New Ph.D. Students Join iUTS
Zepu Wang 
Chris Ritthikarn
iUTS welcomes two new Ph.D. students: Peeratach (Chris) Ritthikarn and Zepu Wang. Chris Ritthikarn is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) and joined the iUTS lab in Winter 2024. His research interests lie at the intersection of optimization tools and their applications in transportation networks, such as the EV station allocation problem. Before enrolling at UW, he earned a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Rochester and an M.S. degree in Management Science and Engineering from Columbia University. Chris then worked as a research intern at MPI, where he focused on combinatorial optimization and matching problems. In his free time, he enjoys soccer, Formula One, as well as history and cooking. Zepu Wang is a first-year Ph.D. student in the iTUS lab. His research interests include time series analysis and spatiotemporal data mining, with a particular focus on machine learning and deep learning. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Data Science from Duke Kunshan University in China and a Master’s degree in Data Science from the University of Pennsylvania. In his free time, he enjoys playing board games, working out, swimming, and hiking. Welcome both Chris and Zepu!
