Hello, welcome to my website! 😀
I am a final-year Ph.D. student in Management Science at Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, under the supervision of Prof. Steven Shechter. I received my M.A. in Applied Mathematics from University of Pennsylvania and my B.S. in Statistics from Xi’an Jiaotong University.
I am interested in applying optimization and data-driven methods to solve problems in healthcare operations. My current research focuses on preventive healthcare, including optimizing vaccination schedules to reduce infection risk and designing peer-based competitions in fitness platforms to promote healthy behavior.
I am on the 2025-2026 academic job market. I will present my job market paper at
- INFORMS Annual Meeting 2025, Atlanta
- October 26, 3:39 pm - 3:57 pm, Building A Level 3 A313, Job Market Showcase Session (Session title: Inference and Resource Allocation in Healthcare Systems)
Publication
- with Steven Shechter, “Mass vaccination scheduling: Trading off infections, throughput, and overtime.” (2024) Accepted at Management Science.
Working Papers
with Steven Shechter, “Optimizing peer matching for performance improvement.”
with Steven Shechter, Mark Canney, Sean Barbour, “Optimizing corticosteroid treatment in IgA nephropathy.”
Teaching
- Instructor, UBC Sauder
- COMM 204 Operations & Logistics (Summer 2024, Spring 2026)
- Teaching assistant, UBC Sauder
- BAMS 506/508 Optimal Decision Making I/II, master (Fall 2022-2025)
- BAMS 523 Managerial Decision Modeling and Analytics, MBA (Fall 2023-2024)
- BAMS 517 Decision Analysis Under Uncertainty, master (Fall 2024)
- BASC 550 Operations, master (Fall 2024)
- COMR 398 Introduction to Business Processes and Operations, undergraduate (Summer 2025)