Shixiang (Woody) Zhu 祝士祥 [Official Webpage]
I am an Assistant Professor in Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University. I obtained my Ph.D. in Machine Learning at H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology.
My research lies in the broad area of machine learning, statistics, and operations research. I am particularly interested in spatio-temporal modeling and decision making under uncertainty. Much of my work aims to develop new methodologies that address high-impact problems in sustainability, energy, transportation, and healthcare.
Contact
Address 4800 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh PA 15213
Office Hamburg Hall 2118H
Email shixiangzhu[at]cmu[dot]edu
Phone (412) 268-9083
News
I am actively looking for Postdoc/Ph.D. students with OR/Stats/IE/CS backgrounds and also happy to work with masters/undergraduate students at CMU. Feel free to shoot me an email if you are interested in machine learning, statistics, and operations research in general.
- Nov 21, 2024: attend NSF Workshop on Data-driven Modeling and Prediction of Rare and Extreme Events, Chicago, IL.
- Oct 19, 2024: serve as the organizer of the 19th INFORMS Workshop on Data Mining and Decision Analytics, Seattle, WA.
- Oct 10, 2024: selected as 2024 Gen-AI fellows by the Center for Intelligent Business in Tepper.
- Oct, 2024: serve as Area Chair of AISTATS 2024.
- Oct 9, 2024: give an invited talk at Northwestern Kellogg Operations Seminar, Evanston, IL.
- Aug 29, 2024: received NSF funding with Zhigang Peng for our project "Next Generation Machine Learning Approach to Decode High-Resolution Earthquake Catalogs".
- Aug 23, 2024: give an invited talk at YinzOR.
- Aug 21, 2024: give a seminar talk on "Predictive Modeling and Robust Decision Making for Grid Resilience" at Argonne National Lab, Lemont, IL.
- Jun 16-29, 2024: participate in the IMSI Long Program "The Architecture of Green Energy", Chicago, IL.
- May 8: 2024: attend NSF OSEER Workshop: Operations Engineering for Hazard and Disaster Mitigation, Boston, MA.
- Mar 26, 2024: Aoran received Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF).
- Mar 22, 2024: give a talk at 2024 INFORMS Optimization Society Conference, Houston, TX.
- Dec 15, 2023: give a spotlight talk (paper) at 2023 NeurIPS DGM4H workshop, New Orleans, LA.
- Nov 3, 2023: give a talk (paper) at the OM Seminar in Tepper.
- Oct 27, 2023: our paper is accepted as the spotlight (five out of 44 accepted papers) at Deep Generative Models for Health (DGM4H) Workshop NeurIPS 2023.
- Oct 16-18, 2023: chair Community-Committee’s Choice Session "Districting for modern service systems" and present our paper at INFORMS 2023.
- Sep 26, 2023: our paper is selected as the finalist of 2023 QSR Best Student Paper Competition.
- Sep 25, 2023: give a talk (paper) at the SQUALL seminar at CMU.
- Sep 14, 2023: our paper is selected as the Best Applied Paper Finalist for the 18th INFORMS Workshop on Data Mining and Decision Analytics.
- Aug 25-26, 2023: Wenbin (poster) won the first place in the Best Poster Competition for the 2023 YinzOR Student Conference. Congratulations!
- Dec 1-3, 2022: attend NeurIPS 2022 and present our poster at New Orleans, LA.
- Oct 16-19, 2022: serve as Session Chair for ''Interpretable Machine Learning for Social Good'' at INFORMS 2022, Indianapolis, IN.
- Oct 16-19, 2022: present our research on traffic congestion modeling at INFORMS 2022, Indianapolis, IN.
- Oct 16, 2022: our paper is the winner of the Best Applied Paper Competition for the 17th INFORMS Workshop on Data Mining and Decision Analytics and the runner-up of the 2022 INFORMS Poster Competition.
- Oct 15, 2022: our paper is selected as the Best Student Paper Nominee and presented at 2022 INFORMS Workshop on Data Science, Indianapolis, IN.
- Oct 23-26, 2021: present our police redistricting project and our recent paper on COVID-19 modeling at INFORMS 2021, Anaheim, CA.
- Oct 23-26, 2021: serve as Session Chair for "Machine Learning for Spatio-temporal Data Modeling and Analysis." at INFORMS 2021, Anaheim, CA.
- Oct 11, 2021: attend Georgia Statistics Day at Emory University, Atlanta, GA. Present poster. Receive Excellent Poster Award.
- Sep 25, 2021: I was selected to participate in Cornell ORIE Young Researchers Workshop (October 7-9 in Ithaca, NY).
- Sep 23, 2021: our paper is selected as the Best Applied Paper Finalist for the 16th INFORMS Workshop on Data Mining and Decision Analytics.
- Sep 2, 2021: our paper is selected as the finalist of 2021 INFORMS Wagner Prize.
- Aug 14, 2021: attend KDD 2021 Workshop on Data Science for Social Good. Give an oral presentation (paper) virtually.
- Aug 5, 2021: receive George Leadership Development Fellows for year 2021 in recognition of excellence in research in the health systems and analytics area.
- July 24, 2021: attend ICML Time Series Workshop 2021. Give a contributed talk (paper) virtually. Receive Best Paper Award (Honorable Mention).
- Jun 23, 2021: our paper is selected as the semi-finalist of 2021 INFORMS Wagner Prize.
- May 4, 2021: receive ML@GT Fellows for year 2021.
- Apr 6, 2021: my Q&A profile gets featured on meet ML@GT.
- Apr 15, 2021: attend AISTATS 2021. Give an oral presentation (paper) virtually.