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
- Winner, INFORMS ENRE Best Publication Award in Energy, 2022.
- Winner, MSOM Data Driven Research Challenge, 2022.
- 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.
- INFORMS SOLA Chuck ReVelle Rising Star Award, 2021.
- Best Paper Award Finalist, CSAMSE 2021.
- Best Student Paper Award Finalist, 2021 INFORMS Conference On Service Science.
- Distinguished Teaching Award - Top Undergraduate Teacher of Year 2019-2020 of Desautels Faculty of Management.
- 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 International Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 2009.
In the News
- 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.