GRANTS & AWARDS

Grants

• National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). Role: Principal Investigator. Title: Resilient Operations of Urban Lifeline Project Under Information Insufficiency. Length: 2023-2026. Total Amount: 2M RMB. Team members: Yong Liang, Junbo Zhang, Xun Zhang, Zihao Jiao, Maxime Cohen, Sheng Liu, Yexin Li, Lun Yu and Xiaoyu Duan.

• Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Partnership Engage Grant. Role: Co-investigator. Title: Introducing AI in Community Organizations: Designing and Implementing Smart Meals-on-Wheels Operations. Length: 2021-2022. Total Amount: $24,795. Team members: Juan Serpa (PI), Saibal Ray, Grant McKenzie, Graham MacDonald and Morty Yalovsky.

• CIHR’s Healthy Cities Research Initiative (HCRI). Role: Co-applicant. Title: The Implementing Smart Cities Interventions to Build Healthy Cities (SMART) Training Platform. Length: 2021-2027. Total Amount: $4.95 million. PIs: Laurette Dubé, David Ma, and Miyoung Suh.

• Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Société et la Culture (FRQSC) and National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Research Program on Smart Cities and Big Data. Role: Principal Investigator. Title: Data-Driven Smart City Operations Management: a System Coupling Perspective. Length: 2020-2023. Total Amount: $145,061 (Quebec Side). Team members: Maxime Cohen, Michel Gendreau, Xue (Steve) Liu.

• IVADO Funding Program for Fundamental Research Projects. Role: Principal Investigator. Title: Joint OR/ML Methodologies for Retail on Wheels. Length: 2020-2022. Total Amount: $171,645. Team members: Xue (Steve) Liu, Michelle Lu, Zuo-Jun Max Shen.

• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Discovery Grant. Role: Principal Investigator. Title: Towards a Smart-City Future: Urban-Scale Integration of Mobility and Energy Systems. Length: 2019-2024. Total Amount: $130,000 (Share: 100%).

• Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Early Career Supplement. Role: Principal Investigator. Title: Towards a Smart-City Future: Urban-Scale Integration of Mobility and Energy Systems. Length: 2019-2020. Total Amount: $12,500 (Share: 100%).

• Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Société et la Culture (FRQSC) New Researcher. Role: Principal Investigator. Title: Sharing Sustainable Mobility in Smart Cities. Length: 2019-2022. Total Amount: $45,000 (Share: 100%). ​
• Internal Social Sciences and Humanities Development Grant. Role: Principal Investigator. Title: Promoting Electrical Vehicle Sharing Through Integrated Planning and Operations. Length: 2018-2020. Total Amount: $6,200 (Share: 100%).

Awards

• Runner-up, INFORMS DAS (Decision Analysis Society) Student Paper Award, 2024, awarded to Genshen Fu.
• Finalist, MSOM Service SIG Best Paper Award, 2024.
• Third Place, POMS-China Best Paper Award, 2024.
• Third Place, CSAMSE Best Paper Award, 2024.
• Finalist, IISE Data Analytics & Information Systems Division Best Student Paper Competition, 2024, awarded to Haoran Guo.
• Finalist, POMS College of Service Operations Best Student Paper Competition, 2024, awarded to Genshen Fu.
• ​Winner, INFORMS TSL (Transportation Science & Logistics) Best Paper Award, 2023.
• Winner, INFORMS ENRE Best Publication Award in Energy, 2022.
• Winner, MSOM Data-Driven Research Challenge, 2022.
• INFORMS SOLA (Society of Location Analysis) Chuck ReVelle Rising Star Award, 2021.
• ​Distinguished Teaching Award - Top Undergraduate Teacher of Year 2019-2020 of Desautels Faculty of Management.
• Finalist, INFORMS Undergraduate Operations Research Prize, 2023, awarded to Zhuolun Dong. ​
• Second-Place Winner, INFORMS Service Science Best Cluster Paper Award, 2022.
• Third Place, Best Paper Award Competition, 2022 Digital Supply Chain and Supplier Diversity Conference.
• Honorable Mention, 2022 Student Paper Competition of College of Sustainable Operations of POMS.
• Best Paper Award Finalist, CSAMSE 2021.
• Best Student Paper Award Finalist, 2021 INFORMS Conference on Service Science.
• M&SOM Meritorious Service Award, 2020.
• M&SOM Meritorious Service Award, 2019.
• Top Downloaded Paper, 2018–2019, Production and Operations Management.
• AOL ACE Internship Award for Excellent Contribution, Palo Alto, CA, 2014.
• UC Berkeley Full Fellowship, 2011–2012
• UCLA Full Engineering Graduate Research Fellowship, 2010-2011.
• Outstanding Graduate of Zhejiang University, 2010.
• Certificate of Excellence, Chu Kochen Honors Program, 2010.
• Meritorious Winner of the International Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 2009.

In the News

• Self-driving cars let retailers bring the store to you. Medium, January 2024.
• A more decision-oriented and synergy-oriented paradigm for next-gen urban transportation. The Hill Times, March 2022.
• Can crowdshipping solve last-mile delivery shortages? Trucknews.com, December 2020.
• Can Smart Cities Be Smarter? Delve, February 2021.
• 2020 Virtual Smart-City Operations and Analytics Conference, on October 20, 2020.

Events

• ​2020 Virtual Smart-City Operations and Analytics Conference, on October 20, 2020.
• Talk on Citywide Mobility-Energy Orchestration at the Workshop on Smart Cities Optimization, Fields Institute, University of Toronto, on January 10, 2020.