Y Han
Assistant Professor at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolY Han is an Assistant Professor at Chicago Booth and a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford with a decade of research and academic experience in operations research, statistics, and data-driven decision making. Trained at Princeton (BSE), Stanford (MS), and Cornell (PhD in ORIE), they bridge rigorous theoretical methods with applied problems in business and analytics. Their trajectory—from Stanford PhD student to Cornell doctoral work and back to Stanford for postdoctoral research—reflects deep quantitative breadth across statistics and optimization. Based in Chicago, they run an active personal website (xyhan.me) and combine academic publication with practical modeling insight, often translating complex probabilistic methods into actionable strategies for organizations.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science and Engineering (BSE) Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Bachelor of Science and Engineering (BSE) Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Operations Research, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Operations Research at Cornell UniversityMaster of Science - MS Statistics, Master of Science - MS Statistics at Stanford University
Chinese, Latin, English
Github Skills (14)
clustering5
gridengine4
python4
slurm4
hadoop3
spark3
benchmarking3
azure3
ansible3
gcp3
benchmark2
hpc2
machine-learning1
distributed-computing1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
xyhan-github/BlogRepo
Feb 2016 - Sep 2024
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 8 months
xyhan-github/clusterjob
Aug 2019 - May 2026
ClusterJob: An automated system for painless and reproducible massive computational experiments
Contributions:6 PRs, 16 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 10 months
pythonmachine-learningreproducibledistributed-computingpainless
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