Assistant Professor
School of Computing and Information Systems
Singapore Management University
haiwang@smu.edu.sg
Visiting Assistant Professor
Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy
Carnegie Mellon University
haiwang@cmu.edu
Education
Ph.D., Operations Research, MIT
Co-advisors: Professor Amedeo Odoni, Chancellor Cynthia Barnhart
M.S., Operations Research, MIT
M.S., Transportation, MIT
B.S., Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University
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We are actively looking for Ph.D. applicants and Research Assistants (including RA working remotely). Please contact us through email if interested.
Methodologies
• Data-Driven Optimization
• Large-Scale Data Analytics
• Advanced Computing Methods
• Machine Learning
Applications
• Smart Cities and Urban Systems
• Innovative Transportation and Mobility
• Shared Services and Sharing Economy
• Logistics and Healthcare
Selected Journal Publication
• Ke, J., Yang, H., Li, X., Wang*, H. and Ye, J., 2020. Pricing and Equilibrium in On-Demand Ride-Pooling Markets. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 139, 411-431. [link]
• Ho, K., Wang, H., DeTrempe, P., Sarton, T. and Tomita, K., 2020. Semi-Analytical Model for Design and Analysis of On-Orbit Servicing Architecture. Journal of Spacecraft and Rockets, 57(6), 1129-1138. [link]
• Yang, H., Shao, C., Wang*, H. and Ye, J., 2020. Integrated Reward Scheme and Surge Pricing in a Ride-Sourcing Market. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 134, 126-142. [link]
• Wang, H. and Yang, H., 2019. Ride-Sourcing Systems: A Framework and Review. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 129, 122-155. [link]
• Wang*, H., 2019. Routing and Scheduling for a Last-Mile Transportation System. Transportation Science, 53(1), 131-147. [link]
• Bai, J., So, K., Tang, C., Chen, X. and Wang, H., 2019. Coordinating Supply and Demand on an On-Demand Service Platform with Impatient Customers. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 21(3), 556-570. [link]
• Sun, H., Wang*, H. and Wan, Z., 2019. Model and Analysis of Labor Supply for Ride-Sharing Platforms in the Presence of Sample Self-Selection and Endogeneity. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 125, 76-93. [link]
• Chen, Y. and Wang*, H., 2018. Pricing for a Last-Mile Transportation System. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 107, 57-69. [link]
• Luo, Y. and Wang#, H., 2017. Core Determining Class and Inequality Selection. American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 107(5), 274-277. [link]
• Wang*, H. and Odoni, A., 2016. Approximating the Performance of a Last-Mile Transportation System. Transportation Science, 50(2), 659-675. [link]
Book Chapters
• Bai, J., So, K., Tang, C., Chen, X. and Wang, H. Time-Based Payout Ratio for Coordinating Supply and Demand on an On-Demand Service Platform. Sharing Economy: Making Supply Meet Demand, M. Hu (Ed.), in Springer Series in Supply Chain Management, C. Tang (Series Ed.), 2019.
• Sun, H., Wang, H. and Wan, Z. Model and Analysis of Service Labor Supply for Shared Transportation. Business Management with Big Data, J. Chen (Ed.), 2020.
Policy Reports
• Data-Driven Reopening Strategies for State and Local Governments. Report and slides. Cited in:
Mitigating Economic Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Preserving U.S. Strategic Competitiveness in Artificial Intelligence [link], National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence.
Process to Reopen Pennsylvania (May 12, 2020) [link], Pennsylvania Governor's Office.
General Media and News
• Food Delivery: Platform Design, Operations, and Regulations (Article in Chinese). Huxiu [link], Tencent Tech [link], Sina Finance [link], Sina Tech [link], 36 Kr [link].
• Food Delivery (Part 1): Tolerance to Fault (Article in Chinese). The Paper (Pengpai News) [link].
• Food Delivery (Part 2): How Governments Regulate (Article in Chinese). The Paper (Pengpai News) [link].
Conference and Other Publication
• Zhu, Z., Ke, J. and Wang, H., 2021. A Mean-Field Markov Decision Process Model for Spatial-Temporal Subsidies in Ride-Sourcing Markets. Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory (ISTTT24) (tentative accept).
• Wang*, H. and Wang, Z., 2020. Short-Term Repositioning for Empty Vehicles on Ride-Sourcing Platforms. Proceedings of the INFORMS TSL Second Triennial Conference.
• Zheng, Y., Luo, H., Wang, H., Zheng, Z. and Ooi, O., 2020. Validation of Prognostic Accuracy of the SOFA Score, SIRS Criteria, and qSOFA Score for In-Hospital Mortality among Cardiac-, Thoracic-, and Vascular-Surgery Patients Admitted to a Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit. Journal of Cardiac Surgery, 35(1), 118–127.
• Lyu, G., Cheung, W., Teo, C. and Wang*, H., 2019. Matching Passengers and Drivers with Multiple Objectives in Ride Sharing Markets. Proceedings of the Tenth Triennial Symposium on Transportation Analysis (TRISTAN X).
• Kulkarni, K., Lau, H., Wang, H., Sivabalasingam, S. and Tran, K., 2018. Design and Implementation of Decision Support for Traffic Management at Multipurpose Port Gates. Proceedings of the 2018 Winter Simulation Conference.
• Wang*, H., Jin, J. and Yang, J., 2018. Optimization of a Cyclic Express Subway Service. Proceedings of the 6th Intl. Symposium on Reliability Engineering and Risk Management.
• Kulkarni, K., Tran, K., Wang, H. and Lau, H., 2017. Efficient Gate System Operations for a Multi-Purpose Port using Simulation Optimization. Proceedings of the 2017 Winter Simulation Conference.
• Wang*, H., Jin, J. and Lin, M., 2013. Solving the Railway Yard Operation Problem: Greedy Heuristics, Integer Programming Models, and Waiting Time Approximations. Technical Report for 2013 INFORMS RAS Problem Solving Competition (First Prize Winner).
• Wang*, H. and Odoni, A., 2013. Approximate Design Parameters for a Last-Mile Transportation System. Proceedings of the Eighth Triennial Symposium on Transportation Analysis (TRISTAN VIII).
Working Papers
• Lyu, G., Cheung, W., Teo, C. and Wang*, H. "Multi-Objective Online Optimization: A Case of Real-Time Matching in Ride-Sourcing Markets." [link]
• Jin, J., Meng, Q. and Wang#, H. "Feeder Vessel Routing and Transshipment Coordination at a Congested Hub Port." [link]
• Luo, Y. and Wang#, H. "Identifying and Computing the Exact Core-Determining Class." [link]
• Chen, Y. and Wang*, H. "Why Are Fairness Concerns So Important? Lessons from a Shared Last-Mile Transportation System." [link]
• Cheung, W., Lyu, G., Teo, C. and Wang#, H. "Online Planning with Offline Simulation." [link]
• Shehadeh, K., Wang#, H. and Zhang, P.Y. "Fleet Sizing and Allocation for On-Demand Last-Mile Transportation Systems." [link]
• Zhou, Y., Yang, H., Ke, J., Wang, H. and Li, X. "Competitive Ride-Sourcing Market with a Third-Party Integrator." [link]
• He, Y., Luo, Q., Wang#, H. and Zheng, Z. "Estimating Patient Health Transition from Data Censored by Treatment-Effect-Based Policy."
• Sun, H., Wang*, H. and Wan, Z. "Flexible Labor Supply Behaviour on Ride-Sharing Platforms."
• Luo, Y. and Wang#, H. "Improving Adaptivity Using Multiple Models in a Dynamic Environment."
• Zhu, Z., Ke, J. and Wang, H. "A Mean-Field Markov Decision Process Model for Spatial-Temporal Subsidies in Ride-Sourcing Markets."
• Bahrami, S., Nourinejad, M., Yin, Y. and Wang, H. "The Three-Sided Market of Peer-to-Peer Crowd-Shipping."
Conference Presentations
• INFORMS 2020 Annual Meeting, National Harbor, Maryland, USA. Nov. 2020
• The 11th POMS-HK International Conference, Hong Kong, China. Jan. 2020
• INFORMS 2019 Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, USA. Oct. 2019
• The 12th International Conference of the Chinese Scholars Association for Management Science and Engineering (CSAMSE), Chengdu, Sichuan, China. Jul. 2019
• The 10th Triennial Symposium on Transportation Analysis (TRISTAN X), Hamilton Island, Australia. Jun. 2019
• Chan Wui & Yunyin Rising Star Workshop in Transportation, Bellagio, Italy. Jun. 2019
• The 10th POMS-HK International Conference, Hong Kong, China. Jan. 2019
• The 5th Young Scholar Workshop on Management Science, Xiamen, Fujian, China. Jan. 2019
• INFORMS 2018 Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. Nov. 2018
• The 16th Annual Meeting of the Society of Management Science and Engineering of China, Kunming, Yunan, China. Oct. 2018
• The 10th International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science (CTS), Beijing, China. Jul. 2018
• The 11th International Conference of the Chinese Scholars Association for Management Science and Engineering (CSAMSE), Ningbo, Zhejiang, China. Jul. 2018
• Tsinghua-JD-POMS International Workshop, Qingdao, Shandong, China. Jun. 2018
• The 6th INFORMS TSL Workshop, Hong Kong, China. Jan. 2018
• The 9th POMS-HK International Conference, Hong Kong, China. Jan. 2018
• INFORMS TSL First Triennial Conference, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Jul. 2017
• AEA 2017 Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Jan. 2017
• TRB 2017 Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., USA. Jan. 2017
• INFORMS 2016 Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, USA. Nov. 2016
• INFORMS 2015 Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Nov. 2015
• Future Urban Mobility Symposium 2015, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, Singapore. Jul. 2015
• INFORMS 2014 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA. Oct. 2014
• Future Urban Mobility Symposium 2014, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, Singapore. Jan. 2014
• INFORMS 2013 Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. Oct. 2013
• The 8th Triennial Symposium on Transportation Analysis (TRISTAN VIII), San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. Jun. 2013
Invited Seminars
• University of Minnesota, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Jan. 2021
• University of Michigan, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Nov. 2020
• New York University, Center for Connected Cities with Smart Transportation. Mar. 2020
• Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Jan. 2020
• Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Jan. 2020
• Tsinghua University, School of Public Policy and Management. Dec. 2019
• University of California, Berkeley, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. Nov. 2019
• Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business. Nov. 2019
• MIT, Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Oct. 2019
• Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Computer Science. Sep. 2019
• Carnegie Mellon University, Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy. Sep. 2019
• Singapore Management University, LKC School of Business. Aug. 2019
• University of Science and Technology of China, School of Management. Jul. 2019
• Tongji University, School of Economics and Management. Jul. 2019
• Southeast University, School of Transportation. Jul. 2019
• Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Centre (SMART), Future Urban Mobility Group. Jul. 2019
• Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, School of Business Administration. Jul. 2019
• Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HKUST-DiDi Joint Research Laboratory. May 2019
• Sichuan University, School of Business. May 2019
• Zhejiang University, Institute of Intelligent Transportation Systems. Apr. 2019
• Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen), School of Economics and Management. Apr. 2019
• Tsinghua University, School of Economics and Management. Dec. 2018
• Beijing Jiaotong University, State Key Lab of Rail Traffic Control and Safety. Dec. 2018
• Chongqing University, School of Economics and Business Administration. Dec. 2018
• Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, School of Civil Aviation. Dec. 2018
• Southwest Jiaotong University, School of Transportation and Logistics. Dec. 2018
• Tsinghua University, Department of Civil Engineering. Dec. 2018
• Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Antai School of Economics and Management. Jul. 2018
• Chinese University of Hong Kong, CUHK Business School. Mar. 2018
• City University of Hong Kong, Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management. Jan. 2018
• Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Department of Transportation Engineering. Dec. 2017
• University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, School of Management and Economics. Nov. 2017
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Jul. 2017
• Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, School of Business Administration. Jul. 2017
• Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, School of Urban and Regional Science. Jun. 2017
• Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Business School. May 2017
• Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Department of Transportation Engineering. May 2017
• Zhejiang University, School of Public Affairs. Apr. 2016
• Zhejiang University, College of Civil Engineering and Architecture. Mar. 2016
• Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Department of Transportation Engineering. Aug. 2015
• Singapore University of Technology and Design, Engineering Systems and Design Pillar. Mar. 2015
• Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Antai School of Economics and Management. Mar. 2015
• Tsinghua University, Department of Industrial Engineering. Mar. 2015
• Singapore Management University, School of Information Systems. Feb. 2015
• National University of Singapore, NUS Business School. Feb. 2015
Industry Talks
• LalaMove Corp. (Huolala), Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. Jan. 2020
• Uber Inc., San Francisco, California, USA. Nov. 2019
• Lyft Inc., San Francisco, California, USA. Nov. 2019
• Upwork Inc., Santa Clara, California, USA. Nov. 2019
• Didi Chuxing Corp., Mountain View, California, USA. Nov. 2019
• Douban Inc., Beijing, China. Apr. 2019
• Didi Chuxing Corp., Team of Supply Incentives, Beijing, China. Jun. 2018
• Baidu Inc., Beijing, China. Jun. 2018
• Didi Chuxing Corp., Team of Pricing, Beijing, China. Jun. 2018
• Jingdong Corp. (JD.com), Beijing, China. Jun. 2018
• Didi Chuxing Corp., Operations Innovation Center, Beijing, China. May 2018
• Didi Chuxing Corp., DiDi Research Lab, Beijing, China. May 2017
Honors and Awards
• PwC Risk and Regulatory Service Innovation Research Award, 2020
• Outstanding Paper Award, The 3rd Conference of the Yangtze-River Research and Innovation Belt, 2020
• Fellow, Chan Wui & Yunyin Rising Star Workshop in Mobility and Transportation, 2019
• Singapore Management University Lee Kong Chian Fellowship for Research Excellence, 2018, 2019
• Best Paper Award, The 10th International Workshop on Computational Transportation Science (CTS), 2018
• Singapore Management University Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, 2017
• Short-list Nominee for Goodwin Medal of MIT Best Teaching Assistant, 2014
• Semifinalist in MIT 100K Entrepreneurship Competition (Project: Shared Logistics), 2014
• First Prize Winner in INFORMS RAS Problem Solving Competition, 2013
• MIT Chyn Duog Shish Memorial Fellowship for Excellent Ph.D. Student, 2009
• Graduation with Highest Honors (Top 1%), Tsinghua University, 2009
• Ranked 1st in Department of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2009
• National Award for Excellent Graduate, China Civil Engineering Society, 2009
• Jiang Nanxiang Presidential Fellowship, Tsinghua University, 2008
• National Scholarship, Ministry of Education, China, 2008
• First Class Honors Fellowship, Tsinghua University, 2005 – 2008
• Ranked 1st in NCEE Subject of Comprehensive Science, Sichuan, China, 2005
Research Grants
• Mobility21 (A National University Transportation Center of Department of Transportation, USA). Co-Principal Investigator. Project Title: Joint Optimization of School Bus Routes and Last-Mile Services. 2020 – 2021. Award Amount: US$93,379.
• PwC Risk and Regulatory Service Innovation Center. Principal Investigator. Project Title: Financial Crime Prediction and Detection. 2020. Award Amount: US$26,604.
• Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Centre (SMART), Future Urban Mobility Group. Principal Investigator. Project Title: Matching in On-Demand Shared Transportation. 2019 – 2020. Award Amount: SG$50,040.
• Singapore MOE Tier 2 Academic Research Fund, Co-Principal Investigator. Project Title: Optimal Control of Medical Treatment using Predictive Information in ICUs. 2019 – 2022. Award Amount: SG$620,532.
• Didi Chuxing, Principal Investigator. Project Title: Optimizing Driver Incentives through Understanding Driver Behavior. 2017 – 2018. Award Amount: SG$10,000.
• Didi Chuxing, Co-Principal Investigator. Project Title: Deep Learning Dynamic Demand Estimation and Pricing for Two-Sided Platform. 2017 – 2018. Award Amount: US$15,000.
• Singapore MOE Tier 1 Academic Research Fund, Co-Principal Investigator. Project Title: Predictive Data Analytics and Real-Time Risk Monitoring for Intensive Care Units. 2017 – 2019. Award Amount: SG$149,710.
• Singapore MOE Tier 1 Academic Research Fund, Principal Investigator. Project Title: Pricing and Design of a Last-Mile Transportation System with Multi-Type Users. 2016 – 2019. Award Amount: SG$130,923.
Professional Service
• Editorial Service for Academic Journals
Guest Editor. Service Science
Special Issue on Innovation in Transportation-Enabled Services, 2020 – Present
Guest Editor. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological
Special Issue on Innovative Shared Transportation, 2018 – 2020
• Referee for Academic Journals and Peer-reviewed Conferences (in alphabetical order)
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Computers and Industrial Engineering
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
ETRI Journal on Electronics and Telecommunications
EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics
IEEE Access
IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
IISE Transactions
Information Systems Research
INFORMS Journal on Optimization
INFORMS TSL Triennial Conference
International Journal of Industrial Organization
International Journal of Production Economics
International Journal of Sustainable Transportation
ISTTT Conference
Journal of Advanced Transportation
Journal of Economics and Management Strategy
Journal of Public Transportation
Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services
Journal of Transport and Land Use
Management Science
Manufacturing and Service Operations Management
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Naval Research Logistics
Networks and Spatial Economics
Omega: The International Journal of Management Science
Production and Operations Management
Public Transport
Service Science
Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting
Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
Transportation Research Part B: Methodological
Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies
Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment
Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review
Transportation Research Record
Transport Reviews
Transportation Science
Transportmetrica A: Transport Science
Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics
• Scientific Committee Member for Conferences
The 8th INFORMS TSL Workshop, Ahmedabad, India
INFORMS TSL Second Triennial Conference, Arlington, Virginia, USA
The 11th POMS-HK International Conference, Hong Kong, China
The 10th POMS-HK International Conference, Hong Kong, China
• Referee for Academic and Professional Organizations
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
Hong Kong Research Grants Council
POMS-China Best Student Paper Competition
POMS-HK Best Student Paper Competition
• Chair of Invited Session for Conferences
The 13th CSAMSE Conference, Shanghai, China
INFORMS 2020 Annual Meeting, National Harbor, Maryland, USA
IFORS 2020 Conference, Seoul, Korea
The 11th POMS-HK International Conference, Hong Kong, China
INFORMS 2019 Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, USA
The 10th POMS-HK International Conference, Hong Kong, China
INFORMS 2018 Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
The 6th INFORMS TSL Workshop, Hong Kong, China
INFORMS 2016 Annual Meeting, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
INFORMS 2014 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA
• Member of Academic and Professional Organizations
INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences)
TRB (Transportation Research Board)
AEA (American Economic Association)
TSL (Transportation Science and Logistics Society)
Other Service
• Co-founder and Chair, MIT-China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum. 2011 – 2017
• Vice President, Boston Tsinghua Alumni Association. 2012 – 2015
• Director, Harvard SEED Community on Citizenship and Social Innovation. 2012 – 2013
• Co-president, MIT Chinese Students and Scholars Association. 2011 – 2012
Teaching Awards
• Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, Singapore Management University
• Short-list Nominee for Goodwin Medal of Best Teaching Assistant, MIT
Courses
• Carnegie Mellon University, Instructor
Decision Making Under Uncertainty, 2019 – 2020
Last student evaluation: 4.67/5.0
Capstone Project for M.S. in Business Analytics and Information Systems, 2019 – 2021
Last student evaluation: 5.0/5.0
• Singapore Management University, Instructor
Spreadsheet Modeling and Analytics, 2020 – 2021
Last student evaluation: 6.90/7.0
Computer as an Analysis Tool, 2015 – 2019
Last student evaluation: 6.78/7.0
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Guest Lecturer
Deep Learning for Urban Mobility, Oct. 2019
• Tsinghua University, Guest Lecturer
Regulations of Platform and Sharing Economy, Dec. 2020
Urban Operations Research, May 2017
• Carnegie Mellon University, Guest Lecturer
Innovative and Sustainable Operations, Apr. 2020
Decision Analytics for Business and Policy, Mar. 2020
• Singapore Management University, Guest Lecturer
Big Data and Entrepreneurship: Methodology and Case Studies, 2016 – 2019
Case Study in Translational Artificial Intelligence, Oct. 2018
Coaching for a Business Plan Competition, Jul. 2016
• Singapore University of Technology and Design, Guest Lecturer
Optimization, Oct. 2017
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Teaching Assistant
Logistical and Transportation Planning Methods (Urban O.R.), Fall 2012, 2013
Last student evaluation: 6.90/7.0