Personal experience
Bio
Hi, I am Aoran, a third-year Ph.D. candidate in Data and System Engineering (https://www.dase.hku.hk/ ) at the University of Hong Kong, advised by Professor Zuo-Jun "Max" Shen (https://shen.ieor.berkeley.edu/) and Professor Yong-Hong Kuo (https://sites.google.com/site/yonghongkuo/home#h.p_ID_38） I finished my undergraduate study at UW-Madison majoring in Applied Math and minoring in Physics. My Ph.D. concentration focuses on Air Drones Firefighting. Part of this work led me to win the best student work award at the 7th International Fire Behavior & Fuel Conference. Framework of this work present at Xiong'An New Area, more than 200,000 people became familiar with our tools through the social media !
I founded Alura AI, a beauty tech company that improves people's facial conditions. I am proud to serve as the Chairman of the 10th HKU IEPGA.
Flash News
Our work, Fire Rescue Missions Utilize Air Drone Carriers, will be presented at the 2024 Informs Annual Meeting. On Sunday, I am chairing the session SA24 Optimizing Environmental Management Simulation and Bio-economics.
Basic Info
Name: Aoran Cheng (程奥然)
Birthday: March 8th, 2002
Telephone: +852 51689607
Location: Central and Western District, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong SAR
Wechat: Jason114515238
Email: acheng39@connect.hku.hk/acheng39@wisc.edu/aoran@alurahk.com
Education
2022.10 -- Ongoing Ph.D. in IMSE @ HKU
2020.09 -- 2022.08 B.S. in Applied Math @ UW-Madison
2017.01 -- 2020.06 High School Degree@ Ulink-Suzhou
Academic Interest
I am interested in anything about smarter firefighting, not only smart quenching, but also fire behavior analysis. For my Ph.D. thesis, I delve into Smart Wild-land Firefighting under the OR/ML framework by Air Drones. Specifically, drones can be used in both Wildfire and Cities Firefighting. On the methodological side, I like developing prescriptive analytics methods converters data with domain knowledge in Wildfire Spreading and Swarms Cooperation to make the final decisions by Mechanism Design and Inverse Optimization methods. I welcome everyone to convey the idea to me. Let us help the community become much better than before.
Outside Academia
Outside academia, I am also interested in entrepreneurship. I was the founder and project manager of a startup that provided reliable data references via machine learning methods to help students with college applications. I’m always open to any entrepreneurial opportunity. Please feel free to contact me anytime for a possible partnership!
Industrial Experience
I always appreciate my experiences in the industry. I worked for L'Oréal Asia Pacific from Jun 2021 to Sep 2021 as the Product Manager &Data Analyst Intern. Nikhil Jain (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikhiljain07/?originalSubdomain=cn) and Yiwen Liu (https://www.linkedin.com/in/yiwen-liu-710b07a2/?originalSubdomain=cn) are my mentors at L'Oréal. L'Oréal Data APAC is a vibrant group. You can contact Prashanth S. Nagaraja (https://www.linkedin.com/in/prashanth-s-nagaraja/?originalSubdomain=cn) directly if you want to learn more.
Before that, I worked as the Product Manager Intern for Taiyuan Show-Treap Technology Limited Company. My mentor at Show-Treap is Ruikai Dou.
Selected Working Paper
My talk at Guangzhou about Low Altitude Airspace Economy.
"Fire Rescue Missions Utilize Air Drone Carriers" (with Mr. Shijie Pan, Dr. Kai Kang, Dr. Yiqi Sun, Dr. Cristóbal Pais Martínez, Prof. Yulun Zhou, and Prof. Zuo-Jun "Max" Shen)
~The article proposes a state-of-the-art framework for wildfire firefighting.
- March 2024 @HKU Urban Planning
- April 2024 @7th International Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference
Best Student Work Awardee (Poster).
- July 2024 @2th International Conference of Smart Firefighting
Session Chair for Firefighting and Emergency Response.
- Aug 2024 @ Xiong'an New Area, Hong Kong Talents' Trip to Xiong'an 香港英才北京行
More than 200,000 people became familiar with this project through media.
- Oct 2024 @2024 Informs Annual Meeting
Session Chair for SA24: Optimizing Environmental Management: Simulation & Bio-economics
"Using Air Drone to Stop Wildfire: A Predict-then-optimize Approach" (with Mr. Shijie Pan, Dr. Kai Kang, Dr. Yiqi Sun, Dr. Cristóbal Pais Martínez, Prof. Yulun Zhou, and Prof. Zuo-Jun "Max" Shen)
~The article proposes a predict-then-optimize application in fire rescue.
~ Prelim version https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.16144
- Sep 2024 @Beijing Exchange on Wildfire Prevention Policies and Key Technologies.
林火防治政策和关键技术交流
Work In Progress
‘‘Drones Swarm Firefighting via Inverse Optimization and Reinforcement Learning’’
"Swarm Intelligence via Mechanism Design"
"Adaptive Wildfire Band"
Teaching/Tutorial History
2022 Fall:
TA @ HKU IMSE2134 (Intro To OR)
- Instructor: Prof. Wenjie Huang
- TAs: Jessie Han and Aoran Cheng
- Class size: 26 persons
2023 Spring:
TA @ HKU IMSE4136 (Transportation and Distribution Planning)
- Instructor: Prof. Yong-Hong Kuo
- TAs: Jessie Han, Yan Yimo, and Aoran Cheng
- Class size: 30 persons
2023 Fall:
TA @ HKU IMSE2134 (Intro To OR)
- Instructor: Prof. Wenjie Huang
- TAs: Junjie Lei, Shijie Pan and Aoran Cheng
- Class size: 27 persons
2023 Spring:
TA @ HKU IMSE4136 (Transportation and Distribution Planning)
- Instructor: Prof. Yong-Hong Kuo
- TAs: Qihao Wu, Yan Yimo, and Aoran Cheng
- Class size: 27 persons
Inspired from...
Prof. Yulun Zhou [HKU Architecture]
Prof. Te Ke [CUHK Business School]
Prof. Sheng Liu [Toronto Business School]
Prof. Shaochong lin [HKU IMSE]
Prof. Kai Kang & Prof. BQ Tan [Shenzhen]
Dr. Sibo Cheng [Imperial IDS]
Dr. Cristóbal Pais Martínez [Amazon]
Dr. Yiqi Sun [HKSTP]
Mr. Shijie Pan [JHU}
Update in Sep 2th 2024
Fire Rescue Missions Utilize Air Drone Carriers to let more than 200,000 people in Xiong' An New Area become familiar with Air Drone Firefighting!