Service and Awards

Institute for Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE)

• Director, Logistics and Supply Chain Division, 2023 – 2025

• Track Chair, IISE Annual Conference, 2024, 2025, 2026

• Session Chair, IISE Annual Conference, 2016, 2023, 2024

• Paper Reviewer, IISE Annual Conference, 2016 – 2017, 2022 – 2026

Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS)

• Session Chair, INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2017, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

• ENRE Best Paper Committee Member, INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2025 2026                                                                                                                                    

• Vice President, INFORMS Student Chapter, Mississippi State University, 2015 – 2018

Proposal Reviewer

• Panelist, Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) Division, National Science Foundation, 2024, 2025

• Panelist, Computer and Network Systems (CISE/CNS) Division, National Science Foundation, 2026

Journal Editorial Services

• Associate Editor, Cyber-Physical Energy Systems, Elsevier, 2024 – Present

• Special Issue Lead Guest Editor, Mathematics journal, 2025

• Peer Reviewer

              Review manuscripts for the following journals: 

o   European Journal of Operational Research

o   INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics

o   Computers & Operations Research

o   Omega: The International Journal of Management Science

o   International Journal of Production Research

o   Journal of Manufacturing Systems

o   Journal of Manufacturing Processes

o   Applied Energy

o   Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

o   Naval Research Logistics

o   Journal of Process Control

o   Computers & Industrial Engineering

o   Optimization Letters

o   Energy Systems

o   Expert Systems with Applications

International Conference Organizing Committee

• International Conference on Bilevel Optimization, Pittsburgh, PA, August 2026

• International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks, November 2023, Almaty, Kazakhstan

The University of Texas at San Antonio

• Chair, MAIE Department seminar organizing committee, 2025 – 2026

• Committee member, MAIE Department PhD qualifying exam committee, 2024 – Present

• Committee member, MAIE Department seminar organizing committee, 2023 – Present    

Consultancy service

•  Worked as a team member in the fire and electrical safety assessment of RMG factory buildings in Bangladesh for the International Labor Organization (ILO)

• Most Prolific Researcher of the Year 2024, MAIE Department, The University of Texas at San Antonio

• NSF CMMI Game Changer Academics Panel Fellow, 2023

• Faculty Travel Award, The University of Texas at San Antonio, 2023, 2025

• Best Student Paper Award (2nd Place), Energy Systems Division, IISE Annual Conference and Expo, 2024. (*Directly supervised PhD student award)

• First Place Winner, Solving OR/Analytics consulting engagement problem, INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2019

• Travel Award for presenting research papers in conference, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Fall 2019)

• Travel Award for presenting research papers in conference, Mississippi State University (Fall 2017)