what i’m up to

I’m a fourth-year PhD candidate at MIT. I build large-scale orchestrated AI and optimization workflows for complex tasks.


things i’ve done

MIT (2023–2027) — PhD candidate with Prof. Patrick Jaillet. Working on optimizing large-scale agentic systems, with applications in solving open math problems and finance.

Stanford (2019–2023) — Honors degrees in Mathematics (B.S.) with Prof. Jonathan Luk and Philosophy (B.A.) with Prof. Michael Bratman. Undergraduate Honors thesis with Prof. Yinyu Ye. Journalist at Stanford Daily.

Meta (2025–now) — Research collaboration.

Amazon (2025, 2026) — PhD intern.


things i’ve built

ScaleMath A control and optimization system to scale up mathematical discovery. It has solved 200+ named open conjectures, primarily through counterexample construction, after 20k+ agent hours.

QuantamentalAI An agentic valuation system specializing in the pharmaceutical industry that forecasts FDA decisions, with a mechanism to control for look-ahead bias. [Dashboard]


places i’ve spoken

Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2025) | Berkeley Simons Institute (2023) | INFORMS Annual Meeting (2024, 2025, 2026) | INFORMS Optimization Society (2026) | INFORMS Applied Probability Society (2025) | ICML (2026)


what i think about

When One Request Becomes Many: Work-Stability Audits for Agentic LLM Workflows · coming soon Owen Shen, Patrick Jaillet

Which Version Did the Agent Use? Controlling Versioned LLM-Agent Workflows with Consumed Lineage · coming soon Owen Shen, Patrick Jaillet

Uncertainty Control for LLM-Parameterized Decision Pipelines · coming soon Owen Shen, Patrick Jaillet

Agentic Commerce: Robust Policy Audits under LLM Decision-Maker Shift · coming soon Owen Shen, Patrick Jaillet

Design of Large-Scale Agentic Workflow for Fundamental Analysis · coming soon With MIT LFE

Parameter-free BlockMDP · coming soon With Meta

When Price Bands Stabilize Black-Box Pricing Algorithms · coming soon Owen Shen, Jack Zhang, Saurabh Amin, Patrick Jaillet

End-to-End Learning of Correlated Operating Reserve Requirements in Security-Constrained Economic Dispatch Owen Shen, Hung-po Chao, Haihao Lu, Patrick Jaillet · arXiv

A Two-Layer Framework for Joint Online Configuration Selection and Admission Control · ICML 2026 Owen Shen, Haoran Xu, Yinyu Ye, Peter Glynn, Patrick Jaillet · arXiv

Choice-Model-Assisted Q-learning for Delayed-Feedback Revenue Management Owen Shen, Patrick Jaillet · arXiv

A Single-Sample Polylogarithmic Regret Bound for Nonstationary Online Linear Programming Haoran Xu, Owen Shen, Peter Glynn, Yinyu Ye, Patrick Jaillet · arXiv