Employment
Senior Operations Research Developer, Southwest Airlines Sep 2024 - Now
- Maintain the codebase, develop features and algorithmic innovations for the mathematical optimization engine used for day-ahead aircraft route planning and real-time aircraft reassignment to minimize the cost and impact against operational disruption.
- Relevant skills: Operations Research, C++, Gitlab, Amazon Web Services, Scaled Agile Framework
Operations Research Consultant, American Airlines Jun 2022 - Aug 2024
- Enhance the mathematical optimization engine’s computational performance for the crew recovery system used in airline disruption management.
- Improve crew recovery optimizer performance through meticulous maintenance and deployment of new features, enhancing the resilience against 2022 winter storm Elliott as well as resulting in an impressive 40% improvement in 2023.
- Serve as university visit ambassador/capstone project advisor to strengthen the university relationship and increase the quantity and quality of job candidate pipeline.
Research Intern, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Dec 2020 - Apr 2021
- Develope a risk-constrained virtual power plant energy optimization model with novel bidding strategies.
- Conduct numerical studies to demonstrate the benefit and efficacy of the proposed model.
Visiting Research Associate, Eglin Air Force Research Laboratory May 2018 - Aug 2018
- Develop the mathematical model formulation strength and implement stochastic dual dynamic integer programming algorithm for Two-Stage Stochastic Interdependent Networks Mitigation and Restoration.
Technical Skills
- Programming: Python, C++
- Optimization tools: AMPL, GAMS, CPLEX, Gurobi, Xpress
- Developer platforms: Visual Studio, VSCode, Github, Linux, Eclipse
- Data engineering: Azure Databricks, Azure Machine Learning Studio
- Database analytics and data visualizaiton: SQL, Teradata, Tableau