Siqi Zhang - Biography

Employment

• Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track), 2024.10 – Present

  • Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM)

  • School of Management and Engineering (SME)

  • Nanjing University (NJU)

• Rufus Isaacs Postdoctoral Fellow, 2022.07 – 2024.07

  • Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics (AMS)

  • Whiting School of Engineering (WSE)

  • Johns Hopkins University (JHU)

Education

• Ph.D. in Operation Research, 2017.08 – 2022.06

  • Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering (ISE)

  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)

  • Supervisor: Prof. Niao He

• Visiting Ph.D. Student (Academic Guest), 2021.08 – 2022.05

  • Optimization & Decision Intelligence Group (ODI)

  • Department of Computer Science (D-INFK)

  • ETH Zurich

• B.S. in Mathematics, 2013.09 – 2017.07

  • Department of Mathematics

  • Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech, former name SUSTC)

Research Experiences

• Research Assistant, 2017.09 – 2022.05

  • Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering (ISE), UIUC

  • Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL), UIUC

• Research Intern, 2021.05 – 2021.08

  • Data Analytics Group, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL)

  • Supervisor: Dr. Mouhacine Benosman

• Research Intern (Visiting Student), 2016.07 – 2016.08

  • Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering (CMSE), Michigan State University (MSU)

  • Supervisor: Prof. Ming Yan, also I worked closely with Prof. Jiayu Zhou.

Academic Service

• Conference reviewer: NeurIPS, AAAI, ICLR, ICML, AISTATS

• Journal reviewer: SIOPT, MP, JMLR, TMLR, Optimization, Scientific Reports

Selected Awards

• Acheson J. Duncan Fund for the Advancement of Research in Statistics, JHU, 2024.03

• Top Reviewer of NeurIPS 2022, 2022.10

• “Yu Qian” Scholarship, Department of Mathematics, SUSTech, 2016.05

• Meritorious Winner, Interdisciplinary Contest In Modeling (MCM/ICM 2016), 2016.04