Activities
Technical Presentations
Workforce Allocation in Motorcycle Transmission Assembly Lines: A Case Study on Modeling, Analysis, and Improvement, IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Hongkong, China, August 2020 (virtual, contributed talk).
A Learning-based Optimization Framework for Production Planning and Scheduling, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Knoxville, TN, February 2020.
Models and Algorithms for Large-Scale Optimization Problems, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Knoxville, TN, February 2019.
A Decision Making Approach for Agriculture Variety Selection via Hedging Against Weather Risk, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Houston, TX, October 2017 (invited talk).
Improving the General 0-1 MIQP Solver by Decomposition Linearization Technique, IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Workshop on Data Analytical Approach for Large-scale Optimization, Xi’an, China, August 2017 (invited talk).
A Decision Making Approach for Soy Seed Variety Selection via Hedging Against Weather Risk, INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics and Operations Research, Las Vegas, NV, April 2017 (invited talk, Second Place - INFORMS Syngenta Crop Challenge in Analytics).
Order Scheduling For A Class Of Electronic Ceramic Manufacturers In Make To Order Environments, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN, November 2016 (contributed talk).
Two-stage Flow Shop with a Batch Processor and Limited Buffer, IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Fort Worth, TX, August 2016 (contributed talk).
Production Planning for a Class of Batch Processing Problem, IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Gothenberg, Sweden, August 2015 (contributed talk).
Approximation Method to Rank-One Binary Matrix factorization, IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Taiwan, August 2014 (contributed talk).
A Unified Framework of Linearization Techniques for 0-1 Quadratic Programming, The 1st Doctoral Consortium of Industrial Engineering of China, Xibaipo, China, December 2013 (contributed talk, Best Paper Award).
A Unified Framework of Linearization Techniques for 0-1 Quadratic Programming, The 3rd Management Science and Engineering Forum of China, Beijing, China, December 2013 (contributed talk, Best Paper Award).
A Linearized Model and Nested Partitions Heuristics for VMAT Radiation Treatment Planning Optimization, IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Madison, WI, August 2013 (contributed talk).
A Novel Quadratic Formulation for Customer Order Scheduling Problem, IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, Madison, WI, August 2013 (contributed talk).
Professional Memberships
Member of Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE)
Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Member of Production and Operations Management Society (POMS)
Member of Institute for Operations Research and the Management Science (INFORMS)
Member of American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
Review Experience
International Journal of Production Research
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Automatica
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
IEEE Access
IISE Transactions
Operational Research
Discrete Optimization
Annuals of Operations Research
European Journal of Operational Research
Journal of Combinatorial Optimization
Computers and Operations Research
Soft Computing
Journal of Heuristics
Journal of Simulation
Advances in Mechanical Engineering
Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability
Computational and Applied Mathematics
IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering
IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration
University Service
UTSI Faculty Search Committee
Master Thesis/Capstone Committee
PhD Comprehensive Exam Committee
PhD Dissertation Committee