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WEIRAN YAO

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My name is Weiran Yao. I am a PhD student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Before joining MAC, I spent one year working as a research assistant in City University of Hong Kong. I applied social media analytics into the design decision support of Transit-Oriented development in Hong Kong. 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

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  • Network effects of technologies

  • Approximate dynamic programming, reinforcement learning

  • Last/first-mile, vehicle routing, ridesharing

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