Jie Wang
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Jie Wang |
Short Bio
I got my PhD in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, advised by Prof. Yao Xie. I obtained Bachelor in Pure Mathematics from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen. My research develops statistics and optimization methodologies with applications in machine learning.
Awards
Winner, INFORMS 2024 Data Mining Society's Data Competition (1 out of 26)
Runner-up, INFORMS 2024 Computing Society Student Paper Award
Runner-up, INFORMS 2024 Data Mining Best Paper Award Competition
Finalist, Next-Gen Scholar’s Symposium 2024
Finalist, INFORMS 2023 Data Mining Society's Data Competition (4 out of 21)
Winner, Data Mining Best Theoretical Paper, 2023 INFORMS Workshop on Data Mining and Decision Analytics
Travel Award, Mixed Integer Programming Workshop 2023
2022 ISyE Robert Goodell Brown Research Excellence award (Data Science and Statistics Track)
Honorable Mention, Best Student Poster Award, Georgia Statistics Day 2022
Winner, 2022 INFORMS Poster Competition
Best Performance Award for Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam in Statistics, 2021
Travel Award, 2024 IEEE Information Theory Workshop
Travel Award, IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory 2019 and 2024
Funded Projects
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). PI. Theory and Algorithms for Distributionally Robust Optimization.
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Youth Science Fund (Category C), PI. Generative AI for Distributionally Robust Optimization, 2027 - 2029.
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Key Project, Co-PI (1 out of 3). A Study on Economic Theory and Policy Evaluation under Multimodal Data Fusion, 2027 - 2031. PI: Bingyi Jing
Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Big Data Computing, CUHK-Shenzhen (Major Participant)
Talks
21 August, 2026, Invited talk at Robust Optimization Methods and Applications Workshop, Shenzhen, China
25 May, 2026, Invited talk at Optimization and Optimal Transport Workshop, Les Diablerets, Switzerland
21 May, 2026, Seminar talk at EPFL, College of Management of Technology
7 May, 2026, Seminar talk at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Mathematics
21 March, 2026, Invited talk at INFORMS Optimization Society Conference, Atlanta, USA
21 January, 2026, Seminar talk at University of Science and Technology of China, School of Management
16 December, 2025, Seminar talk at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Department of Applied Mathematics
6 December, 2025, Invited talk at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics Symposium on Financial Statistics and Risk Management
3 December, 2025, Seminar talk at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences
29 November, 2025, Invited talk at Association of Asia-Pacific Operational Research Societies Youth Form, Hong Kong, China
29 October, 2025, Invited talk at INFORMS Annual Meeting, Atlanta, USA
21 August 2025, Invited talk at Youth Academic Conference of the Operations Research Society of China, Taiyuan, China
24 July 2025, Invited talk at International Conference on Continuous Optimization, Los Angelos, USA
6 July 2025, Invited talk at Robust Optimization Methods and Applications Workshop, Shenzhen, China
9 December 2024, Seminar talk at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Department of Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics
4 December 2024, Seminar talk at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Antai College of Economics and Management
30 November 2024, Seminar talk at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), School of Data Science
18 November 2024, Seminar talk at Tsinghua University, Industrial Engineering Program
12 November 2024, Seminar talk at Singapore University of Technology and Design, Engineering Systems and Design Pillar
18 October 2024, Seminar talk at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), Internet of Things Thrust
2024 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers
2024 SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science
2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting, oral talk
2024 Next-Gen Scholar's Symposium
2024 Purdue Operations Conference
2024 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Athens, Greece
2024 Princeton Workshop on Optimization, Learning, and Control
2024 International Symposium on Mathematical Programming
2024 ISyE Junior Researcher Workshop
2024 INFORMS Optimization Society Conference
2023 INFORMS Annual Meeting, oral talk and poster presentation
2023 INFORMS Workshop on DMDA
2023 SIAM Conference on Optimization
2023 Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) Workshop
2023 ICERM Linear and Non-Linear Mixed Integer Optimization Workshop
2022 INFORMS Annual Meeting, oral talk and poster presentation
2022 SIAM Seminar at University of Washington
2022 SIAM Conference on Mathematics of Data Science
2022 International Conference on Continuous Optimization
2022 North American School of Information Theory, poster presentation
2022 Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, virtual
2021 INFORMS Annual Meeting, virtual
2021 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), virtual
2020 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), virtual
2019 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Paris, France
2019 International Conference on Underwater Networks & Systems, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
2018 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Vail, Colorado, USA
Service
School Board Member, School of Artificial Intelligence, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
The Chair of TA Committee, School of Artificial Intelligence, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Reviewer for OR, MS, MSOM, MOR, TIT, JSAIT, TSP, MP, Journal of Global Optimization, Optimization Letters, Systems and Control Letters, AISTATS, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML