简介

Yongpei Guan serves as Interim Chair and Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Director of the Computational Stochastic Optimization Lab at the University of Florida. His research interests include stochastic and discrete optimization, supply chain management, and renewable energy integration and power system operations. His works in these areas have led to NSF Career Award 2008 and Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award 2010 and have been published at IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, Mathematical Programming, and Operations Research. His awards also include as a faculty adviser for the Nicholson Best Student Paper Award, first place, from INFORMS and Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Awards, second and third places, from IIE. He is currently the associate editor for Journal of Global Optimization and Computational Optimization and Applications, as well as the newsletter editor for the INFORMS Computing Society (2011-present). He was also nominated and served as the chair for 2014 IIE Annual Conference ISERC Program and invited and served as the 2013 Guest Editor-in-Chief for the Special Issue on “Optimization Methods and Algorithms Applied to Smart Grid” for IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. Yongpei Guan obtained his Ph.D. from Georgia Tech in 2005. Before that, he obtained his M.Phil degree from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2001 and his dual BS degrees from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1998.