Outstanding Material Handling & Logistics Research Paper Award, College Industry Council on Material Handling Education, Material Handling Institute, 2006
Keynote Speaker, Complex Systems Design & Management Conference, Singapore, December 11-13, 2014
Plenary Speaker, CORS Annual Conference, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, June 11-June 13, 2012
Keynote Speaker, Workshop on Green Supply Chains, World Bank, Washington DC, December 13, 2010
Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Modeling and Simulation (MOSIM), Hammamet, Tunisia, May 10-12, 2010
Featured Speaker, INFORMS Practice Conference, Orlando, Florida. 2010
Thought Leadership Panelist, NorthStar Initiative for Sustainable Enterprise, The Johnson Foundation at Wingspread, 2010
Keynote Speaker, Frontiers of Supply Chain Research Conference, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2007
General Chair, INFORMS International Meeting, Hawaii, 2016
Chair (elected), MSOM Sustainable Operations Special Interest Group, 2011
IIE Pritsker Best Doctoral Dissertation Award, dissertation of Ph.D student Rowan Wang, 2015
INFORMS Section on Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment Best Student Paper Award, 2013, paper co-authored with Ph.D. students David Chen and Rowan Wang, 2013
Finalist, INFORMS Interactive Best Poster Presentation, paper co-authored with Ph.D. students David Chen and Rowan Wang, 2013
Finalist, POMS-HK Best Student Paper Award, paper co-authored with Ph.D. students David Chen and Rowan Wang, 2013
IIE Pritsker Best Doctoral Dissertation Award, dissertation of Ph.D student Yimin Yu, 2010
Finalist, ILS El-Maghraby Best Student Paper Award, paper co-authored with Ph.D. student Soumaya Ben-Aicha, 2010
Semi-Finalist, INFORMS Edelman Award, Optimizing Inventory Control at 3M, 2003
Finalist, MSOM Best Student Paper Award, paper co-authored with Ph.D. student Joon-Seok Kim, 2001
Finalist, MSOM Best Student Paper Award, paper co-authored with Ph.D. student Maher Lahmar, 2000
IIE Transactions Best Paper Award, Institute of Industrial Engineers, 2000
IIE Transactions Best Paper Award, Institute of Industrial Engineers, 1999
Service Achievement Award, American Production and Inventory Control Society, 1999
The National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award, 1993
David Ross Research Fellowship, Purdue University Research Foundation, 1990-1992