He received his PhD in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at University of Florida, Gainesville, in 2010. He has worked in the fields of stochastic optimization, network optimization, integer programming and applications in a variety of areas, such as energy systems, transportation planning, production planning, etc. Currently, he is focusing on research of stochastic unit commitment, multistage stochastic power systems expansion planning with multiple resources, co-optimization of both power system, natural gas transportation and storage system expansion, smart grid consumer market equilibrium models, transportation planning, evacuation planning, traveling physician location and assignment problem, etc.