Chun Peng obtained a PhD in Management Science and Engineering in February 2018 from the Beijing Institute of Technology, China, under the supervision of Professor Jinlin Li. For his doctoral work, using recent advances in stochastic programming and robust optimization, Chun studied facility location problems in emergency medical services (i.e., humanitarian relief network design, ambulance location, etc.) in a highly uncertain and data-driven context. He also developed enhanced solution algorithms to solve the resulting MIP formulations. And finally, some practical insights were drawn from a real-life case study.
Chun is currently a postdoctoral researcher working with Professor Erick Delage at GERAD and HEC Montréal. The main focus of his current project is to propose and study a novel, distributionally robust, stochastic-dominance-constrained optimization framework for handling uncertainty and risk preference in a data-driven context, along with applications in network design, finance, and machine learning problems.