Employment

Senior Operations Research Developer, Southwest Airlines Sep 2024 - Now

Aircraft Assignment, Route Planning and Recovery Optimization Under Disruption - The Baker

Enhanced Southwest Airlines’ real-time aircraft recovery optimization system by tailoring solution metrics to six irregular-operation scenarios and four solution profiles, enabling faster and more informed decision-making for operations controllers.
Improved visibility of crew impacts within recovery solutions by introducing new metrics (duty/rest violations, insufficient connection time, cascading crew availability after cancellations), strengthening reliability and reducing risk of uncovered flights.
Designed and implemented a fuel-efficiency–aware tail assignment algorithm, assigning long-haul flights to lower fuel-bias aircraft. This innovation reduced delays and passenger displacement, improved on-time maintenance compliance, and lowered fuel consumption and costs while contributing to environmental sustainability goals.
Led code security remediation efforts by resolving critical Veracode-flagged vulnerabilities (integer overflow, underflow, signed–unsigned mismatches, cryptographic entropy); enhanced software security posture with nearly 2× improvement in security scan results.
Relevant skills: Operations Research, C++, Gitlab, Amazon Web Services, Scaled Agile Framework

Operations Research Consultant, American Airlines Jun 2022 - Aug 2024

Crew Schedule Operations and Recovery Under Disruption

Enhance the mathematical optimization engine’s computational performance for the crew recovery system used in airline disruption management 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.

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