CV

Education

Ph.D in Operations Research, MIT, 2019
B.A. in Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University, 2012
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Rice University, 2012

Work experience

Summer 2018: Research Intern
- Machine Intelligence Technology group of Alibaba’s DAMO
- Duties included: 1.) Distributionally Robust Analysis and Design of cloud scheduling, 2.) Distributionally Robust Algorithm design for HEMA’s omni-channel inventory replenishment system
Summer 2017: Visiting Research Scholar
- Singapore University of Technology and Design
- Duties included: Research on Distributionally Robust Optimization with Marginals.
- Supervisor: Professor Karthik Natarajan
Fall, Spring 2014-18: Research Assistant
- MIT
- Duties included: (Thesis Research) Robust Optimization in Operations/Revenue Management
- Supervisor: Professor David Simchi-Levi
Fall 2013 - Spring 2014: Research Assistant
- MIT
- Duties included: FDA - sponsored study of Food and Drug Supply Chain Vulnerabilities
- Supervisor: Professor Retsef Levi
Fall 2012 - Spring 2013: Research Assistant
- MIT
- Duties included: Simulation-Based Optimization
- Supervisor: Professor Carolina Osorio

Other Professional Activities

Journal Reviewer: Operations Research, Management Science, Mathematics of Operations Research, IEEE, Journal of Convex Analysis, SIAM Optimization
Sub-Reviewer for WINE 2019: The 15th Conference on Web and Internet Economics
Sub-Reviewer for European Symposium on Algorithms (2019)
Referee for Sloan Sports Analytics Conference (2015-2022)
Invited Attendee in both the Doctoral Student and Teaching Effectiveness Colloquia, INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2018

Skills

Programming
- C/C++, Java, Python, MATLAB, Julia, R, LATEX

Publications

On the Structure of Cardinality-Constrained Assortment Optimization

Louis Chen, David Simchi-Levi. (2017). "On the Structure of Cardinality-Constrained Assortment Optimization."

Distributionally Robust Max Flows with Marginals

Louis Chen, Will Ma, James Orlin, David Simchi-Levi. (2020). "Distributionally Robust Max Flows with Marginals." SOSA 2020. 1(2).

Correlation Robust Influence Maximization

Louis Chen, Divya Padmanabhan, Chee Chin Lim, Karthik Natarajan (2020). " Correlation Robust Influence Maximization." .

Robustness to Dependency in Influence Maximization

Louis Chen, Chee Chin Lim, Divya Padmanabhan, Karthik Natarajan (2024). "Robustness to Dependency in Influence Maximization." .

Distributionally Robust Linear and Discrete Optimization with Marginals

Louis Chen, Will Ma, Karthik Natarajan, David Simchi-Levi, Zhenzhen Yan. (2021). "Distributionally Robust Linear and Discrete Optimization with Marginals." Operations Research.