GRANTS & AWARDS

Selected Grants

At Tsinghua University

1. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).
   Program: Special Program.
   Role: Principal Investigator.
   Title: Resilient Operations of Urban Lifeline Systems Under Information Insufficiency.
   Period: Jan. 2023–Dec. 2026.
   

2. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).
   Program: Innovative Research Group Program.
   Role: Core Member.
   Title: Public Safety Emergency Management.
   Period: Jan. 2026–Dec. 2030.
   

3. Chongqing Science and Technology Bureau.
   Program: Science and Technology Innovation Key R&D Program.
   Role: Subproject Leader.
   Title: Intelligent Vehicle Information Service Platforms and Key Technologies.
   Period: Jun. 2025–May 2028.
   

4. JD.com (Industry Sponsor).
   Role: Principal Investigator.
   Title: AI-Enabled Demand Forecasting and Inventory Optimization for Supply Chains.
   Period: Aug. 2025–Jul. 2027.
   

5. Meituan (Industry Sponsor).
   Role: Principal Investigator.
   Title: Agentic Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Period Supply–Demand Scheduling in Bike-Sharing Systems.
   Period: Jun. 2026–May 2027.
   

6. Tsinghua University–Fuzhou Municipal People’s Government Joint Research Institute.
   Role: Principal Investigator.
   Title: Integrated Ground Transportation and Low-Altitude Mobility Systems for Urban Public Services.
   Period: Sep. 2024–Jun. 2025.
   

   At McGill University

7. 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.
   Period: 2020-2023.
   

8. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Development Grant.
   Role: Principal Investigator.
   Title: Tackling Inequality in Urban On-demand Bikeshare Services.
   Period: 2020-2023.
   

9. IVADO Funding Program for Fundamental Research Projects.
   Role: Principal Investigator.
   Title: Joint OR/ML Methodologies for Retail on Wheels.
   Period: 2020-2022.
   

10. 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. Period: 2019-2024.

11. 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.
    Period: 2019-2020.
    

12. Fonds Québécois de la Recherche sur la Société et la Culture (FRQSC) New Researcher.
    Role: Principal Investigator.
    Title: Sharing Sustainable Mobility in Smart Cities.
    Period: 2019-2022.
    • Ranked 1st/12 in the evaluation group.

Awards

1. Winner, INFORMS ENRE Best Publication Award in Energy, 2025.
2. Winner, INFORMS ENRE Best Publication Award in Natural Resources, 2025.
3. Winner, INFORMS TSL (Transportation Science & Logistics) Best Paper Award, 2023.
4. Winner, MSOM Data Driven Research Challenge, 2022.
5. Winner, INFORMS ENRE Best Publication Award in Energy, 2022.
6. Winner, INFORMS SOLA (Society of Location Analysis) Chuck ReVelle Rising Star Award, 2021.
7. Fetherstonhaugh Family Foundation Distinguished Teaching Award - Top Undergraduate Teacher of Year 2019-2020 of Desautels Faculty of Management.
8. Selected as an Outstanding Achievement of NSFC-Funded Projects during China’s 14th Five-Year Plan, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 2025.
9. Selected for the 2025 Showcase of NSFC-Funded Research Achievements, National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), 2026.
10. Outstanding Faculty Recognition, Tsinghua University, 2025.
11. Winner, CSAMSE Best Paper Award, 2026.
12. Second Place, CSAMSE Practice Award, 2026.
13. Finalist, INFORMS PSOR Best Paper Award, 2025.
14. Second Place, CSAMSE Practice Award, 2025.
15. Finalist, MSOM Service SIG Best Paper Award, 2024.
16. Third Place, POMS-China Best Paper Award, 2024.
17. Third Place, CSAMSE Best Paper Award, 2024.
18. Winner, Best Paper Award of the Chinese Industrial Engineering Institute of CMES, 2024.
19. Second-Place Winner, INFORMS Service Science Best Cluster Paper Award, 2022.
20. Third Place, Best Paper Award Competition, 2022 Digital Supply Chain and Supplier Diversity Conference.
21. Best Paper Award Finalist, CSAMSE 2021.
22. M&SOM Meritorious Service Award, 2025.
23. M&SOM Meritorious Service Award, 2020.
24. M&SOM Meritorious Service Award, 2019.

25. Top Downloaded Paper, 2018-2019, Production and Operations Management.

    • Student Awards
26. Winner (top 1 out of 43), INFORMS TSL Best Student Paper Award, 2025, awarded to Haoran Guo.
27. Finalist, INFORMS Undergraduate Operations Research Prize, 2025, awarded to Lingjie Zhao.
28. Finalist, INFORMS Undergraduate Operations Research Prize, 2023, awarded to Zhuolun Dong.
29. Winner, INFORMS TSL Cross-regional Doctoral Grant, 2025, awarded to Haoran Guo.
30. Runner-Up, CORS Transportation and Logistics SIG Gilbert Laporte Student Paper Award, 2026, Awarded to Yan Zhang.
31. Grand Prize (Algorithm Track), 20th “Dongfeng Nissan Cup” Tsinghua IE National Industrial Engineering Innovation Competition, 2025, awarded to Kaile Yan, Jiaxin Chen, and Wei Zhao (co-advised with Fang He).
32. 2026 Beijing Outstanding Graduate and Tsinghua University Outstanding Bachelor’s Thesis, awarded to Wei Zhao.
33. 2025 Tsinghua University Outstanding Graduate and Beijing Outstanding Graduate, awarded to Lingjie Zhao.
34. 2024 Tsinghua University Outstanding Graduate and Beijing Outstanding Graduate, awarded to Haoran Guo.
35. Finalist, POMS College of Supply Chain Management Best Student Paper Competition, 2025, awarded to Zhuolun Dong.
36. Runner-up, INFORMS DAS (Decision Analysis Society) Student Paper Award, 2024, awarded to Genshen Fu.
37. Finalist, IISE Data Analytics & Information Systems Division Best Student Paper Competition, 2024, awarded to Haoran Guo.
38. Finalist, POMS College of Service Operations Best Student Paper Competition, 2024, awarded to Genshen Fu.
39. Honorable Mention, 2022 Student Paper Competition of POMS College of Sustainable Operations.
40. Best Student Paper Award Finalist, 2021 INFORMS Conference On Service Science.

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.

Service

• Executive Committee Member and Secretary-General, Operations Research Society of China (ORSC) Data Science and Operations Intelligence Section (Founding).

• Guest editor, the Networks – An international journal.
• Associate editor, Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research.
• Youth Editorial Board Member, Engineering Management.

• Youth Editorial Board Member, Innovation Informatics.

• Ad hoc reviewers for Operations Research, Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Nature Computational Science, Naval Research Logistics, IISE Transactions, Service Science, Transportation Science, Decision Sciences, Omega, Journal of Cleaner Production, Computers & Operations Research, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, IEEE Intelligent Systems, IEEE Access, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, International Transactions on Electrical Energy Systems, Transportation Research Part B, Transportation Research Part D, Transportation Research Part E, Journal of Intelligent Systems, Solar Energy, Energies, Energy Policy, Nature Computational Science.

• Co-organizer, Inaugural Annual Conference of the ORSC Data Science and Operations Intelligence Section, Beijing, September 2024.
• Co-organizer, 2020 Virtual Smart-City Operations and Analytics Conference, Montreal, October 2020.
• Co-organizer, Fashion Retailing Conference, Montreal, April 2018.
• Invited Conference Program Committee Member, MSOM Annual Meeting, Banff, Canada, June 2020.
• Invited Conference Cluster Chair, Environmental Operations Management Track, POMS Annual Meeting, Washington DC, 2019.
• Invited Conference Cluster Chair, Transportation and Logistics Cluster, CORS Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada, 2021.
• Invited Discussant, Sustainable OM Special Interest Group, MSOM Annual Conference, University of Texas, Dallas, July 2018.

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.