Ph.D. Students
Sina Aghaei
Advisor: Phebe Vayanos
Research Interest: Fair machine learning and its application in decision making in socially sensitive settings
Email: saghaei@usc.edu
Ahmed Alzanki
Advisor: Ali Abbas
Research Interest: Decision analysis, multi-attribute utility theory, and data-based decision making
Email: alzanki@usc.edu
Negin Ashrafi
Advisor: Phebe Vayanos
Research Interest: Machine Learning, Optimization, Fairness in AI
Email: ashrafin@usc.edu
Sina Baharlouei
Advisor: Meisam Razaviyayn
Research Interest: Large-scale Optimization, Statistical Learning
Email: baharlou@usc.edu
Adhithya Bhashkar
Advisor: Victoria Stodden
Research Interest: Computational reproducibility, Machine learning
Email: adhithya@usc.edu
Soobin Choi
Advisor: Andres Gomez
Research Interest: Optimization, Operations Research
Email: soobinch@usc.edu
Peng Dai
Advisor: Sze-Chuan Suen
Research Interest: Applications of Operation Research to Healthcare Problems
Email: pengdai@usc.edu
Rumeysa Dagsoy
Advisor: Ali Abbas
Research Interest: Decision Analysis, Operation Research
Email: dagsoy@usc.edu
Ali Ghafelebashi
Advisor: Meisam Razaviyayn
Research Interest: The intersection of large-scale optimization and transportation. I am also interested in machine learning and deep learning.
Email: ghafeleb@usc.edu
Minghao (Gabriel) Gu
Advisor: Qiang Huang
Research Interest: Machine Learning for Additive Manufacturing
Email: minghaog@usc.edu
Wei Gu
Advisor: Maged Dessouky
Research Interest: Dynamic Traffic Equilibria with Shared Mobility Services
Email: weig@usc.edu
Yinbin Han,
Advisor: Meisam Razaviyayn
Research Interest: Reinforcement Learning, Stochastic Control, Nonconvex Optimization
Email: yinbinha@usc.edu
Jiyang He
Advisor: Julie Higle
Research Interest: Healthcare Policy & Operations
Email: jiyanghe@usc.edu
Ziyu He
Advisor: Jong-Shi Pang
Research Interest: Nonconvex optimization with applications in statistics
Email: ziyuhe@usc.edu
Qing Jin
Advisor: Phebe Vayanos
Research Interest: Robust optimization, distributionally robust optimization with application for social good
Email: qingjin@usc.edu
Caroline Johnston
Advisor: Phebe Vayanos
Research Interest: Robust Optimization, Fairness in AI
Email: cmjohnst@usc.edu
Han Kyul Kim
Advisor: Qiang Huang, Stephen Lu
Research Interest: Machine Learning, Data Mining
Email: hankyulk@usc.edu
Citina Liang
Advisor: Sze-Chuan Suen
Research Interest: Infectious disease control
Email: citinal@usc.edu
Weizhi Lin
Advisor: Qiang Huang
Research Interest: Shape Deviation Analysis for Additive Manufacturing; Data Science for Engineering Applications (e.g., Manufacturing and Healthcare Systems)
Email: weizhili@usc.edu
Peijing Liu
Advisor: Andres Gomez
Research Interest: Explore faster and more precise algorithms to solve mixed integer quadratic optimization problems with sparse matrices
Email: peijingl@usc.edu
Xiaocheng Liu
Advisor: Petros Ioannou
Research Interest: Transportation Systems
Email: xiaocheng.liu@usc.edu
Mingdong Lyu
Advisor: Randolph Hall
Research Interest: Infectious disease modeling and forecasting
Email: mingdonl@usc.edu
Zuhayer Mahtab
Advisor: Maged Dessouky
Research Interest: Transportation Systems
Email: mahtab@usc.edu
Mohammadmehdi Naghiaei
Advisor: Ali Abbas
Research Interest: Applied statistics, Decision theory, Recommender systems
Email: naghiaei@usc.edu
Ying Peng
Advisor: John Carlsson
Research Interest: Combinatorial optimization problem
Email: yingpeng@usc.edu
Ke Shen
Advisor: Mayank Kekriwal
Research Interest: Machine Commonsense & Fairness in NLP
Email: keshen@isi.edu
Shannon Siojo-Sweitzer
Advisor: John Carlsson
Research Interest: Topological Data Analysis and Optimization
Email: sweitzer@usc.edu
Qingshi Sun
Advisor: Phebe Vayanos
Research Interest: Optimization, machine learning, reinforcement learning, and applications to social good
Email: qingshis@usc.edu
Bill Tang
Advisor: Phebe Vayanos
Research Interest: Optimization, Causal Inference
Email: yongpeng@usc.edu
Siyuan Yao
Advisor: Maged Dessouky
Research Interest: Advanced Transportation System Modeling, Optimization of Drayage Operations
Email: siyuanya@usc.edu
Yingxiao Ye
Advisor: Phebe Vayanos
Research Interest: Robust Optimization and Machine Learning
Email: yingxiao.ye@usc.edu
Yue (Julien) Yu
Advisor: John Carlsson
Research Interest: Combinatorial Optimization, Transportation & Logistics
Email: yyu56253@usc.edu
Suyanpeng Zhang
Advisor: Sze-Chuan Suen
Research Interest: Health policy modeling, optimization
Email: suyanpen@usc.edu
Xinyao Zhang
Advisor: Jong-Shi Pang
Research Interest: Mathematical Modeling, Optimization, Operations Research
Email: xinyaoz@usc.edu
Tianchi Zhao
Advisor: Sheldon Ross
Research Interest: Applied Probability Models
Email: tianchiz@usc.edu
Wentao Zhao
Advisor: Maged Dessouky
Research Interest: Relocation Strategy for Shared Mobility
Email: wzhao009@usc.edu
Published on November 14th, 2021
Last updated on March 22nd, 2023