Yun Hui Lin

• Senior Scientist, IHPC A*STAR, 07.2023 - Present

• Scientist, IHPC A*STAR, 10.2022 - 06.2023

• Assistant Professor,  Management Information Systems/Business Analytics, Univerisity College Dublin,  01.2022 - 10.2022

• Research Fellow, Department of ISEM, National University of Singapore,  04.2021 - 01.2022

• Ph.D., Department of ISEM, National University of Singapore, 01.2017 - 06.2021  (Supervisors: Professor Loo Hay Lee and Professor Ek Peng Chew)

• B.Eng., School of Transportation, Southeast University, China, 08.2012 - 06.2016

I am interested in Choice-based Operations Management, Location Analysis, Transportation & Logistics, and AI-assisted Operations Research.

My papers have appeared in refereed journals such as Production and Operations Management, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, European Journal of Operational Research, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, etc.

* denotes Corresponding Author

1. Lin, Y. H., Tian, Q., and Zhao, Y. (2024). Unified framework for choice-based facility location problem. INFORMS Journal on Computing.

2.  Chu, X., Wang, Y., Lin, Y. H., and Chew, E. P.  (2024). Offshore consolidation centre for air cargo operations: Model and solution methods. OR Spectrum.

3. Liu, S., Tian, Q., Wang, D. Z. W., and Lin, Y. H. (2024). Optimal configuration of dynamic wireless charging facilities considering electric vehicle battery capacity. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review.

4. Lin, Y. H., Tian, Q., He, D., and Wang, Y. (2024). Revisiting Stackelberg P-median problem with user preferences. Computers and Operations Research.

5. Lin, Y. H., and Tian, Q. (2023). Facility location and pricing problem: discretized mill price and exact algorithms. European Journal of Operational Research.

6. Lin, Y. H., Tian, Q., and Liu, S. (2023). Service expansion for chained business facilities under congestion and market competition. Computers & Operations Research.

7. Tian, Q., Lin, Y. H., and Wang., D. Z. W.  (2023). Joint scheduling and formation design for modular-vehicle transit service with time-dependent demand.  Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies.

8. Lin, Y. H., Tian, Q., and Zhao, Y. (2022). Locating facilities under competition and market expansion: formulation, optimization, and implications. Production and Operations Management.

9. Lin, Y. H., Wang, Y., Lee, L. H., and Chew, E. P. (2022). Omnichannel facility location and fulfillment optimization. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological.

10. Tian, Q., Wang., D. Z. W., and Lin, Y. H. (2022). Optimal deployment of autonomous buses into a transit service network. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review.

11. Tian, Q., Lin., Y. H., Wang., D. Z. W., and Liu, Y. (2022). Planning for modular-vehicle transit service system: model formulation and solution methods. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies.

12. Lin, Y. H., Wang, Y., Lee, L. H., and Chew, E. P. (2022). Profit-maximizing parcel locker location problem under threshold Luce model.  Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review.

13. Lin, Y. H. and Tian, Q. (2021). Generalized benders decomposition for competitive facility location with concave demand and zone-specialized variable attractiveness. Computers & Operations Research. 

14. Lin, Y. H.* and Tian, Q. (2021). Branch-and-cut approach based on generalized Benders decomposition for facility location with limited choice rule. European Journal of Operational Research.

15. Tian, Q., Wang, D. Z. W., and Lin, Y. H. (2021). Service operation design in a transit network with congested common lines. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological.

16. Lin, Y. H.* and Tian, Q. (2021). Exact approaches for competitive facility location with discrete attractiveness. Optimization Letters.

17. Lin, Y. H., Wang, Y., Lee, L. H., and Chew, E. P. (2021). Robust facility location with structural complexity and demand uncertainty. Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal.

18. Tian, Q., Lin., Y. H., and Wang., D. Z. W. (2021). Autonomous and conventional bus fleet optimization for fixed-route operations considering demand uncertainty. Transportation.

19. Lin, Y. H., Wang, Y., Lee, L. H., and Chew, E. P. (2021). Consistency matters: revisiting the structural complexity for supply chain networks. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications. 

20. Lin, Y. H., Wang, Y., He, D., and Lee, L. H. (2020). Last-mile delivery: optimal locker location under multinomial logit choice model. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review.

1. Lin, Y. H., Chua, P. C., Yin, X. F., Wang, Z., Li, N., Xiao, Z., Fu, X., and Qin, Z. (Accepted). Big data-driven booking consolidation and scheduling of launching services in Singapore Port. The 2024 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence. (AI + Optimization).

2. Wang, Z., Yin, X. F., Lin, Y. H., Chua, P. C., Li, N., and Fu, X. (Accepted). Optimizing Demand Forecasting: A Framework With Bayesian Optimization Embedded Reinforcement Learning for Combined Algorithm Selection and Hyperparameter Optimization. The 2024 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence. (AI + Optimization).

3. Li, D., Liu, H., Jin, X., Li, H., Chew, E. P., Tan, C. T., and Lin, Y. H. (2022). Multi-fidelity discrete optimization via simulation. 2022 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC).

4. Lin, Y. H. and Wang, Y. Robustness and Network Complexity: Are They Contradictory in Logistics Network Design. (https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.34025.51042).

• Zhang, J., Lin, Y. H.*, Chew, E. P., and Tan, K. C. "Intermodal container terminal location and capacity design with decentralized flow estimation". Under 2nd-round review in Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. (Preprint available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=4501459).

• Zhang, J., Lin, Y. H.*, and Berbeglia, G. "Approximate Resolution of stochastic choice-based discrete planning". (A general model and sampling-based framework with featured applications in constrained assortment optimization, choice-based facility location, and deterministic discrete pricing).

• "Toward real-time operations of modular-vehicle transit services: From rolling horizon control to learning-based approach". (AI + Optimization).

• "Bilevel competitive facility location and design under a nested logit model".

• "Service network design in a modular-vehicle transit system: joint optimization of service frequency and vehicle capacity considering stochastic demand."

Lin, Y. H., Yin, X. F., and Tian, Q. "Unlock efficiency: End-to-end optimization learning for recurrent facility operational planning". Under Revision. (AI + Optimization).

• Laureate to the ESI Location Science 2022, 2022

• Best Student Paper, The 3rd International Symposium on Multimodal Transportation, 2019

• NUS Research Scholarship, 2017-2021

• Technical Committee Member, Comprehensive Transportation Planning of Transportation Planning Division, The 3rd World Transport Convention (Appointment from December 2023 to October 2026)

• Area Chair (Meta-Reviewer) of Industrial AI, 2024 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence

• Journal Reviewer for Transportation Science; European Journal of Operational Research; Transportation Research Part B: Methodological;  Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review; Computers and Operations Research; Networks; Transportmetrica A: Transport Science; Transportation Letters; Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research; Journal of Simulation; Optimization Letters, etc.

• Conference Reviewer for 2024 World Transport Convention; 2024 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence; 2022 Winter Simulation Conference