Tony Z Qin

AI+Operations, INFORMS Senior Member, Franz Edelman Award Laureate, Daniel H. Wagner Prize Winner

[email protected], Ex Lyft/DiDi/Walmart; Columbia IEOR PhD

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Our first podcast deep-dive into how Eva, the multimodal restaurant agent works.
https://t.co/YXjgPUo9SS

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#INFORMS SF Bay Area Chapter In-Person Tech Talk - The Engineering of Speed (May 8, 2025) https://t.co/3tq218PU3G #Meetup via @Meetup

#supplychain #analytics #operationsresearch #optimization

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https://t.co/hewxw8ozi2

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Thrilled that https://t.co/xAS7Bzpl3k (Eva) has made it to a spot on the Restaurants map!

#voiceai #agents #a16z #restaurantops #restauranttech

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@DeepgramAI 👍 And we are having a really good experience with #deepgram models.

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🚀 Thrilled to finally receive and hold the printed copies of our new book, "Reinforcement Learning in the Ridesharing Marketplace"! 📚
https://t.co/xNFA8mILGE
#reinforcementlearning #ai #ridesharing #marketplace #optimization #operationsresearch #springer #agents

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Just noticed that @DeepgramAI has added Eva
(https://t.co/xAS7Bzpl3k) to their AI Apps Catalog: https://t.co/ak3W8jgGZX
Pretty neat page!

#voiceai #aiagents #restauranttech #restaurantops #smb #llm #ai #agentic

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This is hardcore engineering. 👍

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starship rocket booster caught by tower

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We (https://t.co/xAS7Bzpl3k) were there! It was a fun day (and evening) with like-minded founders and startups working on AI agents and pushing the boundary of what they can do.
Kudos to all the hosts, co-hosts, and sponsors for putting together this event!

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The legendary Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg keynoting at our agent hackathon

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Thanks
@PlugandPlayTC
University Pitch Sessions for organizing the event and the opportunity for us to present Eva AI (https://t.co/xAS7Bzpl3k)! Proud of being a member of the @UBC alumni entrepreneurial community!
#plugandplay #ubc #restaurantops #VoiceAI #AIagents #ai #llm

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Some casual thoughts about AI/LLM agents from a reinforcement learning perspective:
https://t.co/Gz5QSDbmG1

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Our new book, “Reinforcement Learning in the Ridesharing Marketplace”, which I have co-authored with @xiaochengtang, Qingyang Li, @hongtuzhu1 and Jieping Ye, is finally on the shelf!
https://t.co/xNFA8mIdR6
#reinforcementlearning #ridesharing #ai #marketplace #didi #lyft

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🚀 🚀 Eva has gone multilingual!

Multilingual voice AI agents add unique talent to restaurants and allow them to serve a much broader customer base with a familiar voice over the phone.
Spanish: https://t.co/VVBxEbcosk
Chinese: https://t.co/BUuDcZSlck

#EvaAI #VoiceAI #agentic

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Excited to share that I’ve joined with @jianmingzhou as Cofounder and Chief Scientist of Eva AI (https://t.co/1vfdikk6nQ)! We are building connected agentic AI systems to supercharge restaurant and small business operations.

#ai_agent #agentic_system #llm #multiagent #smb

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Timely multi-dimensional benchmarking for LLM APIs. Very resonating with my own experiences.

[Andrew Ng @AndrewYNg]

Shoutout to the team that built https://t.co/sJnTRDfHGF . Really neat site that benchmarks the speed of different LLM API providers to help developers pick which models to use. This nicely complements the LMSYS Chatbot Arena, Hugging Face open LLM leaderboards and Stanford's HELM that focus more on the quality of the outputs.

I hope benchmarks like this encourage more providers to work on fast token generation, which is critical for agentic workflows!

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It’s a great honor to be part of the inaugural cohort of INFORMS Senior Members. The OR community is at a unique position to play a pivotal role in advancing AI+Operations and landing AI applications that have profound impact to our everyday life.
#informs #operationsresearch #ai

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INFORMS Senior Membership Program Recognizes Dedicated Members
Congratulations to the first cohort of Senior Members! https://t.co/CCsK9fcIM1

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2023 is almost behind us. Here's my post recapping our published works over the year with our collaborators: https://t.co/lwlkbPW1xm
Looking forward to an exciting new year with lots of new possibilities in AI and operations!

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A Unified Representation Framework for Rideshare Marketplace Equilibrium and Efficiency | Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems https://t.co/JUtPWVqzju

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#KDD2023 @kdd_news Workshop on Decision Intelligence and Analytics for Online Marketplaces is in two weeks! URL: https://t.co/ktQU1a0dBV
Impressive lineup of keynote speakers and accepted papers. See you all at Long Beach on August 6! And DM me if you wanna chat about DI & RL!

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Submission deadline extended to May 30 (AoE). Workshop URL: https://t.co/9fnGc1Tgml
Submit your papers on multi-sided marketplaces today!

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Submission closes on May 25 for the 2nd Workshop on Decision Intelligence and Analytics for Online Marketplaces at #KDD2023 @kdd_news ! We welcome full papers and extended abstracts. Submit your paper today at https://t.co/cjgUHdjn4p.