Congratulations to Dr. Ying (Leticia) Liao who successfully defended her PhD on May 30th. The title of her dissertation was “Statistical Machine Learning on Time Series with Applications to Manufacturing and Healthcare”. Dr. Liao has received multiple offers from top universities in China and will be joining the Business School at Wuhan University (a Top 10 University in China) in Fall 2023. We are very proud of your accomplishments, Dr. Liao!

 

The IISE (IISE Annual Conference and Exposition) was held in New Orleans, LA. I served as the co-track chair for the 2023 IISE Annual Conference QCRE track and chaired two sessions:  QCRE Best Track Paper Competition and NSF Proposal Writing Workshop. We made the following presentation.

• A Statistical Online Inference Method for Batch-adaptive Q-Learning Algorithm by Saunak Panda and Yisha Xiang