Professional Activities

Recent Journal Editorial Activities

  • Editor-in-Chief, Service Science, 2019-2024
  • Editor, Joint Special Issue of Stochastic Systems and Service Science, 2023-2025
  • Editor, Special Issue on “Sharing Economy and Innovative Marketplaces,” Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 2017-2020
  • Editor, Special Issue on “Urban Computing and Smart Cities,” ACM Transactions on Data Science. 2019-2021
  • Associate Editor, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 2004-2006 and 2009-2020
  • Senior Editor, Production and Operations Management, 2006-2015
  • Associate Editor, Naval Research Logistics, 2007-present
  • Department Editor, IIE Transactions, 2004-2015
  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2003-2007

Recent Conference Organization

  • Co-Chair, Tauber Institute Symposium on Frontiers in Operations, Ann Arbor, May 15, 2025
  • General Chair, MSOM Annual Conference, Minneapolis, June 30-July 2, 2024
  • Co-Chair, SF-IMA Industrial Mathematics Clinic: Tackling Collaboratively Emerging Problems in Industry  Minneapolis, July 24-August 11, 2017
  • General Chair, INFORMS International Conference, Hawaii, June 2016
  • Chair, Symposium on the Sharing Economy, University of Minnesota, May 2016
  • Chair, Annual Conference of the MSOM Sustainable Operations Special Interest Group, Columbia University, New York, June 2012
  • Chair, NSF Symposium on the Low Carbon Footprint Supply Chain, Washington DC, October 2010

Recent Industry Collaboration and Consulting

Gopuff, Hitch Health, CH Robinson, Hourcar, Stratasys, Boston Scientific, Accenture, World Bank, Mayo Clinic, Car2Go, Target, Keppel Corporation, Walmart, World Bank, Mayo Clinic, OCBC, iCars, AirBnB, Singapore CGH Hospital, Fairview Hospitals, Adventium, General Mills, 3M, Ford, GE, Honeywell, Intel, Infineon, Port of Singapore Authority, and DHL

Recent Invited Talks at Universities

UC Berkeley, CMU, Boston College, Northeastern University, HKUST, USC, University of Michigan, University of Toronto, McGill University, Rice University, Rutgers University, Arizona State University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, SMU, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio State University, Johns Hopkins University, University College London, London, University of Texas at Austin, Ivey Business School, Georgetown University, University of California at Irvine, Purdue University, Columbia University, NYU, Clemson University, University of Iowa, Bilkent University, University Colorado Boulder, Cambridge University, London Business School, Oxford University, NUS, LUISS, Northeastern University, Temple University, CUHK-Shenzhen

Recent Service to Professional Societies

  • Chair, Association of Chairs of Operations Research Departments (ACORD)
  • Member, Board of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS)
  • Vice President, POMS College of Sustainable Operations
  • Chair, MSOM Special Interest Group on Sustainable Operations
  • Member of various committees (including prize selection committees) for POMS, INFORMS, and MSOM
  • Proposal reviewer and panelist for NSF
  • Member of external review committees for various universities

Recent University Service (at the University of Minnesota unless specified otherwise)

  • Member, University of Michigan College of Engineering Committee on Honors and Awards
  • Chair, College of Science and Engineering, Tenure and Promotion Committee
  • Member, College of Science and Engineering, Tenure and Promotion Committee
  • Chair, College of Science and Engineering, Taskforce on Future Growth
  • Chair, Search Committee for the Director of the Technological Leadership Institute
  • Member, Executive Committee, Decision Science Initiative
  • Member, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (IMA), Committee on the Future of the IMA
  • Member, Working Group on Grand Challenges (Enhancing Individual and Community Capacity for a Changing World), Office of the Provost
  • Faculty Mentor, President’s Distinguished Faculty Mentor Program
  • Member, Faculty Scholars Program Evaluation Committee, Center for Transportation Studies
  • Member, University McKnight Professorship Award Committee