About Me

Hello! My name is Tenglong Hong, and I am an incoming Ph.D. student specializing in transportation engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles, starting in Spring 2026. I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Youngseo Kim. My research focuses on designing efficient data-driven decision-making solutions for agents operating under uncertainty in complex, interconnected transportation and logistics systems.

Currently, I am working as a research assistant in the IEOR department at UC Berkeley under the supervision of Prof. Paul Grigas, focusing on decision-focused learning methods and their applications. Previously, I also had the opportunity to collaborate with Prof. Yu Zhang at SWUFE and Prof. Daniel Zhuoyu Long at CUHK during my undergraduate studies.

Research Interests

• Data-driven decision making under uncertainty
• Decision Focused Learning and Integrate Prediction and Optimization
• Distributionally Robust optimization
• Transportation and Logistics

Education

• Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 2026 -
• MEng. in Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley, 2024 - 2025
• B.S. in Operations Management, University of Delaware, 2020 - 2024
• B.S. in Operations Management, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, 2020 - 2024 (Dual Degree)