People

Group Members

Meet the members of the DSIS Laboratory, a research group developing AI, machine learning, data science, and optimization methods for intelligent systems.

Principal Investigator

Meng Zhao

Meng Zhao, Ph.D.

Dr. Meng Zhao joined Lehigh University as an Assistant Professor in July 2025 after completing her postdoctoral research at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She received her Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Florida.

Her research focuses on high-dimensional data modeling, tensor analytics, and multimodal representation learning, with applications in healthcare and intelligent system modeling.

She is a member of INFORMS and IISE and actively collaborates with researchers across engineering, medicine, and computer science.

Postdoctoral Researcher

Jiawei Guo

Jiawei Guo

Ph.D. Students

Saya Egashira

Saya Egashira

Jialiang Lei

Jialiang Lei

Undergraduate Students

Kai Puma Stehlik

Kai Puma Stehlik

Adonis Cusu

Adonis Cusu

Yanchen Xu

Yanchen Xu

Sondo Yoon

Sondo Yoon

Research Opportunities

Interested Lehigh graduate and undergraduate students are encouraged to contact Dr. Zhao regarding research opportunities, independent study, honors thesis projects, or research assistant roles.