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Research

How Not to Overpackage: AI for Sustainability in HelloFresh's Service Supply Chain.
Runner-Up for the 2025 INFORMS Service Science Best Paper Award (Socially Responsible Track).
Finalist for the 2026 INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group Paper Competition. Winners to be announced in November, 2026.
Accepted at 2026 MSOM Conference SIG Day (Sustainable Operations).

Preprint

Efficient Cloud Server Deployment Under Demand Uncertainty.
Published in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 27(2), 2025. pp. 425-440.

Publication

Bandits Atop Reinforcement Learning: Tackling Online Inventory Models With Cyclic Demands.
Published in Management Science, 70(9), 2024. pp. 5627-6482.
Honorable Mention for the 2025 INFORMS Computing Society Harvey J. Greenberg Award.

Publication

Online Assortment Optimization with Reusable Resources.
Published in Management Science, 68(7), 2022. pp. 4772-4785.
Spotlight Talk at the 2021 INFORMS Revenue Management & Pricing Section Conference.

Publication

Asymptotically Optimal Pure Exploration for Infinite-Armed Bandits.
Accepted at Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS).

Proceedings ArXiv

A Fast Maximum Flow Algorithm.
Published in Networks, Nov 2020.
Published in Special Issue on Celebrating 50 Years of Networks: Part 2.

Publication

Provably More Efficient Q-Learning in the One-Sided-Feedback/Full-Feedback Settings.
Accepted in ICML Workshop (Theoretical Foundations of Reinforcement Learning), July 17, 2020.

Website

Efficient Entropy For Policy Gradient with Multi-Dimensional Action Space.
Accepted in ICLR Workshop.

Website

Select Talks

Boston University's Questrom School of Business
March 6, 2025 How Not to Overpackage: AI for Sustainability in HelloFresh's Service Supply Chain.
Purdue Operations Conference
August 25, 2024 How Not to Overpackage? -- AI for Sustainability in HelloFresh's Service Supply Chain.
Tsinghua University Economics and Management Seminar
August 2, 2024 How Not to Overpackage? -- AI for Sustainability in HelloFresh's Service Supply Chain.
Lyft Rideshare Seminar
June 6, 2024 How Not to Overpackage? -- AI for Sustainability in HelloFresh's Service Supply Chain.
Duke University Fuqua Operations Management Seminar
Apr 12, 2024 How Not to Overpackage? -- Towards a Sustainable HelloFresh Service Supply Chain.
CMU SQUALL Seminar
Apr 8, 2024 How Not to Overpackage? -- Towards a Sustainable HelloFresh Service Supply Chain.
YinzOR 2023 Conference
Aug 26, 2023 Provably Optimal Reinforcement Learning for Inventory Problems with Unknown Cyclic Demands
Supply Chain Management in the Post-Pandemic and AI Age Conference
Jun 13, 2023 Data-Driven Decision Making in Operations Management
University of Toronto Rotman OM&S Data Science Seminar
Apr 29, 2023 Bandits Atop Reinforcement Learning: Tackling Online Inventory Models With Cyclic Demands
Wharton OID Seminar
Mar 18, 2022 Bandits Atop Reinforcement Learning: Tackling Online Inventory Models With Cyclic Demands
MIT Data Science Lab Seminar
Oct 18, 2021 Bandits Atop Reinforcement Learning: Tackling Online Inventory Models With Cyclic Demands
MIT ORC Student Seminar
Sep 24, 2021 Provably Optimal Reinforcement Learning for Online Inventory Models With Cyclic Demands
Google Intern Research Talks
Jul 22, 2021 Provably Optimal Reinforcement Learning for Online Inventory Models With Cyclic Demands
Spotlight Session at INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Conference
Jun 30, 2021 Online Assortment Optimization with Reusable Resources
MIT LIDS & Stats Tea Talk
Apr 28, 2021 Provably More Efficient Q-Learning in the One-Sided-Feedback/Full-Feedback Settings

Services

Reviewer for Management Science, Operations Research, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Mathematics of Operations Research and others.

Reviewer for NeurIPS 2026, 2025.

Reviewer for INFORMS MSOM SIG Conference 2026, 2025, 2024.

Reviewer for 2026 INFORMS MSOM Conference.

Reviewer for the 26th Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization (IPCO 2025).

Reviewer for 2026 INFORMS Public Sector Operations Research Best Paper Award.

Committee Member for 2025 INFORMS Public Sector Operations Research Best Paper Award.

Committee Member for 2024 INFORMS Service Science Best Student Paper Award.

Judge for 2024 CSAMSE Best Paper Competition.

Session Chair for INFORMS Annual Meeting 2024.

Session Chair for INFORMS Annual Meeting 2023.

Session Chair for INFORMS Annual Meeting 2021.