Lily Xu

Lily Xu is Sun-Wu Assistant Professor at Columbia University in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. Her research develops AI methods across machine learning, optimization, and causal inference for planetary health challenges, with a focus on biodiversity conservation. She aims to enable practitioners to make effective decisions in the face of limited data, taking actions that are robust to uncertainty, effective at scale, and future-looking. Lily holds a PhD in computer science from Harvard University, and her research has been recognized with best paper runner-up at AAAI, the INFORMS Doing Good with Good OR award, a Google PhD Fellowship, a Siebel Scholarship, and AAMAS best dissertation runner-up.

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