Dr. Yongjia Song is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering (IE) at Clemson University. Dr. Song has a B.S. in Computational Mathematics from Peking University, an M.S. in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an M.S., and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Song has been part of the Clemson IE department since Fall 2018 and he is also the current faculty advisor of the Clemson University INFORMS student chapter.
In this episode of the podcast, Dr. Song gives insights into his research which focuses on optimization under uncertainty, integer programming, and applications of optimization in transportation and logistics, network resiliency and disruption, and health care. He also discusses his recent interest in hurricane disaster relief logistics planning problems, the importance of being able to code, improving your writing skills, and much more.
To learn more about Dr. Song, make sure to visit his personal website and his Google Scholar page. You can also follow him on Twitter @songmath.