Meet our incoming PhD students: Autumn 2023
Management Science and Engineering is excited to welcome all of our incoming students as we begin the academic year!
As they arrived on campus, we had the pleasure of meeting some of our vibrant, diverse, and talented 2023 PhD cohort. Their research touches on MS&E's four research themes: AI & data science, computational social science, the future of organizing, and impacting policy decisions (read more about the themes in our Newsletter). The students bring expertise and an interdisciplinary spirit from a variety of fields, such as financial engineering, operations research, responsible engineering, computer science, decision analysis, and more.
Get to know some of our newest PhD students below:
Kiana Asgari
Hometown: Iran
Alma Mater: Sharif University of Technology
Kiana hopes to encourage women in computation to pursue their dreams in academia.

Andrew Couch
Hometown: Huntsville, Alabama
Almae matres: University of Alabama in Huntsville; Thomas Edison State University
Andrew is motivated by using research to advance society and help everyday individuals.

Brian Lattimore
Hometown: Chicago, Illinois
Almae matres: Northern Illinois University; University of California, San Diego
Brian aspires to help organizations foster equitable access to opportunities and resources while they adapt to a constantly evolving technological landscape.

Yuewei Ling
Hometown: Hangzhou, China
Alma mater: Sichuan University
Yuewei plans to utilize modeling to refine policy design and ultimately help health care systems adapt to the many challenges they face.

Miao Lu
Hometown: Yangzhou, China
Alma mater: University of Science and Technology of China
Miao's goal is to address real-world challenges by exploring and innovating on modern statistics and machine learning methods for data-driven decision making.

Ivan-Aleksandar Mavrov
Hometown: Sofia, Bulgaria
Alma mater: Duke University
Ivan-Aleksandar's research path aims to uplift the living standard in society through the advancement of computational and game theoretical methods.

Devesh Narayanan
Hometown: Pune, India
Alma mater: National University of Singapore
Devesh aims to illuminate pathways for moving us towards desirable futures of work through his research.

Shayan Talaei
Hometown: Iran
Alma Mater: Sharif University of Technology
Shayan is excited to unlock the full potential of AI in real-world applications.

Sean Tsung
Hometown: Hong Kong
Alma mater: University of California, Berkeley
Sean hopes to make a tangible impact on healthcare by applying machine learning, optimization, and analytics methodologies.

Wenqian Xing
Hometown: Shanghai, China
Almae matres: Columbia University; Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Wenqian looks forward to designing novel algorithms in optimization research and bridging the gap between theoretical optimization and practical problem-solving in the real world.
