Research

My research is organized around three connected directions: AI agents in the economy, organizations, and science; foundation models and learning for operational systems; and experiments, markets, and games.

Foundation Models and Learning for Operational Systems

I build reusable models that learn the dynamics of operational systems such as queues, arrivals, inventories, and service processes, simulate them, and transfer decision strategies across related problems. This agenda connects generative simulation, reinforcement learning, queueing systems, and off-policy evaluation. Earlier simulation and reinforcement-learning papers are methodological foundations for this agenda, not papers retroactively relabeled as foundation-model research.

2025Operations Research

A Doubly Stochastic Simulator with Applications in Arrivals Modeling and Simulation

w/ Zheng, Zhu

2023ICML

Robust Situational Reinforcement Learning in Face of Context Disturbances

w/ Zhang, Zhang + 4

2022NeurIPS

An Adaptive Deep RL Method for Non-Stationary Environments with Piecewise Stable Context

w/ Chen, Zhu + 8

2022NeurIPS SyntheticData4ML Workshop

Mind Your Step: Continuous Conditional GANs with Generator Regularization

w/ Zhang, Ma + 2

2019Working paper

Demand Prediction, Predictive Shipping, and Product Allocation for Large-Scale E-Commerce

w/ Li, Zhou, Zheng