Employment
Senior Operations Research Developer, Southwest Airlines Sep 2024 - Now
Aircraft Assignment, Route Planning and Recovery Optimization Under Disruption
- Designed system-level decision frameworks for dynamic resource reallocation under disruption, enabling rapid evaluation of trade-offs across multiple operational scenarios and competing objectives.
- Developed downstream impact metrics to capture cascading effects across interdependent resources, improving global system stability and decision quality in real-time decision environments.
- Designed and implemented a multi-objective resource allocation algorithm balancing cost efficiency, reliability, and operational constraints across a large-scale networked system.
- Led cross-functional initiatives across engineering, operations, and security teams to improve system robustness, including remediation of critical vulnerabilities and improving enterprise security scan outcomes by ~2x.
- Technologies: C++, Optimization, AWS (EC2, S3), GitLab, Agile (SAFe)
Operations Research Consultant, American Airlines Jun 2022 - Aug 2024
Crew Schedule Operations and Recovery Under Disruption
- Contributed to large-scale optimization systems for real-time crew scheduling and disruption management in complex, highly constrained environments.
- Improved system performance and scalability of optimization pipelines, achieving ~40% manual recovery time reduction and enabling faster decision cycles in time-sensitive workflows.
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
- Cloud & DevOps: AWS (EC2, S3), Azure ML/Databricks, Gitlab CI/CD, SAFe Agile
- Database analytics and data visualizaiton: SQL, Teradata, Tableau
