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

Dr. Shen is currently rotating as a Program Director for the Civil Infrastructure Systems (CIS) program under ENG/CMMI division in the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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

Program Director, National Science Foundation, Division of CMMI, Civil Infrastructure Systems (CIS) Program, 2023-present
Professor of IOE and CEE (courtesy appointment), University of Michigan, 2023-present
Associate Professor of IOE, University of Michigan, 2017-2023
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE; courtesy appointment), University of Michigan, 2018-2023
Assistant Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE), University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 2011-2017

Research Interests

Theory: Stochastic programming, robust optimization, linear/nonlinear integer programming, network optimization.
Application: transportation, energy, healthcare

Editorial Board

Operations Research (2024-present)
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (2021-present)
European Journal of Operational Research (2022-2025)

Past:

Transportation Science (2021-2023)
Networks (2019-2023)
Service Science (2019-2023)
INFORMS Journal on Computing (2019-2023)
IISE Transactions (2018-2023)

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

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.