Research

Ongoing Works

Switchback Experiments under Stochastically Monotone Markov Chains
with Jose H. Blanchet, Ramesh Johari, Peter Glynn, Linjia Wu
Analyze switchback experiment design under temporal (Markovian) interference modeled by stochastically monotone Markov chains.

Experimental Design under Non-stationary Environments
with Ramesh Johari, Tianyi Peng
Study experimental design and treatment effect estimation in non-stationary environments modeled as partially observed Markov chains.

Online Learning for Reward-Driven and Congestion-Aware Service Rate Control
with Yue Hu, Anand Kalvit, Vahid Sarhangian
Manage the trade-off between unknown stochastic rewards and congestion using an online learning approach.

Publications & Preprints

Black-Box Optimization with Implicit Constraints for Public Policy [Code]
Wenqian Xing, JungHo Lee, Chong Liu, Shixiang Zhu
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2025
Refereed Paper, INFORMS Optimization Society Conference 2024

Generalized Hypercube Queuing Models with Overlapping Service Regions [Code]
Shixiang Zhu, Wenqian Xing, Yao Xie
Major revision at Transportation Science

Optimal Unit Locations in Emergency Service Systems with Bayesian Optimization
Cheng Hua, Arthur J. Swersey, Wenqian Xing
Best Paper (Finalist), INFORMS Conference on Service Science 2022
Best Student Paper (Finalist), POMS International Conference 2022

Multi-Priority Patient Transfer under Ambulance Offload Delay [Code]
Wenqian Xing, Cheng Hua
Major revision at Production and Operations Management
Best Student Paper (2nd Place), INFORMS Conference on Service Science 2021

NuSC: An Effective Local Search Algorithm for Solving the Set Covering Problem [Code]
Chuan Luo, Wenqian Xing, Shaowei Cai, Chunming Hu
IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics 2022

Predictive Job Scheduling under Uncertain Constraints in Cloud Computing [Code]
Dong Hang, Boshi Wang, Bo Qiao, Wenqian Xing, Chuan Luo et al.
International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) 2021

Correlation-aware Heuristic Search for Intelligent Virtual Machine Provisioning in Cloud Systems
Chuan Luo, Bo Qiao, Wenqian Xing, Xin Chen et al.
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) 2021