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%).
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  • 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.
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