applied Probability & Stochatics Models, 6.436 Fundamentals of Probability

  • RESEARCH SUMMARY:

    • Robust shared mobility operations (matching & rebalancing) considering demand and travel time uncertainty

    • Robust public transit network design and dynamic transit assignment

    • Bus performance evaluation and visualization

    • Joint system design of public transit system and shared mobility system

    • Integration of people and freight mobility

  • HONOR:

    • Runner Up Award (2nd Place), Amazon Last-Mile Routing Research Challenge. [Amazon Science] [MIT News]

    • Finalist, 2021 TRB Innovations in Transit Performance Measurement Challenge.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY

M.S., Transportation Systems Engineering, 4.1/4.0, 2017/09 - 2019/05

  • COURSE WORK:

    • OPERATION RESEARCH : Transportation Systems & Network, Computational Optimization, Optimization, Design of Online Marketplaces

    • COMPUTER SCIENCE : Analysis of Algorithms, The Structure of Info Networks, Objective-Oriented Programming & Data Structure

  • TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

    • Introduction Analysis of Algorithms : 2018 Spring with Professor Robert Kleinberg

    • Uncertainty Analysis in Engineering : 2018 Fall with Professor Jery Stedinger

  • RESEARCH SUMMARY:

    • Solved school bus routing problem via a compressed shareability network framework.

    • Proposed Column Generation method to solve the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Window (VRP-TW).

TONGJI UNIVERSITY

B.S., Transporation Engineering, 90.0/100.0, 2013/09 - 2017/07

  • COURSE WORK:

    • MATHEMATICS : Calculus, Linear Algebra, Probability and Statistics

    • PROGRAMMING : Fundamentals of Programming, CAD Technology

    • TRANSPORTATION : Transportation Planning, Passenger Transport System, Transport Economics, Freight Transportation System, Traffic Design, Traffic Management and Control, Traffic Simulation Technology, Traffic Safety Engineering

  • RESEARCH SUMMARY:

    • Designed user-based rebalancing strategies for the one-way carsharing system.

    • Implemented user-based rebalancing strategies within an app named "TJ-Share".

  • HONOR:

    • National Scholarship, Tongji University, 2016.

    • Scholarship for Academic Excellence, Tongji University, 2014, 2015.

    • First Prize, 15th Tongji Transport Science and Technology Competition , 2016.

    • Second Prize, 11th National Competition of Transport Science and Technology, 2016.