People
Principal Investigator
Shancong (Sean) Mou
Shancong is pronounced “Shang Tsung”
Assistant Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Minnesota
Shancong (Sean) Mou received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech (2024), advised by Prof. Jianjun Shi. He also holds an M.S. in Computational Science and Engineering from Georgia Tech and a B.Eng. in Energy and Power Engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University.
Ph.D. Students
Deyi Kong
B.S., Wuhan University
Large-scale (bilevel) optimization for learning and decision making
Xinhan Yang
B.S., Shenzhen University · M.S., Georgia Institute of Technology
Physics-informed learning and its applications in energy systems
Zewei Deng
Co-advised with Prof. Liyan Xie
B.S., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · M.S., University of Chicago
Large language models
Zhiping Li
B.S. and M.S., Fudan University
Current project: surrogate-model bilevel optimization for sensor placement, mixed-integer programming
Robert Weber
B.S., University of Minnesota
Industrial AI and agentic AI for advanced manufacturing
Undergraduate Researchers
Siyu (Sylvia) Liu
UROP Award recipient
Yuxuan Zhao
High School Students
Parth Rana
Student Collaborators
Chang He
Advised by Prof. Shuzhong Zhang
Collaborating with us on large-scale optimization for physics-informed machine learning and related problems
Former Members
- Wan Wang, Master's student (now at Huawei)
- Michele Nguyen, Undergraduate researcher (UROP Award recipient)
- Hanting Fei, Remote research assistant (now at ISE, Virginia Tech)