Wotao's short biography

Education

Columbia University, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

• Ph.D. in operations research (2006)
  Disseration: The TV-L1 Model: Theory, Computation, and Applications.
  Advisor: Donald Goldfarb
  

• M.Phil. / M.S. in operations research (2006 / 2003)

Nanjing University, Department of Mathematics

• B.S. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics (2001)

Working experience

Rice University, Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Associate Professor (2012 – present)
Assistant Professor (2006 – 2012)

Siemes Corporate Research, Princeton, NJ
Part-time Technical Employee (2004 – 2006)

Awards

Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2009)
NSF CAREER Award (2008)