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Zhengzhong Ricky You (游正中)

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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.

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Education

  • University of Florida
    M.S. in Industrial & Systems Engineering, 2021–2025

  • Nankai University
    B.S. in Chemistry, 2017–2021

Collaboration

I am interested in collaborating on problems at the intersection of exact optimization, learning-augmented algorithms, and deployable decision-support tools.

  • branch-price-and-cut and column-generation methods
  • learning to accelerate exact optimization
  • routing, scheduling, and inventory systems
  • open-source solver engineering and reproducible computation

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Contact

Feel free to reach out about research, software, talks, and collaboration opportunities.

Peer Review Service

I have served as a reviewer for the following venues:

  • International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)
  • INFORMS Journal on Computing
  • INFORMS Journal on Optimization
  • Transportation Science
  • Transportation Research Part B: Methodological
  • IISE Transactions
  • Computers & Operations Research
  • OR Spectrum