Bio

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Washington. My research interests include applied statistics for cyber-physical security and resilience, online anomaly detection, reinforcement learning, and complex systems modeling and control. I received my Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering (minor in Machine Learning) and M.S. in Statistics from Georgia Tech. I also hold a B.S. in Mechanical (Automotive) Engineering from Tsinghua University.

News

Sep 2025: I am honored to be invited for the Distinguished Speaker Series at Boeing
Sep 2025: Welcome Pojtanut Manopanjasiri to the group as a PhD student
Jun 2025: I am joining the University of Washington as an Assistant Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering
May 2025: It was a pleasure to discuss the challenges and the future of cyber-physical resilience research and education as a panelist in the special session Cybersecurity Education for Engineers: Action for Cyber Resiliency" at the IISE Annual Conference 2025
May 2025: Congratulations to Navid Aftabi for being a finalist of the QCRE Best Student Paper Competition!
Apr 2025: Congratulations to Jason West for paper accepted on IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering
Dec 2024: I am honored to be featured in the QCRE Member Spotlight of the latest QCRE newsletter
Nov 2024: I am starting to serve as Associate Editor for ASME JCISE
Aug 2024: Welcome Junyi Wu to the group!
May 2024: I am honored to receive the NSF CAREER Award granted for my proposal "Understanding the Integrated Cyber-Physical Resilience of Continuous Critical Manufacturing"