Service & OutreacH

Outreach

• Research faculty lead and champion for undergraduate research projects in Lehigh's ISE Outreach Program (2021-present)

• Outreach faculty lead for Lehigh’s Foundations and Applications of Mathematical Optimization and Data Science program (2021-present)

• Faculty Mentor, Charting Horizons and Opportunities in Careers in Engineering and Science

External Service to Professional Society 

• • Associate Editor, INFORMS Journal on Computing in the area of Computational Modeling: Methods & Analysis (2024-present)

  • Associate Editor, Transportation Science, Logistics and Routing (2024-present)

  • Associate Editor, Healthcare Management Science (2025-present)

  • Executive Vice President/President-elect, INFORMS Section on Location Analysis (2024-2026)

  • Vice-President/President-elect, Junior Faculty Interest Group (2023-2025)

  • Director of IISE Operations Research Division (2021-2023) 

  • Panelist, Academic Job Search Panel, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, October 2019   

  • Judge Committee Member, 2023–2024 Minority Issues Forum Paper Competitions.

  • Judge Committee Member, 2024 INFORMS Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee (DEIC) Paper Competition.

  • Editorial Service (reviewer):  Service Science, Management Science, Transportation Science, Annals of Operations Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Healthcare Management Science, Computers & Operations Research, Operations Research For Health Care, European Journal of Operational Research, Information Technology and Management, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Transportation Research Part C, and others 

University Service (University of Southern California)

• PhD committee, Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2025-present.

University Service (Lehigh University)

• • Leadership Council, Institute for Cyber Physical Infrastructure & Energy (I-CPIE), 2023–present.

  • Faculty mentor, CHOICES (Charting Horizons and Opportunities in Careers in Engineering and Science) Spring and Summer Camps, 2020–present.

  • Panelists, Lehigh Women Engineering PreLUsion program, 2021, 2022. 2023.

  • Lehigh Women Engineers “Ask Me Anything” Faculty Session, 2021, 2022.

Department Service (Industrial and Systems Engineering, Lehigh University)

• • Organizer of the ISE department seminars, 2024–present.

  • Research faculty lead and champion for undergraduate research projects, Lehigh’s ISE Outreach Program, 2021–present.

  • Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, 2023–present.

  • PhD selection committee, 2020–2023.

  • Van Hoesen Family Best Paper Award Committee (Chair), 2023.

  • ISE holiday party organizing committee, 2020.

Students and Committee

• • ISE Ph.D. Students, Lehigh University 

    • • PhD advisor: Man Yiu Tsang (2020-present)

      • PhD advisor: Shutian Li (2021-present)

      • PhD advisor: Yuyang Ma (2023-present)

  • PhD Students at other Universities

    • • Co-advisor: Xinyu Yiu, Heinz/CMU (2019-present)

      • Exchange student: Ridong Wang, IE/Tsinghua, (2021-2022)

  • IOE Ph.D. Students, University of Michigan (UofM)

    • • Junhong Guo (2017-2019)

      • Mathew Aguirre(2016-2017) 

  • IOE and CHEPS Master and Undergraduate Students, University of Michigan 

    • • William Yang (2015–2019) 

      • Trevor Hoffman (2016–2019) 

      • Meng Sang (2016–2018)

      • Pranjal Singh (2016–2018)  

      • Abhilash Raa (2016–2017)

      • Ajaay Chandrasekaran (2016–2017)  

      • Chhavi Chaudhry (2015–2016) 

• Graduate Student Coordinator (students leader), Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) at UofM (2017–2019). 

  • IOE diversity speaker initiative

  • Graduate student mentoring program 

  • IOE faculty and graduate students picnic

  • Organizing the annual IOE diversity dinner

  • IOE graduate students recruiting weekends

•  Member of The University of Michigan Gastroenterology Learning Community (2016-2019)

• Girls in Science Camp, University of Michigan (summers of 2015, 2016, and 2017)

  • Introduced 5th-8th girls to industrial engineering and operations research in a fun outreach activity by having the girls simulate patient flow through a hospital and make changes to improve the system.

• Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) Advisory Board Meeting (2017)

  • Represented the Ph.D. student bodies in IOE

• I held the following free Tutorial for both undergraduate and graduate students at UofM

  • Introduction to LaTeX typesetting (2015, 2016, and 2017)

  • Introduction to Optimization Methods (2017)