Shixiang (Woody) Zhu
祝士祥
Assistant Professor
Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy
Carnegie Mellon University
Address: 4800 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh PA 15213
Office: Hamburg Hall 2118H
Email: shixiangzhu (at) cmu (dot) edu
Phone: (412) 268-9083
CV, Google Scholar, Github
Research Interest
My research bridges machine learning, statistics, and optimization, with an emphasis on sequential modeling and uncertainty quantification, decision making under uncertainty, and human-AI collaboration, motivated by applications in energy systems operations and management.
News
2025
We are guest-editing a special issue of the IJDS, inviting papers that explore the intersection of AI and energy.
Nov 20: give a talk at National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Computational Science Faculty Seminar.
Oct 26-29: our paper is selected as the Runner-up of 2025 INFORMS HAS Student Paper Competition. This is a joint work with Satyam Verma, Holly Wiberg, and Sridhar Tayur.
Oct 26-29: our paper is selected as the Runner-up of the 2025 INFORMS Data Mining Best Applied Paper.
Oct 25: co-organize the INFORMS 2025 Data Challenge Competition.
Oct 23: give a talk at University of Pittsburgh IE Seminar.
Sep 25: give a talk at Workshop on Human-AI Complementarity for Decision Making.
Sep 24: give a talk at University of Minnesota ISyE Seminar.
Sep 3: Ryan (paper) won the 2025 INFORMS ENRE Best Student Paper Award.
Aug 30: Wenbin (poster) won the first place in the Best Poster Competition for the 2025 YinzOR.
Jun 2: our team, led by Zekai, won the 3rd place (out of 44) in the 2025 PG&E Energy Analytics Challenge.
May 29: give a talk at TRB DATA Conference.
May 28: give a SPX Research Talk at Amazon.
May 23: our paper won the best paper award at 2025 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting.
May 8: give a talk at GenAI Fellows Seminar.
Mar 24: Wendy and Michelle received Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF).
2024
Dec 17: receive 2024-2025 Block Center Seed Grant.
Nov 21: attend NSF Workshop on Data-driven Modeling and Prediction of Rare and Extreme Events.
Oct 19: co-organize the 19th INFORMS Workshop on Data Mining and Decision Analytics.
Oct 10: selected as 2024 Gen-AI fellows.
Oct 9: give a talk at Northwestern Kellogg Operations Seminar.
Aug 29: received NSF funding with Zhigang Peng for our project.
Aug 23: give a talk at 2024 YinzOR.
Aug 21: give a seminar talk on “Predictive Modeling and Robust Decision Making for Grid Resilience” at ANL.
Jun 16-29: participate in the IMSI Long Program “The Architecture of Green Energy”.
May 8: attend NSF OSEER Workshop: Operations Engineering for Hazard and Disaster Mitigation.
Mar 26: Aoran received Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF).
Mar 22: give a talk at 2024 INFORMS Optimization Society Conference.
2023
Dec 15: give a spotlight talk (paper) at 2023 NeurIPS DGM4H workshop.
Nov 3: give a talk (paper) at the OM Seminar in Tepper.
Oct 27: our paper is the spotlight (five out of 44 accepted papers) at DGM4H Workshop NeurIPS 2023.
Sep 26: our paper is selected as the finalist of 2023 QSR Best Student Paper Competition.
Sep 25: give a talk (paper) at the SQUALL seminar at CMU.
Sep 14: our paper is selected as the Best Applied Paper Finalist for the 18th INFORMS DMDA Workshop.
Aug 25-26: Wenbin (poster) won the first place in the Best Poster Competition for the 2023 YinzOR.