Dr. Nick Duffield, TAMIDS Director, welcomes three new postdoctoral researchers for Fall 2020.
Dr. Yalong Pi joins TAMIDS from the Texas A&M Department of Construction Science, from which he obtained his PhD in 2020 for research in aerial disaster information retrieval using AI. He will work in the Operational Data Science Lab applying AI-based methods to video imaging to provide traffic measurements that can improve transportation planning and operations on the College Station campus.
Dr. Jisu Cao joins the Mays Business School with a partial appointment in TAMIDS. Dr. Cao obtained her PhD in 2020 from the University of Southern California for research in information economics and marketing. Her interests span quantitative marketing, empirical industrial organization, e-commerce, and social media. Dr. Cao’s work for TAMIDS will be in the Operational Data Science Lab, with a focus on problems at the intersection of Economics and Data Science.
Dr. Liang Ding works in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and is supported in part under an award from the TAMIDS Data Science Postdoc Project Program to Dr. Shahin Shahrampour. Dr Ding obtained his PhD in 2019 from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology for research on stochastic kriging for large data sets. At TAMIDS, Dr. Ding will consult on Data Science methodology for the Bring Your Own Data program.
Dr. Pi, Dr. Cao and Dr. Ding will join the group of Texas A&M postdoctoral researchers already involved with TAMIDS research, education and enablement programs: Dr. Matt Hielsberg (Institute for Scientific Computation), Dr. Seulbi Lee (Department of Construction Science) and Dr. Michelle Mellers (School of Public Health).