People

Principal Investigator

Lu Lu

• Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science
• lu.lu@yale.edu
• Office: Kline Tower, Room 1061, 219 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511
• Mailing address: Kline Tower, Room 1061, 266 Whitney Ave, New Haven, CT 06511
• Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, 2021–2023
• Applied Mathematics Instructor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020–2021
• Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, Brown University
• M.Sc. in Computer Science, M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics, M.Sc. in Engineering, Brown University
• B.Eng. in Energy, Power System and Automation, B.Ec. in Economics, Minor in Computer Technology and Application, Tsinghua University
• Google Scholar, ResearchGate, ORCID, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Curriculum Vitae

Postdocs

Ph.D. Students

Mitchell Daneker

• Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
• mitchell.daneker@yale.edu
• B.S. in Chemistry, B. of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware
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Min Zhu

• Statistics and Data Science
• min.zhu@yale.edu
• M.S.E. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
• B.Eng. in Chemical Engineering and Industrial Biological Engineering, Tsinghua University
• Google Scholar

Anran Jiao

• Statistics and Data Science
• anran.jiao@yale.edu
• M.S.E. in Data Science, University of Pennsylvania
• B.S. in Applied Physics, Nankai University

Langchen Liu

• Statistics and Data Science
• langchen.liu@yale.edu
• B.S. in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, Duke Kunshan University

Jonathan Lee

• Chemical and Environmental Engineering
• jonathan.eunsuk.lee@yale.edu
• B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
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Joel Hayford

• Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
• joel.hayford@yale.edu
• B.S. in Chemical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Master's Students

Handi Zhang

• Applied Mathematics and Computational Science
• handi@sas.upenn.edu
• B.S. in Applied Mathematics, B.A. in Economics, University of California San Diego

Ziyi Huang

• Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
• hziyi@seas.upenn.edu
• B.S. in Biological Science, Zhejiang University

Undergraduate Students

Eric Myzelev

• Mathematics
• myzelev@sas.upenn.edu
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Caroline Chen

• Computer Science
• chencaro@seas.upenn.edu

Wendy Deng

• Computational Biology, & Computer Science
• haoyund@sas.upenn.edu

Yijia (Laura) Li

• Mathematics, & Computer Science
• liyijia@sas.upenn.edu

Lakshman Swaminathan

• Computer Science, & Mathematics
• lswamina@sas.upenn.edu
• LinkedIn

Mishael Majeed

• Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, & Economics
• mishael@sas.upenn.edu
• LinkedIn

Nitish Kaza

• Mathematics, & Economics
• nkaza@sas.upenn.edu
• LinkedIn

Tony Zhou

• Mathematics, Computer Science, & Philosophy
• hyy0501@sas.upenn.edu

Stephen Xia

• Mathematics, & Computer Science
• stephen.xia@yale.edu
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Shivesh Mehrotra

• Statistics and Data Science
• shivesh.mehrotra@yale.edu

Andy Yang

• Statistics and Data Science
• andy.yang@yale.edu

High School Students

Jacob Goldman-Wetzler

• Hastings High School

Eric Wang

• MIT’s PRIMES-USA program

Uma Xin Shukla

• La Canada High School
• uma.xin.shukla@gmail.com

Alumni

1. Benjamin Fan, High school student (MIT’s PRIMES-USA program), 2022–2023 → Undergraduate student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2. Edward Qiao, High school student (MIT’s PRIMES-USA program), 2022–2023 → Undergraduate student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3. Chenxi Wu, Master’s student (Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering), 2021–2022 → PhD student, Brown University
4. Shuai Meng, Master’s student (Data Science), 2021–2022 → PhD student, University of California, Berkeley
5. Jeremy Yu, High school student (MIT’s PRIMES-USA program), 2021–2022 → Undergraduate student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology