I am a senior undergraduate student at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, majoring in Industrial Engineering. I am fortunate to conduct research under the guidance of Prof. Rui Gao (The University of Texas at Austin) and Prof. Shuang Li (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen), and I recently completed an exchange semester at UT Austin (Fall 2025). I have also had the pleasure of working with Prof. Chonghuan Wang (The University of Texas at Dallas). My research interests include data-driven decision making and optimization, with applications in operations research.

🎯 I plan to apply for Ph.D. programs in Fall 2026!

📖 Educations

• Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), Bachelor of Engineering in Industrial Engineering
  Sep 2022 – Jun 2026 (expected)
  • Exchange semester at University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2025 (ECE)

🔥 News

🏅 Finalist for the 2025 INFORMS Undergraduate Operations Research Prize

Recognized for excellence in undergraduate research in operations research.

📝 Publications

• “Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space Choice Model” SSRN
  Yiqi Yang, Zhi Wang, Rui Gao, Shuang Li
  Accepted at 26th ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC’25)
  A longer version is in preparation for journal submission.

  • Invited talk:
    • INFORMS Annual Meeting 2025 (Undergraduate OR Prize Finalist Session), Atlanta

🧩 Work in Progress

• “Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space Contextual Optimization”, with Rui Gao and Shuang Li.

🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2025.10 Finalist, INFORMS Undergraduate Operations Research Prize (Top 8 worldwide).
• 2024.12 China National Scholarship (0.2% domestically).
• 2024.10 Academic Excellence Scholarship (Top 2% SJTU).
• 2024.7 Special Prize, 19th National IE Application Case Competition, Tsinghua University(Top 3 teams nationwide).
• 2023.12 SAIC-GM Wuling Scholarship
• 2022.12 Zhiyuan Honorary Sholarship(Top 5%, SJTU)