Invited Talks

  • Robust Contracts in Experiment-Driven Companies: Screening through Incentive Alignment
    International Conference of the Chinese Scholars Association for Management Science and Engineering (CSAMSE), July 2024.

  • Statistical Learning of Distributionally Robust Stochastic Control in Continuous State Spaces
    2024 International Conference on Frontiers of Data Science, July 2024.

  • Experimental Design For One-sided Matching Marketplaces
    Stanford Student OR Seminar, March 2024.
    ChicagoBooth PostDoc OR-STATS Seminar, May 2024.
    INFORMS MSOM 2024 Conference, June 2024.
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  • On the Foundation of Distributionally Robust Reinforcement Learning
    INFORMS Optimization Society (IOS) Conference, March 2024.
    New Perspectives on Data Science with Imperfect Data, November 2023.
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  • Interference by Feedback Loops: Challenges in the Counterfactual Interleaving Design
    Conference on Digital Experimentation (CODE), November 2023.
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  • Expansion of Interference w.r.t. Tightness and a Linear Regression Estimator for Multiple Two-Sided Randomizations
    International Conference of the Chinese Scholars Association for Management Science and Engineering (CSAMSE), July 2023.
    INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 2023.

  • Drift Control of High-Dimensional RBM: A Computational Method based on Neural Networks
    SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP23), June 2023.
    INFORMS Applied Probability Society Conference (APS), June 2023.
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  • Optimal Transport in Data Science: Theory and Applications
    Statistics Seminar, Guanghua School of Management, PKU, October 2022.
    Seminar on Data Science and Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, HKUST, April 2023.
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  • A/B Tests Under a Safety Budget: A Simulation-Optimization Point of View
    INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 2022.
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  • Distributionally Robust Batch Contextual Bandits
    INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 2021.
    The Thirteenth International Conference of the Chinese Scholars Association for Management Science and Engineering (CSAMSE), July 2021.
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  • Distributionally Robust Policy Evaluation and Learning in Offline Contextual Bandits
    INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 2020.
    International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), July 2020.
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  • Efficient Steady-state Simulation of High-dimensional Stochastic Networks
    INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 2020.
    Stochastic Systems Seminar, May 2023.
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  • Quantifying the Empirical Wasserstein Distance to a Set of Measures: Beating the Curse of Dimensionality
    Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), December 2020.
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  • Confidence Regions in Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Estimation
    INFORMS Annual Meeting, October 2019.
    International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT), August 2019.
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