Group

Prospective Ph.D. applicants interested in joining the group are encouraged to apply through ORFE and list Jason as a potential advisor.

Postdoctoral Researchers

  • Eric Xia
    • Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University, October 2025-Present

Doctoral Students

  • Thierry Rioual (co-advised with Matias Cattaneo)
    • Ph.D. in Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University, expected 2030
  • Xialu Zheng (co-advised with Jianqing Fan)
    • Ph.D. in Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University, expected 2030
  • Jiahao Shi
    • Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University, expected 2029
  • Chang Yu
    • Ph.D. in Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University, expected 2028
  • Sijin Chen
    • Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University, expected 2028
  • Xin Chen
    • Ph.D. in Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University, expected 2026

Former Members

  • Omar Hagrass
    • DataX Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University, July 2024-August 2026
    • Next position: Postdoctoral Research Associate in Statistics, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford
  • Cheng Gao (co-advised with Jianqing Fan)
    • Ph.D. in Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University, 2024
    • Thesis: “Transfer Learning and Optimization Theory for Large-Scale Models”
    • Initial placement: Quantitative Researcher at DRW Holdings, LLC
  • Peter Tian
    • Ph.D. in Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University, 2023
    • Thesis: “Statistical Guarantees For Adaptive Recursive Partitioning Based Estimators”
    • Initial placement: Quantitative Researcher at Two Sigma Investments, LP