Recognition

Selected Awards and Honors

• Finalist, INFORMS PSOR Best Paper Competition (2025)
• Early Researcher Award, Ontario Ministry of Colleges and Universities (2023)
• Honorable Mention, MCDM Junior Researcher Best Paper Award Competition (2022)
• Early Career Teaching Award, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto (2019)
• Connaught New Researcher Award, University of Toronto (2019-2020)
• Dean’s Spark Professorship, University of Toronto (2018-2021)
• Ph.D. Fellowship, IBM (2014)

Invited Plenaries, Keynotes and Tutorials

• Methodological Advances in Two-stage Stochastic Programming,
  Recent Advances in Solving Multistage Stochastic Mixed-integer Programs
  51st Conference on the Mathematics of Operations Research (upcoming), Utrecht, Netherlands, January 2026.
• Decision Rules for Sequential Decision-making Under Uncertainty
  10th VOCAL Optimization Conference: Advanced Algorithms, Budapest, Hungary, June 2024.
• A Walk Through the ACOPF World
  Oberwolfach Workshop on Mixed-integer Nonlinear Optimization, Oberwolfach, Germany, August 2023.
• Tutorial, Benders Decomposition Based Approaches in Two-stage Stochastic Integer Programming
  International Conference on Stochastic Programming (ICSP), Davis, CA, USA, July 2023.
• Methodological Advances in Two-stage Stochastic Programming
  Workshop to Celebrate 20 Years of SCIP, Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany, November 2022.
• Semi-plenary, Linear Decision Rules for Multistage Stochastic Programming
  International Conference on Stochastic Programming (ICSP), Trondheim, Norway, 2019.