Zhenglin Wei is a Ph.D. candidate in the Systems Engineering program at the George Washington University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science. Zhenglin earned his Master of Science degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Lehigh University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Systems Science and Engineering, with a concentration in Financial Engineering, from the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (USST) in China. Previously, he worked on several data-based optimization, simulation, operations research, and information theory projects involved in healthcare, logistics, supply chain, and financial systems. Zhenglin’s academic interests are Systems Engineering, Systems Architecture, Decision Making and Policy Modeling, and Health System Optimization.