Honors
Winner, MSOM iFORM SIG Best Paper Award, 2023
Finalist, Best IS paper in Management Science Award, 2023
Finalist, Service Science Best Cluster Paper Competition, INFORMS, 2023
Meritorious Service Award (reviewer), M&SOM, 2021, 2022
Second Place, Best Student Paper Competition, 2022 POMS-HK International Conference (Ph.D. student: Shuai Hao), 2022
Distinguished Service Award (reviewer), Management Science 2020, 2021
Winner, INFORMS Conference on Service Science Best Student Conference Paper Award (Ph.D. student: Shuai Hao), 2020
Finalist, INFORMS Conference on Service Science Best Conference Paper Award 2020
C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute Grant ($100,000), CO-PI 2020
Finalist, INFORMS IBM Service Science Best Student Paper Award, (Ph.D. student: Baile Lu), 2019
Winner, INFORMS Conference on Service Science Best Conference Paper Award, 2019
Winner, CSAMSE Best Paper Award, 2019
List of "Teachers Ranked as Excellent", UIUC, 2018, 2019
IIP International Conference Travel Grant, UIUC, 2019
Research Grant, Center for Professional Responsibility in Business and Society, UIUC, 2019-now
R.C. Evans Data Analytics Fellow, UIUC, 2018-now
Finalist, POMS College of Behavior in Operations Management Junior Scholar Paper Competition, 2018
Finalist, POMS Healthcare Best Paper Award, 2017
Winner, CSAMSE Practice Award, 2017
Third Prize, Best Student Paper Award of INFORMS Healthcare, 2017
Herman E. Krooss Dissertation Award, NYU Stern School of Business, 2017
Winner, Best Student Paper Award, Workshop on Health IT and Economics (WHITE), 2016
Research Grant for PhD Student, NYU Center for Global Economy and Business, 2013-2017
W. Edward Deming Fellowship, NYU Stern School of Business, 2015-2016
Doctoral Fellowship, NYU Stern School of Business, 2011-2015
Second Prize, International Mathematical Contest in Modeling, U.S 2010