ISE welcomes Xian Yu as new Assistant Professor in Operations Research

Xian Yu has joined the Department of Integrated Systems Engineering as an Assistant Professor in the area of Operations Research in August 2022.

Background:

Xian Yu received her B.S. degree in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, in 2017. She earned her Ph.D. degree in Operations Research from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2022. She has also interned at Amazon and Acadian Asset Management and collaborated with Ford Motor Company on mobility-related projects.

Research:

Her research interest lies in sequential decision-making and optimization under uncertainty, with applications in transportation, logistics, and supply chain management. Her research aims to bridge theories in stochastic integer programming, distributionally robust optimization, and dynamic programming, as well as to develop efficient algorithms for solving large-scale complex optimization problems.