Recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2024), JP Morgan Faculty Research Award (2021), Google Systems Research Award (2020), UIUC CSL PhD Thesis Award (2017), and the best paper award from IFIP Performance Conference (2011). Named a Notable Woman in Reinforcement Learning (2024).
Research Experience
Was a visiting assistant professor at the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering (ORIE) at Cornell University; postdoctoral researcher with LIDS at MIT; research fellow at the Simons Institute.
Education
Ph.D. in Electrical and Computing Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign; B.E. in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University.
Background
Research interests: reinforcement learning, game theory, applied probability and stochastic networks, with applications to computer and communication networks. Brief introduction: Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) and an affiliate of the Computer Sciences (CS) department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Miscellany
Recruiting PhD students starting 2026. Co-organizing the NeurIPS 2025 workshop: ML x OR - Mathematical Foundations and Operational Integration of Machine Learning for Uncertainty-Aware Decision-Making.