Graduate Students, HKUST IEDA

• Hao Su, PhD, from 2023
• Yige Wang, PhD, from 2024
• Yiming Zong, PhD, from 2024
• Geqi Wang, MPhil, from 2025
• Hanyang Li, PhD, from 2026

Courses Taught

Demand and Supply Analytics, HKUST

This course surveys supply chain management from a general manager’s perspective, emphasizing AI-based methods to match supply with demand. Topics include AI-augmented forecasting and demand sensing; inventory, assortment, and pricing via reinforcement learning, bandits, and optimization; AI-empowered S&OP and scenario planning; logistics and network design using routing, fleet control, and digital twins; risk, resilience, and sustainability with anomaly detection and robust planning; and methods for procurement, negotiations, and document understanding, supported by modern data infrastructure and governance. As product life cycles shrink and competition intensifies, integrating predictive models, optimization, and human expertise turns supply chains into a durable competitive advantage.

Engineering Foundations for Fintech, HKUST

This course surveys key fintech innovations—P2P lending, crowdfunding, microloans, digital wallets and mobile payments, robo-advisors, and blockchain/cryptocurrencies—through the lens of engineering foundations. Students learn platform data structures and APIs; distributed systems and streaming for low-latency payments/trading; ML for credit scoring, fraud detection, and portfolio optimization; optimization for pricing and risk; cryptography and consensus for blockchains; smart contracts and basic formal verification; database design and ledger consistency; and security/privacy (KYC/AML, differential privacy, federated learning). Hands-on labs build end-to-end prototypes (lending platform, payment microservice with real-time fraud filters, robo-advisor, smart-contract token) to develop secure, scalable, and compliance-aware fintech systems.

Operations Management, NYU

This is an undergraduate core course I taught at NYU Stern as an instructor. This course covers topics such as supply chain management, inventory management, process analysis, basics of optimization and queueing theory, as well as revenue management.