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Yan Li is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University. He earned his Ph.D. in Operations Research from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2024, following a Master of Science in Statistics from the same institution in 2018. Li holds dual bachelor's degrees in Applied Mathematics and Accounting from Nankai University, awarded in 2016. His research interests include dynamic optimization, robust optimization, and stochastic optimization, focusing on Markov decision processes and reinforcement learning. His contributions to the field have been recognized through various awards, including the Alice John Jarvis Ph.D. Student Research Award and the Margaret Stephen Kendrick Research Excellence Award. Li is committed to advancing the understanding and application of complex optimization techniques in engineering.
Department: Department of Communication and Journalism. Ph.D. program only currently admitting. GRE is test-optional.