Minghao is a Ph.D. student at Columbia University, being advised by Prof. Andrew Smyth. He is also co-advised by Prof. Max Li from University of Michigan. He recieved dual M.S. degree from the Industrial and Operations Engineering and the Intelligent System Engineering at University of Michigan. He is also a visiting student in Shanghai Jiao Tong University from 2020 to 2021 supervised by Prof. Yanfeng Shen. He received his bachelor degree in Civil Engineering from Southwest Jiaotong University in 2019. Advised by Prof. Wenbo Yang, he won the excellent degree paper with the dynamic response of tunnel and surrounding soil under long-term loads induced by trains, supported by NSF-China.

Research Interests

Methodologies:

• Combinatorial Optimization
• Robust Optimization
• Bayesian Inference (especially for High-Dimensional)
• Probabilistic ML

Applications:

• Advanced Urban Air Mobility
• Complex Cyber-Physical System
• UAV Routing and Trajactory Optimization and Control
• Nonlinear System Identification and Control
• Signal Processing and Machine Learning

Education

Columbia University, Sep 2022 - May 2026 (Expected)

• Ph.D. student in Engineering Mechanics, Calatrava Family Fellow
• Advisor: Prof. Andrew W. Smyth
• Co-advisor: Prof. Max Z. Li
• The Academic Family Tree
• Major Courses: Foundations of Graphical Models, High Dimensional Probability, Mathematics of Deep Learning, Computational Statistics, Bayesian Statistics, Real Analysis, Random Signals

University of Michigan, Sep 2020 - May 2022

• M.S. in Industrial and Operations Engineering
• M.S. in Intelligent System Engineering
• GPA: 3.84/4.0
• Major Courses: Computation ML & DS, Stochastic Process I & II, Linear System Theory, Dynamics Programming, Transportation Optimization, Deep Learning for CV

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Sep 2020 - July 2021

• Visiting student in the UM-SJTU joint institute
• GPA: 4.0/4.0
• Research: Bolt Loosening Monitoring with Integrated Vibro-Acoustic Modulation, Online Damage Sensing Neural System for Wind Turbine Blades

Southwest Jiaotong University, Sep 2015 - July 2019

• B.Eng. in Civil Engineering
• Major GPA: 88.17/100 Ranking:9/118

Recent News

• Minghao will be attending the 2023 INFORMS Annual Meeting, held in Phoenix, AZ, in October 2023. Minghao will present his work with gust-resistant drone delivery problems.
• Minghao will present recent work “Drone delivery routing with stochastic urban wind” in the 2023 IEEE 26th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC). This is a joint work with Prof. Andrew Smyth, Prof. Max Li, and Prof. Marco Giometto.
• Minghao will start to pursue a doctoral degree in Columbia Engineering from 2022 fall, advised by Prof. Andrew Smyth.
• Nov 2021, Minghao presented in 2021 Michigan Engineering Research Symposium .
• Nov 2021, Minghao presented on Multi-bolt loosening monitoring using an integrated vibro-acoustic modulation technique in the 2021 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition.