Xian Yu joined the Department of Integrated Systems Engineering as an Assistant Professor in August 2022. Dr. 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. 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.