Journal Publications

• Bypassing the Monster: A Faster and Simpler Optimal Algorithm for Contextual Bandits Under Realizability (with David Simchi-Levi)
  • Mathematics of Operations Research (2022)
  • Honorable Mention, INFORMS George Nicholson Student Paper Competition, 2020
• Online Pricing with Offline Data: Phase Transition and Inverse Square Law (with Jinzhi Bu and David Simchi-Levi)
  • Management Science (2022)
  • Preliminary version appeared in ICML 2020
  • Winner, INFORMS Data Mining Best Theoretical Paper Award, 2020
• Phase Transitions in Bandits with Switching Constraints (with David Simchi-Levi)​​
  • Management Science (2023)
  • Preliminary version appeared in NeurIPS 2019
  • Finalist, Applied Probability Society Best Student Paper Award, 2019
• Assortment Optimization for a Multi-Stage Choice Model (with Zizhuo Wang)
  • Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (2023)
  • Finalist, INFORMS Undergraduate Operations Research Prize, 2018

Journal Papers Under Revision

• Blind Network Revenue Management and Bandits with Knapsacks Under Limited Switches (with David Simchi-Levi and Jinglong Zhao)
  • Minor Revision, Operations Research
  • Finalist, IBM Service Science Best Student Paper Award, 2021

Working Papers

• Offline Reinforcement Learning: Fundamental Barriers for Value Function Approximation (with Dylan Foster, Akshay Krishnamurthy, David Simchi-Levi)
  • Journal version to be submitted
  • Conference version accepted to COLT 2022
  • Oral Presentation, NeurIPS 2021 Offline Reinforcement Learning Workshop
• Instance-Dependent Complexity of Contextual Bandits and Reinforcement Learning: A Disagreement-Based Perspective (with Dylan Foster, Alexander Rakhlin, David Simchi-Levi)
  • Journal version to be submitted
  • Conference version accepted to COLT 2021
• Feature-Based Dynamic Pricing with Online Learning and Offline Data (with Jinzhi Bu, David Simchi-Levi, and Sabrina Zhai)
  • Journal version in preparation
  • Finalist, INFORMS RMP Jeff McGill Student Paper Award, 2022

A list of the research talks that I gave can be found here.