Awards, Honors, and Media Coverage
Awards and Honors
Finalist, INFORMS Data Mining Society Best Student Paper Competition, 2024 (student co-author: Dongmin Li)
1st place, INFORMS Service Science Best Cluster Paper Competition, 2023
Winner, Best Problem-Driven Analytical Research Paper Award, Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) Annual Conference, 2021
Finalist, INFORMS Quality, Statistics, and Reliability (QSR) Best Paper Competition, 2021
1st place, Post-Pandemic Supply Chain and Healthcare Management Conference Best Paper Competition, 2021
2nd place, POMS College of Humanitarian Operations & Crisis Management (HOCM) Best Paper Award Competition, 2021
Finalist, POMS College of Healthcare Operations Management (CHOM) Best Paper Award Competition, 2021
POMS Emerging Scholars Meeting, 2021
INFORMS New Faculty Colloquium, Seattle, WA, October 2019
Nominee for Elizabeth V. Stout Dissertation Award, 2017
Departmental nomination for college-wide dissertation award at Lehigh University
Van Hoesen Family Best Publication Award, ISE department, Lehigh University, 2016
Teaching Assistant of the Year, Lehigh University, 2016
University-wide graduate teaching award,
Honorable mention, 2013, 2015
Honorable mention, Graduate Life Leadership Award, Lehigh University, 2016
IIE Doctoral Colloquium, Anaheim, CA, May 2016
INFORMS Doctoral Colloquium, Philadelphia, PA, November 2015
Non-local Student Scholarship, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2007-2011
4-year scholarship with a full coverage of tuition and living allowance.
Dean's honors list of the Faculty of Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2007-2011
Industrial and Systems Engineering Scholarship, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2010
Media Coverage
Research Spotlight: Improving Data Sampling Methods, Warren B. Nelms Institute for the Connected World, March 7, 2022
No panic in pandemic, Fox School of Business, February 8, 2022
Social distancing should stick around, The Hill, June 7, 2021
A New Mathematical Model Streamlines Hospital OR Scheduling, Lehigh Research Review, Vol 3, 2018
A New Mathematical Model Streamlines Hospital OR Scheduling, Lehigh News, Dec. 29, 2017