Ricky Zhengzhong You

Love wins in both research and life, with kindness and empathy guiding every decision.

I am an operations research researcher working on exact and learning-augmented optimization for large-scale routing, scheduling, and inventory problems. My work combines branch-price-and-cut, column generation, dynamic programming, and solver engineering, with an emphasis on building transparent and reusable decision-support tools.

I received an M.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering from the University of Florida. I developed RouteOpt, an open-source exact solver for vehicle routing problems, and I am interested in bridging optimization theory, software implementation, and practical operational impact in logistics and related service systems.