Meichen Song

Groseclose Postdoctoral Fellow · School of Industrial and Systems Engineering · Georgia Institute of Technology

Office: ISyE Main 324 · Email: msong97@gatech.edu · CV

Portrait of Meichen Song

About Me

I am a Groseclose Postdoctoral Fellow at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE), Georgia Institute of Technology, working with Professor Enlu Zhou. I received my Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Statistics from Stony Brook University in 2025 under the supervision of Professor Jiaqiao Hu.

My research focuses on developing simulation-based optimization algorithms for black-box stochastic systems under uncertainty, with the goal of quantifying and optimizing unknown risk functions. A central theme of my current work is Bayesian risk optimization and its applications to risk-averse Markov Decision Processes and reinforcement learning.

Research Interests

Selected Publications

  1. J. Hu, M. Song, M. C. Fu (2024). Quantile Optimization via Multiple Timescale Local Search for Black-box Functions. Operations Research. link DOI: 10.1287/opre.2022.0534
  2. J. Hu, M. Song, M. C. Fu, Y. Peng (2024). Simulation Optimization of Conditional Value-at-Risk. IISE Transactions.
  3. M. Song, J. Hu, M. C. Fu (2023). Simultaneous Perturbation-Based Stochastic Approximation for Quantile Optimization. Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) pp. 3565–3576. link Best Contributed Theoretical Paper — Finalist; DOI: 10.1109/WSC60868.2023.10408706
  4. M. Song, et al. (2023). Differentiable Arbitrating in Zero-sum Markov Games. AAMAS 2023. link Oral presentation.
  5. X. Zhao, M. Song, et al. (2020). Data‑Driven Temporal‑Spatial Model for the Prediction of AQI in Nanjing. Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing Research, 10(4), 255–270. link DOI: 10.2478/jaiscr-2020-0017

Teaching

Contact

Office: ISyE Main 324 · Email: msong97@gatech.edu