Recent updates and milestones
News
- ICML 2026 Regular Paper Acceptance Draft-and-Audit Reinforcement Learning for Optimization Modeling was accepted as a regular paper at ICML 2026.
- TikTok Summer Internship May 18-August 21, 2026 Machine Learning Engineer Intern role at TikTok in E-commerce Supply Chain and Logistics.
- INFORMS Mentor Match Started a one-on-one mentoring pairing with Hai Wang through the INFORMS Mentor Match Program, with a focus on career development and research direction in operations research and analytics.
- MIT-UF-NEU Joint Summer Research Camp Selected participant in the 2026 camp, with research on large-scale inventory placement under demand uncertainty under the mentorship of Baichuan Mo.
- INFORMS Journal on Computing Acceptance RouteOpt was accepted by INFORMS Journal on Computing, recognizing the open-source modular exact solver project for vehicle routing problems.
- University of Kentucky Visiting Scholar Started a visiting scholar appointment at the University of Kentucky under the supervision of Chenglong Ye, with research on online learning for exact optimization algorithms.
- TSL 2026 Presentation Acceptance The paper on learning-based deep dual-optimal inequalities for stabilizing column generation was accepted for presentation at the 2026 INFORMS Transportation and Logistics Society Conference.
- Operations Research Acceptance The paper on two-stage learning to branch for exact vehicle routing was accepted by Operations Research.
- Alibaba Group (U.S.) Internship Offer Accepted a full-time Algorithm Engineer Intern offer from Alibaba Group (U.S.) Inc. for work on deep learning, reinforcement learning, and LLM-based methods for operations research problems.