Awards

Winner, Best Paper Award, INFORMS Aviation Applications Section, 2023

Transportation Science Meritorious Service Award, 2023

Finalist, Best Applied Paper, INFORMS Workshop on Data Mining and Decision Analytics, 2023

Management Science Meritorious Service Award, 2022

Transportation Science Meritorious Service Award, 2022

Harold W. Kuhn Award, 2021 (awarded annually to an exceptional paper published in NRL during the previous three years)

Finalist, POMS-JD.com Best Data-Driven Research Paper Competition, 2019

Honorable Mention (Second Place), Best Dissertation Award, Transportation Science and Logistics Society, INFORMS, 2018

First Place, Best Dissertation Award, Aviation Applications Section, INFORMS, 2018

Outstanding Paper in Air Transportation, Transportation Science and Logistics Society, INFORMS, 2017

Best Data Exploration Award, Hubway Data Challenge, 2017

UPS Doctoral Fellowship, Center of Transportation and Logistics, MIT, 2016

Best Presentation Award, Aviation Applications Section, INFORMS, 2015

First Place, Anna Valicek Award, AGIFORS, 2015

First Place, Railway Application Section Problem Solving Competition, INFORMS, 2012

Robert E. Thurber Fellowship, MIT, 2012

Outstanding Graduate Award, Tsinghua University, 2012

Outstanding Undergraduate Student in Beijing, 2012

Best Bachelor Thesis Award, Tsinghua University, 2012

Honorable Mention, US Mathematical Contest in Modeling (MCM) by COMAP, 2011

National Scholarship of China, Tsinghua University, 2010 & 2011 (top 1%)

Tang OOCL Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2009 (top 3%)