Guanting Chen

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Guanting Chen
Assistant Professor
Department of Statistics and Operations Research
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Office: 355 Hanes Hall
Email: guanting[at]unc[dot]edu

Hello and welcome to my homepage. I began my position as an assistant professor at UNC in July 2022. Piror to that, I received my Ph.D. from the Institute of Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME) at Stanford University, where I was advised by Prof. Kay Giesecke and Prof. Yinyu Ye. I earned my B.S. in Mathematics at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

Research Interests

Large language models, sequential decision-making, reinforcement learning, and sustainable operations

Teaching

  • 2022 Fall: STOR 445 - Stochastic Modeling

  • 2023 Spring: STOR 305 - Introduction to Decision Analytics

  • 2023 Fall: STOR 743 - Reinforcement Learning and Markov Decision Processes