Students

Graduate Students

  • Lanran Fang. Lanran Fang is a first-year Ph.D. student in Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign (UIUC). His research interests lie in distributionally robust optimization (DRO), dynamic stochastic programming, and machine learning theory. His current theoretical work focuses on developing new data-driven DRO models that can effectively handle more complex and realistic data structures. Through this line of research, he aims to bridge rigorous optimization theory with modern data-driven decision-making under uncertainty.

  • YoungChul Yoon. YoungChul Yoon is a second-year M.S. student in the Department of Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering at the UIUC. His research interests lies in contextual optimization, distributionally robust optimization, and multistage decision-making under uncertainty. His current work focuses on developing data-driven contextual optimization frameworks for decision-making problems under uncertainty. He received his bachelor's degree from Kyung Hee University.

Alumni

  • Zhuangzhuang Jia (2025). PhD thesis: “Robust Data-Driven Optimization for Dynamic and Decision-Dependent Systems under Uncertainty”

    • First position: ExxonMobil

  • Hyuk Park (2025). PhD thesis: “Data-Driven Robust Solution Schemes for Sequential Decision Making”

    • First position: Republic of Korea Army

  • Xiangyi Fan (2023). PhD thesis: “Distributionally Robust Solution Schemes for Two-stage Optimization and Interdiction Problems Under Uncertainty”

    • First position: ExxonMobil

  • Yijie Wang (2023). PhD thesis: “Robust Solution Schemes for Queue Management, Fair Classification and Portfolio Selection”

    • First position: Tongji University

  • Prateek Srivastava (2021, jointly supervised with Dr. Purnamrita Sarkar). PhD thesis: “Robust Solution Schemes for Clustering and Decision-Making Problems under Uncertainty”

    • First position: Amazon

  • Areesh Mittal (2019). PhD thesis: “Copositive Programming Approaches for Robust Optimization and Löwner-John Ellipsoid Problems”

    • First position: Target

  • Madhushini Prasad (2018). PhD thesis: “Approximation Schemes for Network, Clustering, and Queueing Models”

    • First position: ExxonMobil <img style=“vertical-align:middle;margin:0px 10px” src=“imagesGAHanasusanto.jpg” alt=“profile” width=“170px” height=“185px” ></div>