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Meet our incoming PhD students: Autumn 2024

Get to know some of our newest students as they embark on their MS&E careers.

Management Science and Engineering welcomes 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 and talented 2024 PhD cohort. The students bring expertise and an interdisciplinary spirit from a variety of fields, such as financial engineering, operations research, mathematics, computer science, and more.

Get to know some of our newest PhD students below:

Yikai Cao

Hometown: Yantai, China
Alma Mater: Tsinghua University

Yikai's research aims to help policymakers make well-informed and sound decisions. 

Get to know Yikai

Andrew Caosun

Hometown: Pittsburgh and New York City
Alma Mater: Carnegie Mellon University

Andrew aims to develop models that inform the deployment and regulation of AI systems within financial institutions.

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Xin Chen

Hometown: Shanghai, China
Alma Mater: UC Berkeley

Xin aims to make socially relevant contributions through the study of market design and data science.

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Vinh Khang Do

Hometown: Saigon, Vietnam
Alma Maters: West Point, Yale University

Vinh Khang's research explores and quantifies the impact of large language models on online engagement.

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Chris Dylewski

Hometown: Colorado Springs, Colorado
Alma Maters: US Air Force Academy, Harvard University

Chris explores the science of organizational design, specifically when military organizations develop and deploy cutting-edge software tools.

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Johannes Fuest

Hometown: Munic, Cologne, Oxford, and Heidelberg
Alma Maters: University of Oxford, Technical University of Munich

Johannes aims to advance the usage of causal inference in quantitative finance contexts.

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Varun Gande

Hometown: Dallas, Texas
Alma Mater: Cornell University

Varun studies optimization and modeling in large-scale systems, especially in uncertain or stochastic environments and in applicable domains such as public health.

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Cuehyon Kim

Hometown: Seoul, Korea
Alma Mater: Yonsei University

Cuehyon's research explores the complex interactions between emerging technologies, firm strategies, and policy interventions, and ultimately help guide technology ventures toward sustainable and impactful growth in various global contexts.

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Victoria Li

Hometown: Changsha, China
Alma Maters: UCLA, Stanford University

Victoria aims to provide practical solutions to the world of engineering risk.

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Elaine Liu

Hometown: China and Canada
Alma Mater: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Elaine studies the mathematical foundations of tangible networked systems.

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Yuxiang Liu

Hometown: Xiamen, China
Alma Mater: UCLA

Yuxiang aims to develop innovative algorithms, decision-making tools, and analytical methods for fields such as entrepreneurship, social good, and resource optimization.

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Joshua Lyman

Hometown: Cedar City, Utah
Alma Mater: Utah State University

Joshua develops research questions with the goal to help organizations and individuals to continue to work towards unity, peace, and prosperity.

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Julien Maire

Hometown: Dijon, France
Alma Maters: Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, Ecole Polytechnique, ENSAE

Julien aims to develop statistical and machine learning tools to inform the financial sector about climate risks and work toward a sustainable future.

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Jason Meng

Hometown: Hohhot, China
Alma Mater: Tsinghua University

Jason's research is centered around data-driven decision-making within complex societal systems.

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Ayush Sawarni

Hometown: Ranchi, India
Alma Maters: Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

Ayush aims to contribute to the theoretical understanding of algorithms that offer valuable real-world applications.

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Lezhi Tan (Carrie)

Hometown: Beijing, China
Alma Mater: Peking University

Lezhi develops novel algorithms and applies them to complex problems, especially high-dimensional and non-convex ones.

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Yinjun (YJ) Wang

Hometown: Qingdao, China
Alma Mater: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen

Yinjun's research utilizes tools across machine learning, optimization, and causal inference to build AI-powered analytics systems that make decision-making processes more evidence-based and streamlined.

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Chenghan Xie

Hometown: Shanghai, China
Alma Mater: Fudan University

Chenghan's goal is to optimize every aspect of AI to reduce the massive energy consumption of AI systems.

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Xilan Zhang

Hometown: Daqing, China
Alma Mater: Tsinghua University

Xilan's research aims to understand and mitigate the disparities in job and entrepreneurial outcomes.

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