News & Updates

Upcoming Talks

• Nov 2026 — INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA
• Sep 2026 — Wharton Generative AI & Business Conference, San Francisco, CA

News

• Nov 2026 — I will be presenting our paper On-Off Systems with Strategic Customers at the MSOM Invited Session of the INFORMS Annual Meeting 2026. If you’re attending, I’d love to connect!
• Sep 2026 — CentaurBench was accepted at the 2026 Wharton Generative AI & Business Conference.
• Jun 2026 — Awarded the Tau Beta Pi Scholarship, given in recognition of academic achievement, extracurricular activities, and the promise of substantial contributions to the engineering profession.
• Nov 2025 — Our work was featured by UC Berkeley IEOR and sparked a viral discussion among practitioners on X. It was also cited as a motivating framework in OpenAI’s paper on Scaling Social Science Research.
• Nov 2025 — Calyber: A Ridesharing Game, which I helped develop under Prof. Chiwei Yan, was awarded Runner-up at the 2025 INFORMS Case Competition.
• Oct 2025 — Our paper “Do Large Language Models Understand Chronology?” (with Prof. Paul Glasserman) was accepted for oral presentation at the AAAI-26 Student Abstract Program.
• Jun 2025 — Joined Columbia Business School (DRO) as a Summer Research Fellow.
• May 2025 — Awarded Best Data Visualization at the 2025 Berkeley CDSS Data Discovery Symposium for our work on evaluating Board of Directors’ effectiveness.
• Apr 2025 — Awarded 1st Runner-Up at the Wells Fargo & Berkeley IEOR Bay Area Decision Sciences Summit for our work on Options Pricing and Portfolio Optimization.
• Aug 2024 — Joined the Data Innovation & AI Lab (DIAL) as a Research Assistant, working with Srikanth Janjirala on the Impact of AI on crowdsourcing platforms and Stella Jia on the impact of pirated data on LLMs’ performance.