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Left: The RIA Research group at the Rutgers Energy Lab next to the RIA Solar Testbed (Photo taken in Summer 2021). Right: The RIA Research Group social get-together in Highland Park (Photo taken in Spring 2023)

 

Principal Investigator and Lab Director: Dr. Ahmed Aziz Ezzat

 

Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Rutgers University.

Scholarly Affiliate, Rutgers AI & Data Science (RAD) Collaboratory

Faculty Affiliate, Rutgers Climate & Energy Institute (RCEI).

PhD in Industrial & Systems Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2019

Professional Affiliations: INFORMS, IISE, IEEE, IIF.

Biography (for invited talks): Dr. Aziz Ezzat’s Biography

Curriculum Vitae: AzizEzzat-CV

Links: Google Scholar; LinkedIn.

 

 

Post-doctoral Associates & Ph.D. Researchers: 

 

Yating Fang

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Rutgers Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (RAD) Collaboratory, Rutgers University, 2025 – Present. 

Ph.D. in Industrial & Systems Engineering, Rutgers University, 2025

Professional Affiliations: INFORMS, IISE, IEEE.

Research Interests: Physics-Informed & Scientific ML, Deep Learning, Materials & Industrial Informatics

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Jiaxiang Ji

 

Ph.D. student in Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rutgers University.

M.A., Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2022.

B.S., Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Nankai University, 2021.

Research Interests: Spatio-Temporal Machine Learning, AI for Energy & Environment.

 

 

 

 

Keyi Wang (PhD Researcher)

 

Jungmin Kim (PhD Researcher)

M.S., Industrial Engineering, Seoul National University, 2022.

B.S., Industrial and Management Engineering, Korea University, 2020.

Research Interests: Machine Learning, Data Mining.

 

 

 

 

Yupei Shu (PhD Researcher)

Ph.D. student in Industrial & Systems Engineering, Rutgers University.

M.S., Operations Research, Columbia University, 2024.

B.A., Mathematics, Rutgers University, 2022.

Research Interests: Physics-Informed ML, Spatio-Temporal Data Science, Industrial AI

LinkedIn:  www.linkedin.com/in/yupeishu

 

 

 

Undergraduate Researchers: 

Michael Mesham (Undergraduate Researcher) 

Murat Turkeli (Undergraduate Researcher)  

 

 

 

Former Lab Members:

PhDs: 
  • Petros Papadopoulos (2023), Now with Metlen Energy, Greece.
  • Feng Ye (2025), Now Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Industrial Engineering at Clemson University, USA.
  • Yating Fang (2025), Now Postdoc Fellow in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science (RAD), Rutgers Univ., USA
MSc (Thesis):  
  • Bhavya Jain (2021), Now with Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as a Data Scientist.
  • Praanjal Nasery (2021), Now with EPRI as Wind Energy Scientist.
  • Cory Petersen (2025), Now with Lockheed Martin as Industrial Engineer.
MS (Research): 
  • Vaibhav Panchal (2022), Now Senior Data Scientist at Rivian.
  • Rushil Patel (2022), Now with Wayfair as a Supply Chain & Operations Engineer
  • Vinay Kolanuvada (2022).
  • Dhiraj Bagul (2023), Now with Barclays as a Software Developer
  • Yiming Deng (2022).
  • Xinxi Zhang (2024), Now a PhD Student in Computer Science at Rutgers University
  • Priyank Patel (2024), Now with Humanscale as a Product Engineer
  • Sai Srichandra Ravuri (2025). 
  • Peter Adly Malak (2025). 
  • Abdelrahman Sawy (2025). 
  • Fabio Gunderson (2025), Now a Data Scientist at Johnson & Johnson
Undergraduate (Research): 
  • Irfan Peer (2020), Now with Deloitte as an Analyst.
  • Jeffery Delva (2020).
  • Fabio Gunderson (2020), Now a Data Scientist at Johnson & Johnson.
  • Xiangyue (Max) Wang (2021), Now a PhD student in Quantum Computing at University of Oxford.
  • Dev Patel (2021), Now with Samsung as Data Scientist.
  • Soham Palande (2021), Now with JP Morgan as a Research Associate.
  • Shreya Jain (2021).
  • Hamidu Barrie (2023), Now with Merck as Associate Specialist Engineer.
  • Andrei Dimitriu (2023).
  • Katherine Moreira (2023), Now with Sargent & Lundy as a Nuclear Power Engineer.
  • Althea Miquela (2023), Now with L3-Harris as an Operations Engineer and MS student at Georgia Tech
  • Nicholas Percarpio (2024), Now with Colgate-Palmolive as Supply Chain Associate.
  • Vishnu Iyengar (2024), Now pursuing an MS in Business and Science at Rutgers.
  • Prisha Bhamre (2025)
  • Briana Worrell (2025)
  • Nathaniel Vinoya (2025), Now with U.S. Air Force as Operations Research Analyst.
  • Jeeva Ramasamy, (2025), Now pursing MS in Computer Science at Georgia Tech.
High School Interns: 
  • Dylan Liu-Walter (2020), Millburn High School, NJ.
  • Winston Ni (2022), Princeton Day School, NJ.
  • Andy Xu (2022), Millburn High School, NJ.