Siqian Shen

Professor Department of Industrial & Operations Engineering University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Address: 2793 IOE, 1205 Beal Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2011 Email: siqian [at] umich [dot] edu Curriculum Vitae (pdf) Google Scholar

Bio:

Education

• Ph.D., 2011, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida

• B.S., 2007, Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, China

Employment

• Professor of IOE and CEE (courtesy appointment), University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2023-present

• Program Director, National Science Foundation, ENG/CMMI, 2023-2025

• Associate Professor of IOE, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2017-2023

• Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE; courtesy appointment), University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2018-2023

• Assistant Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE), University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2011-2017

Research Interests

• Theory: Stochastic programming, robust optimization, integer programming, network optimization.

• Application: transportation, energy, healthcare

Editorial Board

• Operations Research

• Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

• IISE Transactions

Past:

• European Journal of Operational Research

• Transportation Science

• Networks

• Service Science

• INFORMS Journal on Computing

Honors and Awards

• 2024 US National Science Foundation Director’s Award for Superior Accomplishment (Group)

• 2021-2024 IOE Richard Wilson Faculty Scholar

• 2023 Best Conference Paper Award Finalist in the IEEE 19th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2023)

• 2022 Best Conference and Application Paper Award Finalist in the IEEE 18th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE 2022)

• 2022 Best Track Modeling & Simulation Paper in the 2022 IISE Annual Conference & Expo

• 2021 IOE Department Faculty Award, University of Michigan

• Honorable Mention, Best Paper in the 2020 IISE Transactions Focus Issue on Operations Engineering and Analytics.

• 2017 Department of Energy (DoE) Early Career Award

• 2016 INFORMS Undergraduate Operations Research Award, 1st Place (faculty advisor)

• 2014 Best Paper Award Honorable Mention, INFORMS Section on Public Programs, Services and Needs

• 2013 Best Paper Award Finalist, INFORMS Service Science Section

• 2012 IBM Smarter Planet Innovation Faculty Award

• 2012 IIE Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award, 1st Place

• 2011 Graduate Award for Excellence in Research, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida

• 2010 INFORMS Computing Society Student Paper Award, Runner-Up

Affiliations at University of Michigan

• MICDE (Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering)

• MIDAS (Michigan Institute for Data Science)

• WISE (Women in Science and Engineering)

Selected Service

• Judge Committee Member, Junior Researcher Best Paper Prize in Stochastic Programming, 2025.

• Co-chair, INFORMS George Nicholson Student Paper Competition Award Committee, 2024.

• Board Nominating Committee, INFORMS, 2023-2024.

• Elected member, Board of INFORMS Computing Society, 2021-2023.

• General Associate Chair for 2022 INFORMS Annual Meeting.

• Track Chair (lead), Operations Research track, IISE Annual Conference, 2021.

• Co-Chair, 2019 INFORMS Combined Colloquia: New Faculty Colloquium (NFC), 2019 and 2020.

• Track Chair, 2020 INFORMS Optimization Society Conference, March 2020.

• Optimization Society representative on the INFORMS Subdivisions Council, 2019-2020.

• Associate Director for Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering (MICDE), 2016-present.