Ph.D. Students
Minoo Ahmadi
Shahriar Tanvir Alam
Advisor: Maged Dessouky
Research Interest: Transportation Systems, Operations Research
Email: alams@usc.edu
Jialu Bao
Advisor: Giacomo Nannicini
Research Interest: Theoretical&Computational Mixed Interger Optimization, Stochastic Optimization
Email: jialubao@usc.edu
Adhithya Bhashkar
Advisor: Victoria Stodden
Research Interest: Computational reproducibility, Machine learning
Email: adhithya@usc.edu
Yiwen Cao
Advisor: Sze-Chuan Suen
Research Interest: Healthcare Modeling, Machine Learning, Cost-effectiveness Analysis, Markov Decision Process
Email: ycao0253@usc.edu
Soobin Choi
Advisor: Andres Gomez
Research Interest: Mixed Integer Optimization, Conic Optimization, Machine Learning
Email: soobinch@usc.edu
Rumeysa Dagsoy
Advisor: Ali Abbas
Research Interest: Decision Analysis, Multiattribute Utility Theory
Email: dagsoy@usc.edu
Shijie Gao
Advisor: Sheldon Ross & John Carlsson
Research Interest: Large-scale Optimization, Applied probability model, Probability Theory and Combinatorial Optimization, TSP
Email: shijiega@usc.edu
Ali Ghafelebashi
Advisor: Meisam Razaviyayn
Research Interest: Large-scale Optimization, Machine Learning, Transportation, Differential Privacy
Email: ghafeleb@usc.edu
Henry Graven
Advisor: Giacomo Nannicini
Research Interest: Algorithms for Quantum Computing
Minghao (Gabriel) Gu
Advisor: Qiang Huang
Research Interest: Domain-informed machine learning, Quality control for AM, Functional data analysis
Email: minghaog@usc.edu
Wei Gu
Advisor: Maged Dessouky
Research Interest: Game Theory and Optimization with Applications in Sustainable and Emerging Mobility Transportation Systems
Email: weig@usc.edu
Jiyang He
Advisor: Shinyi Wu
Research Interest: Healthcare decision-making and policy
Email: jiyanghe@usc.edu
Christopher Henson
Jiaxin (Lesley) Hou
Advisor: Jong-Shi Pang
Research Interest: Operations Research, Optimization, Game Theory
Email: jiaxinho@usc.edu
Tianjian Huang
Advisor: Meisam Razaviyayn
Research Interest: Large-scale Optimization, Deep Learning, Responsible AI, Foundation Models
Email: tianjian@usc.edu
Yuxin (Rhea) Huang
Advisor: Giacomo Nannicini
Research Interest: Quantum Optimization
Email: yhuang44@usc.edu
Jing (Jennie) Jin
Advisor: Sze-chuan Suen
Research Interest: Healthare Decesion Modeling, Data Mining, Optimization
Email: jinjing@usc.edu
Caroline Johnston
Advisor: Phebe Vayanos
Research Interest: Value Alignment, Participatory AI, Robust Optimization, Fairness in AI
Email: cmjohnst@usc.edu
Tanvir Ibna Kaisar
Advisor: Maged Dessouky
Research Interest: Operations Research, Data Science, Machine Learning
Email: kaisar@usc.edu
Han Kyul Kim
Advisor: Stephen Lu
Research Interest: Learning Analytics, Machine Learning, Data Mining
Email: hankyulk@usc.edu
Soochan Kim
Advisor: Randolph Hall
Research Interest: Military Operations Research
Email: soochank@usc.edu
Nguyen Ngoc Tram Le
Advisor: Jong-Shi Pang
Research Interest: Operations Research, Optimization
Email: nle53475@usc.edu
Zeman Li
Advisor: Meisam Razaviyayn
Research Interest: Large-scale Optimization, Foundation Models, Differential Privacy
Email: zemanli@usc.edu
Zhiwei (Vivi) Li
Advisor: Carl Kesselman
Research Interest: Healthcare, ML Reproducibility, Database
Email: lizhiwei@usc.edu
Citina Liang
Advisor: Sze-Chuan Suen
Research Interest: Healthcare, Simulation, Machine learning
Email: citinal@usc.edu
Weizhi Lin
Advisor: Qiang Huang
Research Interest: Domain-Informed Machine Learning, Surface Manifold Data, Functional Data Analysis
Email: weizhili@usc.edu
Peijing Liu
Advisor: Andres Gomez
Research Interest: Mixed Integer Optimization, Quatratic Optimization, Machine Learning
Email: peijingl@usc.edu
Xiaocheng Liu
Advisor: Petros Ioannou & Maged Dessouky
Research Interest: Transportation, Simulation-based Optimization
Email: xiaocheng.liu@usc.edu
Zuhayer Mahtab
Advisor: Maged Dessouky
Research Interest: Operations Research, Transportation Systems
Email: mahtab@usc.edu
Jinghong Miao
Advisor: Sze-chuan Suen
Research Interest: Healthcare, Optimization
Email: miaojing@usc.edu
Mohammadmehdi Naghiaei
Advisor: Ali Abbas
Research Interest: Applied statistics, Decision theory, Recommender systems
Email: naghiaei@usc.edu
Yulin PENG
Ibrahim Raji
Advisor: Ali Abbas
Research Interest: Decision Analysis, Utility Elicitation
Email:raji@usc.edu
Rohit Ramachandran
Advisor: Abigail Horn
Research Interest: Public Health, Network Science, Resource Allocation
Email: rohitr@usc.edu
Aleyeh Roknaldin
Advisor: Detlof Von Winterfeldt & Stephen Lu
Research Interest: Decision Analytics, Learning and Education Analytics
Email: roknaldi@usc.edu
Ke Shen
Advisor: Mayank Kekriwal
Research Interest: LLM & Commonsense reasoning & Knowledge graph & Neuro-symbolic AI
Email: keshen@isi.edu
Mattia Solla Saez
Advisor: Johannes Royset
Research Interest: Stochastic Optimization, Decision Rules
Email: sollasae@usc.edu
Jad Soucar
Research Interest: Robust Optimization, Mean Field Games, Stochastic Control
Email: soucar@usc.edu
Qingshi Sun
Advisor: Phebe Vayanos
Research Interest: Robust Optimization, Interpretable Machine Learning
Email: qingshis@usc.edu
Yidan Sun
Advisor: Mayank Kejriwal
Research Interest: Complex systems, Network science, Computational social science
Email: yidans@usc.edu
Bill Tang
Advisor: Phebe Vayanos
Research Interest: Offline policy learning for scarce resource allocation, decision-aware learning
Email: yongpeng@usc.edu
Zhisheng (Jason) Tang
Advisor: Mayank Kejriwal
Research Interest: LLM & rational decision making & efficient large-scale knowledge graph construction
Email: zhisheng@usc.edu
Mingxi (Charles) Wang
Advisor: John Carlsson
Research Interest: Combinatorial Optimization, Graph Theory
Email: mingxiwa@usc.edu
Peng Wang
Advisor: Qiang Huang
Research Interest: Engineering-Informed Data Analytics; Design of Experiments
Email: pwang341@usc.edu
Zhengqi Wu
Advisor: Karthyek Murthy
Research Interest: Sequential Decision Making
Email: zhengqiw@usc.edu
Nana Xia
Advisor: Sze-chuan Suen
Research Interest: Operations Research, Optimization, Healthcare
Email: nanaxia@usc.edu
Shiya Xiao
Advisor: John Carlsson
Research Interest: Optimization, Machine Learning
Email: shiyaxia@usc.edu
Ke Xu
Advisor: John Carlsson
Research Interest: Optimization, Transportation
Email: kxu77173@usc.edu
Yingxiao Ye
Advisor: Phebe Vayanos
Research Interest: Optimization under uncertainty, optimization for machine learning
Email: yingxiao.ye@usc.edu
Mumin Zhang
Advisor: Qiang Huang
Research Interest: Interpretable Machine Learning for Additive Manufacturing; Data Analytics for Engineering Applications
Email: muminzha@usc.edu
Xinyao Zhang
Advisor: Jong-Shi Pang
Research Interest: Optimization, Operations Research, Machine Learning
Email: xinyaoz@usc.edu
Yihang Zhang
Advisor: Suvrajeet Sen
Research Interest: Operation Research, Online Optimization
Zexi Zhang
Advisor: Sheldon Ross
Research Interest: stochastic control, financial mathematics
Email: zexizhan@usc.edu
Tianchi Zhao
Advisor: Sheldon Ross
Research Interest: Applied Probability Models
Email: tianchiz@usc.edu
Wentao Zhao
Advisor: Maged Dessouky
Research Interest: Sequential decision making in transportation
Email: wzhao009@usc.edu
Yantong (Yanny) Zheng
Advisor: Victoria Stodden
Research Interest: Reproducibility, Statistical Machine Learning, Human Factors.
Email: yantongz@usc.edu
Jiayi Zhu
Advisor: John Carlsson
Research Interest: Optimization, Supply chain
Email: jzhu9152@usc.edu