Evaluation of Near-Terminal Operation Performance under Uncertainties in High-Density Airspace
Invited talk at INFORMS Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, USA
CV
Education
- Ph.D., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Arizona State University, 2018–2023
- M.S., Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Arizona State University, 2017–2018
- B.S., Mechanical Design, Manufacturing, and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2013–2017
Positions
- Jul 2024 – present: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, The University of Texas at Austin
- Mar 2025 – present: Co-founder & CTO, Wyzzy, an agentic-AI healthcare startup, Austin, TX
- Jun 2023 – Jul 2024: Machine Learning Engineer, Thales USA, San Jose, CA
Honors and awards
- 2025 — 2nd Place, FAA Machine Learning / AI Data Challenge for Aviation Safety, McLean, VA
- 2023 — Outstanding Graduate Research Award, ASU Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
- 2015 — Outstanding Academic Performance Award, HUST Mechanical Science & Engineering
Funding and proposals
(as major initiator and writer)
- NASA NAMS-2 task: ACERO wildfire air traffic management — awarded, $100K
- 2024 FAA Machine Learning / AI Challenge for Aviation Safety — awarded, $20K
- NASA ULI Round 9, Thrust 5: In-Time System-Wide Safety Assurance — proposal led, $5M, not selected
- Airport Cooperative Research Program, Transportation Research Board — proposal led, $400K, not selected
Invited conference talks
Machine Learning Based Aircraft Trajectory Prediction With Historical Data
Invited talk at INFORMS Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, USA
Mentoring
- UT Austin: Jianhua Liang (Ph.D., ongoing — two journal manuscripts submitted), Alex Porcayo (M.S. 2025 — two journal articles published), Cameron Jobson and Viraj Singhee (B.S. Computer Science, ongoing)
- Arizona State: Rahul Rathnakumar (Ph.D. 2024), Qihang Xu (Ph.D. 2024)
Service
- Technical Program Committee, CVPR Workshop on Perception Beyond the Visible Spectrum, 2024–present
- Early Career Editorial Board, Computer Systems Science and Engineering, 2023–present
- Peer reviewer for 50+ journals in aerospace, mechanical, transportation, AI, IE/OR, and CS/CE, including Aerospace Science and Technology, Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, AIAA Journal of Aerospace Information Systems, AIAA Journal of Aircraft, Computers in Industry, Information Fusion, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, Transportation Research Part C/D/E/F, and IEEE T-ITS/TAES