Yingcong Tan
Researcher at China Three Gorges Corporation
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolYingcong Tan is a researcher and operations-research engineer with nine years of experience bridging machine learning and optimization, currently based in Canada. He holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering from Concordia University and has pursued postdoctoral work at Concordia and the University of Toronto on inverse optimization, Bayesian optimization, QUBO modeling, and complex vehicle routing. From 2023–2025 he applied these research strengths in industry as a Senior Product Developer at IBS Software and is now a researcher at China Three Gorges Corporation. Yingcong’s work blends theoretical algorithm development with applied transportation and logistics problems—examples include last-mile routing prediction, pickup-and-delivery with transfer scheduling, and airplane service design for remote northern communities. He has published and developed novel gradient and bi-level optimization methods, and his projects often combine active learning with inverse optimization to learn decision models from (near-)optimal solutions. Colleagues describe him as someone who consistently turns rigorous academic ideas into practical tools for real-world decision-making.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Industrial Engineering, 4.08/4.3, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Industrial Engineering, 4.08/4.3 at Concordia UniversityBachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Engineering Science, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Engineering Science at University of Toronto
French, English, Chinese
Github Skills (9)
deep-q-network8
openai-gym8
q-learning7
deep-reinforcement-learning6
python6
reinforcement-learning5
machine-learning5
tensorflow4
openai3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
yingcongtan/yingcongtan.github.io
Jul 2022 - Sep 2024
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
yingcongtan/deep_inv_opt
Jan 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 5 months
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