Mingyi He
Mingyi He

Applied Scientist AT AWS

Open to offers · Member since 11 Oct 2026
Location
Seattle, United States
Desired salary
Unspecified
Work preference
Remote Only
Experience level
Senior

About

Professional summary

I am an Applied Scientist with a Ph.D. in Transportation Systems from New York University, specializing in large-scale optimization, machine learning, and LLM-based systems.

I build production-oriented ML and optimization solutions, including reinforcement learning methods for vehicle routing, prompt optimization frameworks, and automated root-cause diagnostics for large-scale agent failures.

My technical background includes mathematical optimization, mixed-integer programming, deep learning, spatiotemporal modeling, and routing heuristics. I have worked with GCNs, self-attention, GRUs, LSTMs, autoencoders, Bayesian optimization, and commercial vehicle-routing solvers.

At Amazon, I apply reinforcement learning to improve column-generation workflows for vehicle routing and develop LLM-based diagnostic systems using CloudWatch and DynamoDB data. My work has achieved more than 99% root-cause analysis accuracy.

I also bring research and industry experience in transportation systems, mobility analytics, facility location, energy planning, and food-delivery optimization. My work has contributed to peer-reviewed publications and measurable operational savings.

I am experienced with Python, PyTorch, Gurobi, Pyomo, PySpark, scikit-learn, AWS SageMaker, and AWS Bedrock, and I enjoy translating advanced research into scalable practical systems.

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Applied Scientist Amazon

I apply reinforcement learning to accelerate decomposition-based column generation for large-scale vehicle routing problems. This work improves convergence speed compared with classical pricing heuristics.

I adapted Recursive Language Models to diagnose agent execution failures using CloudWatch logs and DynamoDB records, achieving more than 99% root-cause analysis accuracy and saving approximately four engineering hours per week. I also developed a Cross-Entropy Method-based automatic prompt-optimization framework that outperformed DsPy and GEPA on instruction-following tasks.

Product Engineer, Vehicle Routing Problem Team Esri

Created and implemented advanced heuristics for high-density vehicle routing problems within Esri's commercial VRP solver. The work optimized route efficiency and supported work-zone visualization.

Architected a Bayesian optimization framework for dynamic parameter tuning. This enabled routing algorithms to adapt across diverse operational contexts.

Research Assistant Center for Urban Science and Progress, New York University

Developed spatiotemporal traffic prediction models using graph convolutional networks, self-attention, and GRU architectures. These models surpassed existing benchmarks and supported geographically transferable modeling of vehicle behavior.

Implemented LSTM and autoencoder-based deep learning models for anomaly detection in transportation networks. Conducted research in urban mobility, transportation analytics, and predictive modeling.

Research Intern National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Applied mixed-integer programming to large-scale vehicle routing and facility-location problems. Implemented optimization heuristics that improved solution scalability for real-time decision-making.

Conducted eVTOL network planning and analysis for Los Angeles. Also developed mobility energy productivity metrics for Delaware and Florida.

Data Scientist Intern Jardine Restaurant Group

Optimized food-delivery operations for KFC, Pizza Hut, and PHD using multi-vehicle routing with time windows. Consolidated 50% of 20,000 trips in June 2020.

The optimization work generated approximately $90,000 in delivery-cost savings and reduced average customer wait time from 42 minutes to 37 minutes.

Education

Learning history

New York University

Ph.D., Transportation Systems

New York University

M.S., Applied Urban Science and Informatics

Harbin Institute of Technology

B.E., Urban and Rural Planning

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