Services and Honors

Major Services

• • Chair, Quality, Statistics and Reliability Subdivision, INFORMS, 2018-present

  • Vice President, Engineering Faculty Organization Executive Committee, College of Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2017-present (Elected)

  • Chair-Elect, Quality, Statistics and Reliability Subdivision, INFORMS, 2017-2018

  • Associate Editor, IISE Transactions, Focus Issue on Design and Manufacturing, 2017-present 

  • Secretary and Treasurer, Quality, Statistics and Reliability Subdivision, INFORMS, 2015-present  

  • Secretary, Board Member, Process Industries Division, IISE, 2013-2014

  • Referee for NSF Panels (2 times), 15 journals, 3 conferences, 5 best paper awards

  • Hearing Panel Member, Undergraduate Honor System of Virginia Tech, 2015-present 

  • Secretary, ISE Alternate for Engineering Faculty Organization Executive Committee of College of Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2015-present (Elected) 

  • Member, ISE Graduate Admission Committee (2011-2014, 2016-present)

  • Conference Organization (16 times of session chair, 3 times of track chair, 1 time of symposium organizer)

  • Details in my CV (link)

Professional Membership

• • Member of The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2006-present

  • Member of The Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), 2008-present

  • Member of The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2010-present

  • Member of The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS), 2016-present

  • Member of Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME), 2017-present

  • Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017-present

Awards and Honors of My Research Group

• 1. ICTAS Junior Faculty Awards at Virginia Tech, 2017, 2018 (together with Dr. Dongyoon Lee from Computer Science on “Fog Computing based Smart Additive Manufacturing”; among 10 awards at Virginia Tech), April 2017 and April 2018

  2. Scholar of the Week at Virginia Tech, 2017

  3. Best Poster Award, Center for Excellence in Logistics and Distribution, 2017

  4. Best Student Paper Award Finalist (by Hongyue Sun), Quality Control and Reliability Engineering Track, Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference, 2017

  5. Hongyue Sun, PhD Student of the Year, Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2017

  6. Best Student Paper Award Finalist (by Hongyue Sun), Data Mining Subdivision, INFORMS Conference, 2016

  7. Best Student Paper Award Finalist (by Hongyue Sun), Process Industries Track, Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference, 2015

  8. The Outstanding Faculty Award, Alpha Pi Mu, Virginia Tech Chapter of the Grado Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2014-2015

  9. Best Student Paper Award Finalist (by Wenmeng Tian), Process Industries Track, Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference, 2014

  10. Best Student Paper Award Finalist (by Hongyue Sun), Quality Control and Reliability Engineering Track, Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Conference, 2014

  11. IIE Transactions Feature Paper, 2012

  12. Best Applied Paper Award in IIE Transactions Quality and Reliability Engineering, 2012

  13. Alumni Spotlight, ISyE, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2011

  14. QSR Best Student Paper Award Finalist, INFORMS, 2010

  15. Runner-up of Best Posters in the Graduate Symposium, College of Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2008

  16. Forging Industry Educational & Research Foundation Scholarship, 2007

  17. IOE Ph.D. Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2005