Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor of Operations Management of the Lee Kong Chian School of Business (LKCSB) at the Singapore Management University. My research aims to enable data-driven, socially responsible operations in public systems, from healthcare to criminal justice. Central to my research are tools from data analytics, stochastic modeling and control, and reinforcement learning. In particular, my work has focused on (i) designing models that encapsulate the dynamic nature of public service operations; (ii) developing actionable algorithms tailored to the decision problem’s structure. I also actively work with community partners, ensuring that my research is both grounded in practice and positioned for tangible implementation.
Before joining SMU, I earned my Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University in 2024, advised by Prof. Nan Kong, Prof. Pengyi Shi, and Prof. Paul M. Griffin. Prior to that, I received my bachelor’s degree in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from Peking University in 2019.