Background
EDUCATION
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Ph.D. in
Industrial and Engineering,
November 2005.
Department of Industrial Engineering,
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Advisor: Andrew Schaefer; co-Advisor:
Brady Hunsaker.
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M.Eng. in Operations Research, May
2000.
School
of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering,
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
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B.S. in Automation, June 1999.
Department of Automation,
Tsinghua University, Beijing,
China.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
University of South Florida, January 2006 -- present.
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Lecturer, Department of Industrial and
Management Systems Engineering,
University of South Florida, August
2005 -- December 2005.
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Graduate Research Assistant, Department
of Industrial Engineering,
University of Pittsburgh, August 2000
-- July 2005.
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Instructor, Department of Industrial
Engineering,
University of Pittsburgh, Summer and
Fall 2004.
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Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department
of Industrial Engineering,
University of Pittsburgh, August 2000
-- April 2004.
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Graduate Research Assistant, Department
of Textile and Apparel,
Cornell University, May 2000 -- August
2000.
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Graduate Teaching Assistant, School of
Operations Research and Industrial Engineering,
Cornell University, August 1999 -- May
2000.
PRE-GRADUATION RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
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Research Assistant: "Optimizing
the Regional Distribution of Organ Procurement Organizations," funded by
the National Science Foundation Grant DMI-0355433.
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Develop
a set-partitioning model for designing
the most efficient set of regions for the United States organ
transplantation and allocation system.
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Designed a branch-and-price algorithm to solve the resultant
large-scale combinatorial optimization problem, and implemented the
algorithm using COIN-OR BCP (Branch-Cut-Price).
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Validated the optimal regional configurations via an adopted
clinical-based discrete-event simulation.
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Guided
several undergraduate research assistants from Mathematics,
Industrial Engineering, and Computer Science in data analysis and
visualization that are related to the research.
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Research Assistant: "Stochastic
Integer Programming: A Superadditive Dual Approach," funded by the
University of Pittsburgh Central Research Development Fund.
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Developed a superadditive dual
algorithm for a class of large-scale stochastic integer programs.
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Other activities: developed a
constant factor approximation algorithm for a class of stochastic
combinatorial optimization problems and proved its complexity;
developed theory and algorithms for totally unimodular stochastic
programs.
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Research Project Team Member of
the Cornell University Robot Soccer Team.
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Worked in a multidisciplinary project, Cornell
Robocup, with approximately 20 master’s and senior undergraduate
students, majoring in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering,
Mechanical Engineering, and Operations Research and Industrial
Engineering, to design an autonomous robot soccer team.
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Developed the optimal trajectory control and designed
the microcontroller unit for the robots.
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Cornell won the
RoboCup 2000 F180 competition in Melbourne, Australia.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
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Instructor, Fall 2006.
Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, University
of South Florida.
ESI 4312: Deterministic Operations
Research.
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Instructor, Spring 2006.
Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, University
of South Florida.
EIN 6936: Nonlinear and Integer
Programming.
Average Student
Assessment of Instruction: 4.11 / 5.0.
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Instructor, Fall 2005.
Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, University
of South Florida.
ESI 4312: Deterministic Operations
Research.
Average Student
Assessment of Instruction: 4.65 / 5.0.
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Instructor, Fall 2004.
Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh.
ENGR 0020: Probability and Statistics
for Engineer I.
Effectiveness as a
Teacher: 2.9 / 5.0.
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Instructor, Summer 2004.
Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh.
IE 3095: Stochastic Programming.
Co-taught with Dr. Andrew Schaefer.
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Guest Lecturer, Department of
Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh.
IE 3088: Integer Programming; IE3051:
Combinatorial Optimization.
HONORS AND AWARDS
- Honorable
Mention, INFORMS
Dantzig Dissertation Award, 2006.
- Meritorious
Award, Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 2006. Coach of the USF Engineering
team.
- Selected
for Young Research Roundtable in
INFORMS Conference on O.R. Practice, 2006.
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Outstanding Research Assistant Award, College of Engineering, University of
Pittsburgh, 2005.
- Conference
Travel Scholarship, 10th International Conference on Stochastic
Programming, 2004.
- Selected for IIE New Faculty Colloquium,
2005.
- Selected
for INFORMS Doctoral Colloquium, 2004.
- Selected
for IIE Doctoral Colloquium, 2004.
- Conference
Travel Scholarship, 18th International Symposium on Mathematical
Programming, 2003.
- Champion
of RoboCup2000, the 2000 Robot Soccer World Cup, 2000. Team member.
JOURNAL REFEREE
- Operations Research
- Mathematical Programming
- Networks
- Asian Pacific Journal of Operations
Research
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Health Care Management Science
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
OTHER SYNERGETIC ACTIVITIES
- National
- Panelist for one National Science Foundation Operations Research
unsolicited proposal review panel.
- Panelist for one National Science Foundation Manufacturing Systems
Engineering unsolicited proposal review panel.
- Speaker at IIE Doctoral Colloquium,
2006.
- Judge for IIE Doctoral Colloquium Best
Poster, 2006.
- Reviewer for the 114th Annul
American Society for Engineering Education Conference, 2007.
- Reviewer for the 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for
Medical Decision Making, 2005.
- Editor for
INFORMS Student Union, 2004 – Present.
- University of South Florida
- Member of the USF College of
Engineering Computing Committee.
- Panelists for two USF Sponsored
Research Internal Awards proposal review panels.
- Coach of the USF College of Engineering
Mathematical Contest in Modeling Team, 2006 – 2007.