Ph.D. Career Development Forum

Prof. Weihua Zhou

Weihua Zhou is Qiushi Distinguished Professor of Zhejiang University, Professor of School of Management, and Young Changjiang Scholar of Ministry of Education. He received his bachelor degree in Electronic Engineering and master degree in Applied Mathematics from Zhejiang University and his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is currently the director of the International Research Center for Data Analytics and Management of Zhejiang University. His research interests include data analytics , supply chain management and supply chain finance.

Prof. Dongdong Ge

Dongdong Ge is a professor and the dean of Research Institute for interdisciplinary Sciences in Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. He received his Ph.D. degree from MS&E at Stanford University. His main research interests lie in large scale optimisation algorithms and applications, and supply chain management in practice. He published in OR and CS journals and conferences such as OR, POMS, MOR, MP, FOCS, SODA, EC, NeurIPS, ICML, etc. He is also the chief scientist and a co-founder of Cardinal Operations(shanshu.ai) and has consulted for companies such as Boeing, IBM, JD, SF-Express, Huawei, Didi, NetEase, etc. He also leads the development of math. prog. solver COPT and LEAVES.

Dr Fan Zhang (Michael)

Fan Zhang (Michael) is currently with Hong Kong Theory Lab, Huawei Hong Kong Research Center as an optimisation expert. He received the BEng (first class Hons) degree from Chu Kochen Honors College, Zhejiang University (ZJU), in 2010, and the Ph.D. degree from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), in 2015. He joined Huawei Future Network Theory lab as a researcher in 2015 and is an optimisation expert in Theory Lab since 2022. His research interest covers a wide range including large-scale optimisation techniques, operational research with applications to networking problems, low complexity stochastic optimisation, and networked control theory. Michael is now leading a diversified team with people from different backgrounds working on challenging and hardcore optimisation problems originated from practical scenarios such as wide area network, optical network, wireless network, and data storage systems. He and his team has gained great experiences in designing customised algorithms for efficiently solving practical large-scale LPs/ILPs with number of variables or constraints to be over 1 million to billion. Some research outputs directly translate to solving practical problems, leading to increasing revenue or reducing costs, while some contribute to the development of Huawei’s generic solver (OptVerse) to enhance its performance.

Prof. Daniel Zhuoyu Long

Daniel Zhuoyu Long is an associate professor at the Department of Systems Engineering & Engineering Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Before joining CUHK, he received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Analytics and Operations at the National University of Singapore in 2013, his master degree from the Chinese Academy of Science in 2008, and his bachelor degree from Tsinghua University. His research interests revolve around distributionally robust optimisation, risk management, and broad applications in supply chain management, revenue management, and project management.

Dr Junyan Liu

Junyan Liu is an optimisation researcher in Hong Kong Theory Lab, Huawei Hong Kong Research Center. She received the B.S. degree in electronics and information engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in 2015, and the Ph.D. degree in electronic and computer engineering from The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), in 2020. Her current research interests include large-scale optimisation techniques with applications in networks problems. She has great experiences in designing customised algorithms for large-scale LPs/ILPs with number of variables or constraints more than 1 million.