Honors and Awards

Student Honors and Awards:

1. 2024, Ph.D student (Xinchao Liu), winner of the best student paper competition (Data Analytics and Information Systems), at IISE Conference and Expo, Montreal, May 2024. 

2. 2023, Ph.D student (Guanzhou Wei), finalist of the best paper competition (Data Analytics and Information Systems), at IISE Conference and Expo, New Orleans, May 2023. 

3. 2022, Ph.D student (Xinchao Liu), finalist of the best paper competition (QSR Section) at INFORMS Annual Meeting, October, 2022, Indianapolis, IN.

4. 2021, Ph.D student (Guanzhou Wei), winner of the best paper competition (application track) at INFORMS Workshop on Data Mining & Decision Analytics, October 23, 2021, Anaheim, CA. 

5. 2021, Ph.D student (Xinchao Liu), winner of the best poster competition (QSR Section) at INFORMS Annual Meeting, October, 2021, Anaheim, CA. 

6. 2021, Ph.D student (Guanzhou Wei), honorable mention of the best poster competition (QSR Section) at INFORMS Annual Meeting, October, 2021, Anaheim, CA. 

7. 2020, Ph.D student (Xinchao Liu) received the 2nd prize in the Poster Competition at the 2020 NextGen Data Science Day conference (by the NextGen committee of the New England Statistical Society).

Personal Honors and Awards

8. 2022, NSF CAREER Award

9. 2022, Dean's Awards of Excellence--Rising Star Award, College of Engineering, University of Arkansas.

10. 2021, Outstanding Faculty Member, Arkansas Association of Industrial Engineers.

11. 2021, Chancellor’s Innovation and Collaboration Fund, University of Arkansas

12. 2021, Outstanding Researcher 2020-21, Department of Industrial Engineering

13. 2021, Outstanding Faculty Advisor 2020-21, IE Capstone Experience

14. 2021, Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award, Department of Industrial Engineering

15. 2019-2021 NSF EPSCoR Research Fellow

16. 2018 Statistics in Physical Engineering Sciences (SPES) Award, American Statistical Association (ASA). (http://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/Statistics-in-Physical-Engineering-Sciences-Award.aspx)

17. 2017 Best Paper Award, Prognostics and System Health Management Conference (PHM-Harbin).

18. 2017 IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for health monitoring and prediction for large-scale Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) projects with FLUOR.

19. 2016 INFORMS Quality, Statistics and Reliability Section (QSR) Best Refereed Paper Award

20. 2015 IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for the Predictive Environmental Analytics System (PEAS) with the National Environmental Agency Singapore, 2012-2015.

21. 2015 First Patent Application Invention Achievement Award for: Airborne Particulate Source Detection System.

22. 2015 Global Business Services (GBS) Service Excellence Award (SEA) for the IBM-Micron pilot project.

23. 2014 IBM Manager's Choice Award for the NEA project.

24. 2011 Ralph A. Evans/P.K. McElroy Award for Best Paper (shared with my Ph. d advisor, Dr. Loon-Ching Tang) at the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium 2012, Reno, Nevada, USA. We were the first Asian team honored with this prestigious award in the conference's history.  

25. 2010 National Semiconductor Gold Medal, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, National University of Singapore. The gold medal is awarded to the higher degree graduate in the National University of Singapore who has published the best research paper on an international journal in the area of quality and reliability Engineering. http://www.ise.nus.edu.sg/msc_students/honourroll-year.html

Team Honors and Awards

1. IBM 2016 Accomplishments in Science & Solutions for the "Cognitive Solutions for the Engineering, Procurement, & Construction (EPC) Industries"

2. IBM 2014 I\&S Technical Accomplishments for the project of the National Environmental Agency

3. IBM 2015 Chairman's Environmental Award for the project of the National Environmental Agency