Yuming Deng is a Research Scientist at Amazon.com, a position held since 2009. They earned a PhD in Operations Research from the University of Texas at Austin, where they also worked as a Research Assistant. Yuming completed a Master’s degree in Civil Engineering at the same institution and obtained a Bachelor's degree in Ocean Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Additionally, they participated in summer internships at Schlumberger and Austin Logistics in 2007 and 2006, respectively.