Send us a text Evelyn Xiao-Yue Gong is an Assistant Professor of OM at Tepper. She has a PhD from the ORC at MIT, where she was advised by David Simchi-Levi and Jim Orlin. She spent summers at Google Research, Microsoft, HelloFresh, and DE Shaw. Her main research pertains to AI for supply chain and sustainability. She also works on assortment optimization and data-driven decision making. In the first half of the episode, we discuss her journey from being a PhD student to an assistant profess...
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Send us a text Evelyn Xiao-Yue Gong is an Assistant Professor of OM at Tepper. She has a PhD from the ORC at MIT, where she was advised by David Simchi-Levi and Jim Orlin. She spent summers at Google Research, Microsoft, HelloFresh, and DE Shaw. Her main research pertains to AI for supply chain and sustainability. She also works on assortment optimization and data-driven decision making. In the first half of the episode, we discuss her journey from being a PhD student to an assistant profess...
Chris Villi: Working at FedEx Ground / Shipping Problems
Optimizing You
1 hour 15 minutes
3 years ago
Chris Villi: Working at FedEx Ground / Shipping Problems
Send us a text Chris Villi has worked at FedEx Ground over the past 21 years. Chris currently holds the role of Operations Research Principal - providing technical leadership surrounding coordination of OR efforts, investment in OR professionals, and advancement of OR. We chat about Chris' background, difficulties around solving problems in practice versus theoretically, and a current OR project that Chris is working on to optimize some of the shipping done by FedEx Ground. Enjoy!
Optimizing You
Send us a text Evelyn Xiao-Yue Gong is an Assistant Professor of OM at Tepper. She has a PhD from the ORC at MIT, where she was advised by David Simchi-Levi and Jim Orlin. She spent summers at Google Research, Microsoft, HelloFresh, and DE Shaw. Her main research pertains to AI for supply chain and sustainability. She also works on assortment optimization and data-driven decision making. In the first half of the episode, we discuss her journey from being a PhD student to an assistant profess...
