Chia-Hao Chang

Chia-Hao Chang(cc4626@columbia.edu) Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Columbia University

Short Bio

I am a 4th (rising 5th) year Ph.D. student in the Operations Research department at Columbia University. My current research focuses on dynamic optimization and stochastic control. I am fortunate to be advised by Professor Vineet Goyal. Here is my CV.

Before coming to Columbia, I received my M.S. in Decision, Information, and Communication Engineering (DICE) from the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) department at the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) in 2020. Prior to that, I earned my Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Physics from National Taiwan University (NTU) in 2018.

Research Interest

I am broadly interested in how strategic agents interact with an unknown environment in a dynamic setting. Below are a few topics that excite me.

• Sequential Decision Making under Uncertainty

  • Stochastic dynamic programming

  • Approximation of large scale Markov Decision Processes

  • Inference in sequential environments

Education

• Columbia University, New York City, NY.

  • Ph.D. student in Operations Research

  • Advisor: Vineet Goyal

  • Aug. 2020 - present.

• University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX.

  • M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Advisor: John Hasenbein.

  • Aug. 2018 - May 2020.

• National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

  • B.S. in Electrical Engineering with minor in Physics.

  • Sep. 2013 - Jan. 2018.

Misc.

I am a huge baseball fan and especially a fan of CPBL baseball teams Uni-Lions and TSG Hawks. I also watch MLB and am a fan of the New York Yankees and the almighty Shohei Ohtani.

I am also a fan of Taiwanese singers 5566, Wu Bai and Jay Chou.