- 2017 Young Researchers Prize by INFORMS Optimization Society
- 2023 INFORMS Computing Society (ICS) prize by INFORMS Computing Society
- Research funded by NSF, DOE, AFOSR, and ONR
- Associate editor for Mathematical Programming Computation and Journal of Global Optimization
Research Experience
- Assistant Professor in the Operations Research and Industrial Engineering Program at the University of Texas at Austin (August 2014 to August 2016)
- Research Scientist at the Department of Business Analytics and Mathematical Sciences at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
- Visiting Assistant Professor at the Management Science & Information Systems department at Rutgers Business School
- Associate Professor in the department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Lehigh University
Education
PhD, 2012, Carnegie Mellon University, under the supervision of Professor Nick Sahinidis
Background
Research interests: advancing the state-of-the-art in Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization (MINLP) at theoretical, algorithmic, and software levels; interested in developing efficient optimization algorithms with performance guarantees for data science applications. Professional areas: convex analysis and optimization, integer programming and combinatorial optimization, high dimensional probability.