students

Current Students and Alumni

I have been privileged and fortunate to have worked with very talented and amazing students. It has been truly enjoyable to have our career paths cross.

PhD advisees

  • Kenneth Chen (M.S. at University of Chicago), Starting Sep. 2026

  • Jingqi Fan (co-advised with Prof. Mohammad Hajiesmaili at CICS, B.S. at Northeastern University), Starting Sep. 2026

  • Zirui Liu (co-advised with Prof. Shiqing Ma at CICS, M.S. at University of California Irvine), Sep. 2025 - Present

  • Bingnan Huo (M.S. at Brown University), Sep. 2025 - Present

PhD student collaborators

  • Changkun Guan, Industrial Engineering, Georgia Tech

  • Chengyu Du, Biostatistics, UMass Amherst

  • Amirmahdi Mirfakhar, Computer Science, UMass Amherst

  • Fatemeh Ghaffari, Computer Science, UMass Amherst

  • Wei Shen, Computer Science, University of Virginia

  • Yaxiang Zhang, Statistics, National University of Singapore

Undergraduate advisees

  • Jingyuan Liu (at Nanjing University), Oct. 2024 - Present, Next Position: Graduate student in Operations Research at UC Berkeley

  • John Wang (at UMass Amherst), Sept. 2025 - Present, Next Position: Graduate student in Computer Science at UMass Amherst

  • Jose (at UMass Amherst), Jan. 2025 - July 2025, Next Position: Graduate student in Computer Science at UMass Amherst

  • Jingshuai Zhang (at University of Minnesota), Sep. 2024 - July 2025, Next Position: Graduate student in Computer Science at UPenn

  • Jessica Lanin (at Northwestern), Spring 2023

  • Alejandra Bustamante (at Northwestern), Spring 2023

  • Tom Muma Ratemo (at Northwestern), Spring 2023

  • Tyler Shannon (at Northwestern), Spring 2023

Konyin Rilwan Okubadejo (at Northwestern), Spring 2023