I am an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Before UTK, I completed my PhD in operations research at Georgia Tech, where I was advised by George Lan. I also spent summers at Argonne, NLR, and Berkeley Lab.
Office: 521 John D. Tickle
Email: cju2 [at] utk [dot] edu
Interests: stochastic optimization, reinforcement learning, applications to power systems.
For students: I am hiring one PhD student starting in Fall 2027. If you are interested, please send a short, personalized email with your CV and transcript attached.