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Kuan Xu

Ph.D. Candidate, School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China.

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About Me

I am a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), and a visiting student at the National University of Singapore (NUS). My research focuses on learning-augmented optimization for routing and scheduling problems, including reinforcement learning and large language models for combinatorial optimization.


Education

  • National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore
    Visiting Ph.D. Student in Industrial Systems Engineering & Management (Feb. 2025 – Present)
    Supported by China Scholarship Council (CSC).
    Advisor: Zhisheng Ye.

  • University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei
    Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering (Sept. 2023 – Present)
    Advisor: Lindong Liu.

  • University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei
    M.S. in Data Science (Sept. 2021 – July 2023)
    Advisor: Zhouwang Yang.

  • South China University of Technology (SCUT), Guangzhou
    B.S. in Mathematics (Sept. 2017 – June 2021)
    Advisor: Shaohua Pan.

Research Interests

  • Routing: Vehicle Routing Problems (VRP) and practical variants
  • Scheduling: Job Shop Scheduling (incl. semiconductor-inspired constraints)
  • Learning: Reinforcement Learning, Graph Neural Network
  • LLMs: Heuristic Discovery, Fine-tunning




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