Honors and Awards
Second Prize, The 10th Guangdong Provincial Philosophy and Social Science Outstanding Achievement Award , organized by the People’s Government of Guangdong Province(第十届广东省哲学社会科学优秀成果奖二等奖), 2024, for the paper “Financing an Agricultural Supply Chain with Capital-Constrained Smallholder Farmer in Developing Economies published on Production and Operations Management, 30(7), 2102-2121, 2021”
Third Prize, 2023 Institute of Supply Chain and Operations Management Annual Meeting (ISCOM 2023) Best Paper Competition. Paper Title: Competition between Service Platforms: Myopic vs. Farsighted Stability
Faculty Awards 2023 Outstanding Researcher (Research and Scholarly Activities), Faculty of Business, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Faculty Awards 2023 (Services), Faculty of Business, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Finalist, the IFORS Prize for OR in Development 2023, The 23rd Triennial Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS 2023), Santiago, Chile, July 2023. Paper Title: Improving Health Outcomes with Less Cost? The Provision of Mobile Clinic Service in Developing Economies.
Recognition for Outstanding Service as Organizing Committee Chair in the 13th POMS-HK International Conference, Presented by Production & Operations Management Society at Orlando, Florida, USA, 2023.
Vice President’s Recognition for Excellence in Research Grant Application, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2022
Best Paper Award (Merit), 2022 Institute of Supply Chain and Operations Management Annual Meeting (ISCOM 2022) Best Paper Competition. Paper Title: Improving Health Outcomes with Less Cost? The Provision of Mobile Clinic Service in Developing Economies.
PBS Fellow Award 2020/21, Faculty of Business, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2020/2021
2020 China Information Economics Outstanding Achievement Award, administered by China Information Economics Society, (中国信息经济学2020优秀成果奖(信息管理组),中国信息经济学会 ), 2020, for the paper “Direct Sourcing or Agent Sourcing? Contract Negotiation in Procurement Outsourcing published on Manufacturing & Service Operations Management”
Second Prize, the 8th Outstanding Scientific Research Achievement Award (Humanities and Social Sciences) of Higher Education Institutions, organized by the Ministry of Education of China (中国教育部第八届高等学校科学研究优秀成果奖(人文社会科学)著作论文奖二等奖 ), 2020, for the paper “The comparison of two vertical outsourcing structures under push and pull contract published on Production and Operations Management, 23, 4, 610–625, 2014
Vice President’s Recognition for Excellence in Research Grant Application, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2020
First Prize, The 11th POMS International Conference (2020) Best Student Paper Competition. Paper Title: Gender-Based Operational Issues Arising from On-Demand Ride-Hailing Platforms: Safety Concerns and System Configuration. Supervised Student: Yanli Tang
PBS Fellow Award, Faculty of Business, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2018/2019
Third Prize, 2019 POMS International Conference in China Best Student Paper Competition. Paper Title: Gender-Based Operational Issues Arising from On-Demand Ride-Hailing Platforms: Safety Concerns, Service Systems, and Pricing and Wage Policy. Supervised Student: Yanli Tang
Faculty Prize (Research and Scholarly Activities), Faculty of Business, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2017/2018
Reward for Excellence, 2018 Supply Chain and Internet Finance Annual Forum, Dalian, China
Honorable Mention, 2018 CSAMSE/Columbia China Business Initiative Best Paper Award. Paper Title: “The Impact of Input-vs. Output-based Farm Subsidies on Farmer Welfare and Income Inequality in Developing Economies”
Second Prize, the 2017 16th China Society of Logistics Annual Meeting Best Paper Award. Paper Title: “The Impact of Consumer Fairness Seeking on Distribution Channel Selection: Direct Selling vs. Agent Selling”
FB Fellow Award, Faculty of Business, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2015/2016
Honorable Mention, 2016 CSAMSE/Columbia China Business Initiative Best Paper Award. Paper Title: “Fee-For-Service vs Bundled Payment: A Comparison from Aspects of Congestion and Service Quality”
Best Paper Award, the 12th International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management (ICSSSM 2015). Paper Title: “Service and Price Competition in a Variety Seeking Market”
Outstanding Paper Award, the 3rd IEEE (Hong Kong) Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Postgraduate Paper Competition (2011). Paper Title: Coordinating a Two-Stage Fashion Supply Chain with Risk Averse Supplier by Markdown Money Policy. Supervised Student: Bin Shen
Second Prize, 2011 Second POMS-HK International Conference Best Student Paper Competition. Paper Title: “Comparison of Two Vertical Outsourcing Structures under Push, Pull and Two-wholesale-Price Contracts”. Supervised Student: Baozhuang Niu
Second Prize, 2011 Second POMS-HK International Conference Best Student Paper Competition. Paper Title: “Interchange Fee Rate, Merchant Discount Rate and Retail Prices in a Credit Card Network: A Game-Theoretic Analysis”. Supervised Student: Hangfei Guo
Honorable Mention, 2009 CSAMSE/Columbia China Business Initiative Best Paper Award. Paper Title: “Two-Wholesale-Price Contracts in a Three-Tier Supply Chain”
Grant Recipient, CIBER Doctoral Consortium on International Operations Management, Purdue University, 2002