移动零售 3:路径规划(Time-Sensitive TSP):
Retail on Autonomous Wheels: A Time-Sensitive Traveling Salesman Problem.
Zhuolun Dong, Junyu Cao and Wei Qi.
Management Science, accepted.
Finalist, 2023 INFORMS Undergraduate Operations Research Prize.
Finalist, POMS College of Supply Chain Management Best Student Paper Competition, 2025.
能源全渠道共享(Energy Omni-Sharing):
Crowdsourcing Electric Mobility for Omni-Sharing Distributed Energy Resources.
Wenqing Ai, Tianhu Deng, Wei Qi and Wei Gu.
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, accepted.
Honorable Mention, 2022 Student Paper Competition of College of Sustainable Operations of POMS.
Best Student Paper Award Finalist, 2021 INFORMS Conference on Service Science.
Third Place, Best Paper Award Competition, 2022 Digital Supply Chain and Supplier Diversity Conference.
移动零售 2:在线设施选址(Online Facility Location):
Online Facility Location: Running Stores on Wheels with Spatial Demand Learning.
Junyu Cao, Wei Qi and Yan Zhang.
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 28.3(2026): 935-955.
以人为本的仓储拣货(Human-Centric Warehousing):
Human-Centric Order Picking: Performance Prediction and Robot Assignment at a Robotic Fulfillment Center..
Zhiqiao Wu, Jian Luo, Zhaowei Hao and Wei Qi.
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 28.4(2026): 1192-1208.
公交化同城物流(Public Transit for Deliveries):
Scaling Urban On-Demand Delivery: A Dabbawala-Inspired System for Handling Massive Demands via Public Transit.
Yundong Feng, Yiqi Sun, Wei Qi and Zuo-Jun Max Shen.
Production and Operations Management,35.5(2026): 1923–1944.
滨海城市地下水管理(Droughts & Seawater Intrusion):
Coastal Groundwater Management: Seawater Intrusion Prevention, Artificial Recharge, and Climate Adaptation.
Chengfan Hou, Lu Wang, Tianhu Deng and Wei Qi.
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management,27.5(2025): 1625-1644.
街边停车(Street Parking):
Coins, Cards, or Apps: Impact of Payment Methods on Street Parking Occupancy and Wait Times.
Sena Onen Oz, Mehmet Gumus and Wei Qi.
Production and Operations Management, 34.11 (2025): 3647-3666.
氢能基础设施规划(Hydrogen Infrastructure):
From Curtailed Renewable Energy to Green Hydrogen: Infrastructure Planning for Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Vehicles.
Long He, Ruijiu Mao, Nan Ke, Wei Qi and Hongcai Zhang.
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 26.5 (2024): 1750-1767.
MSOM SIG Presentation 2023.
换电电动汽车(Battery Swapping):
Scaling Up Electric-Vehicle Battery Swapping Services in Cities: A Joint Location and Repairable-Inventory Model.
Wei Qi, Yuli Zhang and Ningwei Zhang.
Management Science. 2023.
移动零售 1:“地摊经济” (Retail on Wheels):
Stall Economy: The Value of Mobility in Retail on Wheels.
Junyu Cao and Wei Qi.
Operations Research, 71.2 (2023): 708-726.
微电网与自动驾驶(Microgrids & Self-Driving):
When Shared Autonomous Electric Vehicles Meet Microgrids: Citywide Energy-Mobility Orchestration.
Wei Qi, Mengyi Sha and Shanling Li.
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 24.5 (2022): 2389-2406.
共享电动汽车(EV Sharing):
Charging an Electric Vehicle Sharing Fleet.
Long He, Guangrui Ma, Wei Qi and Xin Wang.
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 23.2 (2021): 471-487.
何为智慧城市运筹?(A Vision):
A Smart-City Scope of Operations Management.
Wei Qi and Zuo-Jun Max Shen.
Production and Operations Management, 28.2 (2019): 393-406.
众包配送(Last-Mile Crowdshipping):
Shared Mobility for Last-Mile Delivery: Design, Operational Prescriptions and Environmental Impact.
Wei Qi, Lefei Li, Sheng Liu and Zuo-Jun Max Shen.
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 20.4 (2018): 737-751.
风储规划(Storing the Wind):
Joint Planning of Energy Storage and Transmission for Wind Energy Generation.
Wei Qi, Yong Liang and Zuo-Jun Max Shen.
Operations Research, 63.6 (2015): 1280-1293.
Working Papers:
暴雨韧性城市 Stormwater-Resilient Cities:
Toward Stormwater-Resilient Cities: Robust Planning Against Extreme Rainfalls.
With Sheng Liu and Aiqi Zhang.
Minor revision at Operations Research.
* MSOM SIG Presentation 2024.
大模型赋能精益制造 AI/OR for Precision Manufacturing:
Generating Standard Operating Procedures Toward Precision Manufacturing: An Optimization-Augmented Large Vision-Language Model.
With Yifan Li, Hui Chen, Xiaowei Yue and Li Zheng.
Minor revision at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.
供应链网络履约 Multilocation Newsvendor:
Distributionally Robust Multilocation Newsvendor at Scale: A Scenario-Based Linear Programming Approach.
With Chenxi Li, Sheng Liu, Lun Ran and Aiqi Zhang.
Minor revision at Production and Operations Management.
* Winner of the 2021 MSOM Data Driven Research Challenge.
以人为本的路径规划 Human-Centric Routing:
Balancing Algorithmic Clairvoyance with Human Preferences: An Inverse Reinforcement Learning Approach for Last-Mile Deliveries.
With Genshen Fu, Pujun Zhang, Dazhou Lei and Zuo-Jun Max Shen.
* Finalist, POMS College of Service Operations Best Student Paper Competition, 2024.
* Third Place, POMS-China Best Paper Award, 2024.
* Third Place, CSAMSE Best Paper Award, 2024.
云厨房 Ghost Kitchens:
“Uber” Your Cooking: The Sharing-Economy Operations of a Ghost-Kitchen Platform.
With Junyu Cao and Feihong Hu.
To be resubmitted.
大模型赋能优化 LLM + E2E Optimization:
Integrating LLMs and End-to-End Optimization for Urban Operations: A Case Study on Dialogical Management in Shared E-Bike Systems.
With Zihao Jiao, Mengyi Sha, Haoyu Zhang,Xinyu Jiang and Zuo-Jun Max Shen.
预测-决策融合 Integrated Prediction-Optimization:
Overworking or Outsourcing: Integrated Prediction-Optimization for Human-Centric Order Assignment in Last-Mile Delivery.
With Haoran Guo and Meng Qi.
* Winner, INFORMS TSL Best Student Paper Award, 2025.
电力市场虚拟竞价 Electricity Virtual Bidding:
Strategic Virtual Bidding in a Multi-Node Electricity Market.
With Chenbei Lu and Chenye Wu.
无人机+末端骑手 Drone-Courier Coordination:
On Coordinated Drone-Courier Logistics for Intra-city Express Services.
With Shuiwang Chen, Kai Wang and Lingxiao Wu.
海港转运 Transshipment at Seaports:
Direct Transshipment Optimization in Hub Bulk Transshipment Terminals.
With Liangqi Cheng, Xi Lin and Xiwen Bai.
Under revision.
* Second Place, CSAMSE Practice Award, 2025.
步行友好城市@高德 Walkable Cities (with Amap):
Data-Driven Facility Layout for Enhancing Walk Appeal in Walkable Neighborhoods.
With Haoran Guo, Sentao Miao, Jian Cui and Zhenning Dong.
Finalist, INFORMS PSOR Best Paper Award, 2025.
* Winner, CSAMSE Best Paper Award, 2026.
零售端食物浪费 Combating Food Waste:
Combating Food Waste: When Simple Perishable Inventory and Pricing Strategies Become (Near) Optimal.
With Zichun Liu and Sentao Miao.
大模型赋能时间研究 VLM-Revolutionized Time Studies:
Vision Time Measurement.
With Yifan Li, Xiaowei Yue, Shuangshou Li and Li Zheng.
有序换电 Coordinated Battery Swapping:
Citywide Orchestration of Electric Vehicle Battery Swapping.
With Zhiyuan Wang, Xian Guo and Lun Ran.
共享电单车@美团骑行 E-Bike Sharing (with Meituan):
Running on Empty? Reference Dependence and V-Shaped Decisions in Shared E-Bike User Choice.
With Genshen Fu, Dazhou Lei, Xinyu Jiang and Zuo-Jun Max Shen.
网络韧性恢复 Resilience of Coupled Networks:
Orchestrating Interdependent Infrastructure Post-Disaster Recovery.
With Jiaxu Huang, Nan Li and Dongping Fang.
补货大模型 A Large Inventory Model (with JD.com):
ORPR: An OR-Guided Pretrain-then-Reinforce Learning Model for Inventory Management.
With Lingjie Zhao, Xue Yu, Yongzhi Qi, Hao Hu, Jianshen Zhang, Yingzheng Ma, Shuyu Han, and Zuo-Jun Max Shen.
Second Place, CSAMSE Practice Award, 2026.
生成式供应链计划@京东 Gen-AI for Supply Chain Planning (with JD.com):
Rethinking Supply Chain Planning: A Generative Paradigm.
With Jiaheng Yin, Yongzhi Qi, Jianshen Zhang, Dongyang Geng, Zhengyu Chen, Hao Hu, and Zuo-Jun Max Shen.
黑盒预测-鲁棒决策 Prescriptive Analytics with Black-Box Predictors:
Conformal Robust Optimization and Satisficing for Prescriptive Analytics with Black-Box Predictors.
With Lingjie Zhao, and Hansheng Jiang.
物理信息机器学习做优化 Physics-Informed ML for Optimization:
PolyFormer: learning efficient reformulations for scalable optimization under complex physical constraints.
With Yilin Wen, Yi Guo, Bo Zhao, Zechun Hu, Colin Jones, and Jian Sun.
零售的幂率 Scaling Laws of Retail:
On the Origins of Scaling in Urban Retail.
With Junyu Cao and Zhuolun Dong.
更公平的救灾物流 The Voice of Fairness:
The Voice of Fairness in Humanitarian Logistics.
With Yiming Guan, Jie Hu, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama and Shuming Wang.
短视频广告推送 Delivering Short-Video Ads:
When to Show the Next Ad on Short-Video Platforms: Joint Content and Frequency Optimization.
With Dairui Wang and Junyu Cao.
移动充电 Energy-Constrained Spatial Queues:
On-Demand Service Zone Design for Energy-Constrained Spatial Queueing Systems.
With Peng Lin, Cheng Hua and Kai Wang.
能源、交通、供应链等期刊发表:
Manifold Optimized GAN Based EV Charging Session Data Generation.
Qifan Wang, Wenqing Ai, Wei Qi and Chengye Wu.
Applied Energy, 2026.
Qifan Wang, Wenqing Ai, Wei Qi and Chengye Wu.
Applied Energy, 2026.
Optimizing urban electric vehicle charging and battery swapping infrastructure: A location-inventory-grid model. Wenqing Ai, Hanyu Cheng and Wei Qi.
Transportation Research Part E, 2026.
A location optimization method for shelter-in-place in case of multi-hazard chemical accidents based on dynamic risk assessment.
Zhichao He, Genserik Reniers, Kaixin Shen, Yiping Bai, Meng Lan, Xinyan Huang, Wei Qi, Xiaoli Lyu, Xiaole Zhang, Wenguo Weng.
Safety Science, 2026.
RideAgent: An LLM-Enhanced Optimization Framework for Automated Taxi Fleet Operations.
Xinyu Jiang, Haoyu Zhang, Mengyi Sha, Zihao Jiao, Long He, Junbo Zhang, Wei Qi.
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2026.
Toward resilient green cloud computing: Joint operations of energy storage and spatial task allocation.
Zihao Jiao, Xiaoxin Xie, Mengyi Sha, Wei Qi.
Omega, 2026.
Evaluation of the resilience of large-scale interdependent infrastructure through simplification-enhanced network modeling.
Kaixin Shen, Meng Lan, Paolo Gardoni, Wenguo Weng, Zilin Xie, Jing Geng, Zhichao He, Wei Qi, Xiaole Zhang.
Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2025.
Uncovering hidden energy injustice in the distribution of urban electric vehicle charging resources.
Z. Jiao, W. Qi, Y. Liu, Z. Wang and L. Ran.
Cell Reports Sustainability, accepted in 2025.
Farsighted Stability of Distributed Energy Resource Sharing.
W. Ai, T. Deng, W. Qi.
Applied Energy, accepted in 2022.
Innovation uncertainty, new product press timing and strategic consumers.
Zhaowei Hao, Wei Qi, Tianxiao Gong, Lihua Chen, Zuo-Jun Max Shen.
Omega, accepted in 2019.
A Second Order Cone Programming Model for PEV Fast-Charging Station Planning.
H. Zhang, S. J. Moura, Z. Hu, W. Qi and Y. Song.
IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, vol.33, no.3, pp. 2763-2777, May 2018.
Joint Planning of PEV Fast-Charging Network and Distributed PV Generation Using the Accelerated Generalized Benders Decomposition.
H. Zhang, S. J. Moura, Z. Hu, W. Qi and Y. Song.
IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification, 4.3 (2018): 789-803.
Coordinating and Sharing Demand-Side Energy Resources - A Conceptual Design.
W. Qi, B. Shen, H. Zhang and Z. M. Shen.
Energy, vol.135, 15 September 2017, Pages 455–465.
Hierarchical Coordinated Control of Plug-in Electric Vehicles Charging in Multi-family Dwellings.
W. Qi, Z. Xu, Z. M. Shen, Z. Hu and Y. Song.
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, vol.5, no.3, pp.1465-1474, May 2014.
Distributed Supervisory Predictive Control of Distributed Wind and Solar Energy Generation Systems.
W. Qi, J. Liu and P. D. Christofides.
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 21, 504-512, 2013.
Supervisory Predictive Control for Long-Term Scheduling of an Integrated Wind/Solar Energy Generation and Water Desalination System.
W. Qi, J. Liu and P. D. Christofides.
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 20, 504-512, 2012.
A Distributed Control Framework for Smart Grid Development: Energy/Water System Optimal Operation and Electric Grid Integration.
W. Qi, J. Liu and P. D. Christofides.
Journal of Process Control, 21, 1504-1516, 2011.
Supervisory Predictive Control of Stand-Alone Wind-Solar Energy Generation Systems.
W. Qi, J. Liu, X. Chen and P. D. Christofides.
IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 19, 199-207, 2011.
会议论文:
Beidan Liu, Zhengqiu Zhu, Chen Gao, Tianle Pu, Yong Zhao, Wei Qi, Quanjun Yin, “Learn to Relax with Large Language Models: Solving Constraint Optimization Problems via Bidirectional Coevolution,” ACL 2026.
Dairui Wang, Junyu Cao, Yan Zhang, Wei Qi, “Cascading bandits: optimizing recommendation frequency in delayed feedback environments,” Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (Neurips) 2023.
T. Wang, C. Wu, W. Qi, “On Data-driven Multi-Product Pricing,” American Control Conference (ACC), New Orleans, Louisiana, May 2021. Also published in IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 5, no. 5, pp. 1687-1692, Nov. 2021.
H. Zhang, S. J. Moura, Z. Hu, W. Qi, and Y. Song, “Joint PEV Charging Station and Distributed PV Generation Planning,” IEEE Power & Energy Soc. Gen. Meeting, 2017.
H. Zhang, W. Qi, Z. Hu, and Y. Song, “Planning Hydrogen Refueling Stations with Coordinated On-Site Electrolytic Production,” IEEE Power & Energy Soc. Gen. Meeting, 2017.
W. Qi, J. Liu, and P. D. Christofides. A two-time-scale framework for supervisory predictive control of an integrated wind/solar energy generation and water desalination system. In Proceedings of the American Control Conference, pages 2677-2682, San Francisco, California, 2011.
W. Qi, J. Liu and P. D. Christofides. Supervisory predictive control of an integrated wind/solar energy generation and water desalination system. In Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Dynamics and Control of Process Systems, pages 821-826, Leuven, Belgium, 2010.
技术报告、专著章节:
Dupuy, Max, Fredrich Kahrl, Frederick Weston, Bo Shen, Andy Satchwell, Peter Cappers, Jennifer Potter, Wei Qi, Ella Zhou, Yingchen Zhang, John Barnett, Travis Lowder, and Lars Bregnbaek. Power Consumption, Demand and Competition Cooperation: Recommendations for the Pilots in Guangdong, Jilin, Jiangsu, and Shanghai. 2017.
Qi, Wei, Roger Sathre, William R Morrow, III, and Arman Shehabi. Unit price scaling trends for chemical products. Berkeley, 2015. LBNL-189844.
“Intelligent supply chain blueprint, “ with Z.-J. M. Shen, Z. Gong, H. Lee, S. Lin, Y. Liang, L. Xin, M. Qi, X. Ma, JD.com, TCL, and Alibaba, 2025. Forthcoming.
He L., Ma G., Qi W., Wang X., Hou S. (2022) Planning and Management of Charging Facilities for Electric Vehicle Sharing. In: Pardalos P.M., Rassia S.T., Tsokas A. (eds) Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Optimization Tools for Smart Cities. Springer Optimization and Its Applications, vol 186. Springer, Cham.