Cofounder, Chief Scientist @foreva.ai

Tony Qin is Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Eva AI (foreva.ai), building voice AI agentic systems to supercharge business operations. Previously, he was Principal Scientist at Lyft Rideshare Labs and Director of the Decision Intelligence group at DiDi AI Labs, spearheaded the development of reinforcement learning (RL) for rideshare marketplace optimization. Tony received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from Columbia University. He is Associate Editor of the ACM Journal on Autonomous Transportation Systems. He has served as Area Chair/Senior PC of KDD, AAAI, and ECML-PKDD, and a referee of top journals.  He is an INFORMS Senior Member, a Franz Edelman Award Finalist and Laureate in 2023 and received the INFORMS Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice in 2019.