Very grateful to AFOSR for their support, and to my students whose contributions have shaped this proposal and my broader research program. This award provides an exciting opportunity to advance our work on optimization under uncertainty, and I look forward to sharing our future contributions.

*formulating and solving :-)

3/3 Dr.Tsang is the first PhD student from my group to defend and complete all degree requirements, and this milestone is the most meaningful and rewarding achievement of my career so far. It has been an honor and a true pleasure working with him, and I am incredibly proud of all he has accomplished

2/3 His work has been published in Operations Research, EJOR, INFORMS Journal on Optimization, and Operations Research Letters. Special thanks to Prof. Frank E. Curtis, Prof. Larry Snyder, and Prof. Henry Lam for serving on Tim's committee

especially those from underrepresented groups. I hope we move away from this narrow metric in the future.

3/3 Moreover, citations take time to accumulate and are influenced by factors beyond research quality (you know). They can reinforce disparities, favoring well-established researchers while overlooking equally valuable contributions from early career researchers, ..

2/3 As an early-career scholar, I find it unfair when some folks use citation counts to measure success or research quality. Journal review and publication take a very long time (at least for me, each paper takes almost 1.5-2 years from submission to publication).