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Congratulations to Wei Qi, Associate Professor in Operations Management, Winner of the INFORMS Chuck ReVelle Rising Star Award 2021

Classified as: Operations Management (T), Wei Qi
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Published on: 19 Dec 2021

A smart city—supported by digital solutions to enhance food access and mobility—is a healthy city. That’s the thinking behind the Implementing Smart Cities Interventions to Build Healthy Cities (SMART) Training Platform co-led by ֱ, the University of Guelph and the University of Manitoba. Today, the Honourable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Health, and the Honourable François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced an investment of $4.95 million over six years for SMART.

Classified as: smart city, food access, mobility, health, urban centres, cities, Laurette Dube, Ernan Haruvy, Yu Ma, Wei Qi, sara ahmed, Alayne Mary Adams, Raja Sengupta
Published on: 5 Jul 2021

Electric vehicle (EV) sharing programs rely on publicly available charging infrastructure. Yet often there simply isn’t enough infrastructure to go around, creating a major barrier to success. In 2016, the vehicle sharing company Car2Go sold off its fleet of EVs in San Diego largely because the city’s charging infrastructure couldn’t keep pace with demand. Or so it seemed. With too many vehicles being dropped off at a few charging points in high-use areas, delays grew.

Classified as: operations management, Wei Qi, Sustainability, Sustainability (R)
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Published on: 16 Jun 2021

Congratulations to the Desautels professors who received 2020 SSHRC Insight Grants and Insight Development Grants.


SSHRC Insight Grants
Classified as: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), David Schumacher, Sebastien Betermier, Lisa Cohen, John-Paul Ferguson, Warut Khern-am-nuai, Alain Pinsonneault, Sergei Sarkissian, Maxime Cohen, Ernan Haruvy, Hyunji So, Wei Qi, Sustainability, Sustainability (R)
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Published on: 23 Feb 2021

The sharp rise in e-commerce during the COVID-19 pandemic has strained the ability of Canada Post and private couriers alike to keep up with demand.

Classified as: Wei Qi, operations management, covid-19
Published on: 13 Jan 2021

Congratulations to Sebastien Betermier, Professor of Finance, and Wei Qi, Professor of Operations Management, who were honoured at ֱ’s Management Convocation ceremony for their excellence in teaching.

Classified as: Sebastien Betermier, Wei Qi, finance, operations management, Faculty Awards
Published on: 2 Jul 2020

Four Desautels professors have been awarded research grants by the Institute for Data Valorization (IVADO), a Montreal-based scientific and economic data science hub. The grants will fund three two-year research projects led by Desautels professors as part of IVADO’s Fundamental Research Funding Program.

Classified as: Maxime Cohen, Saibal Ray, Mehmet Gumus, Wei Qi, Bensadoun School of Retail Management, Master of Management in Analytics (MMA), Sustainability, Sustainability (R)
Published on: 1 Jul 2020

Congratulations to Wei Qi, Assistant Professor in Operations Management, awarded 2019 NSERC Discovery Grant “Towards a Smart-City Future: Urban-Scale Integration of Mobility and Energy Systems”.

Classified as: Wei Qi, operations management, Sustainability, Sustainability (R)
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Published on: 26 Jul 2019

Congratulations to Wei Qi, Assistant Professor in Operations Management, awarded the 2019 FRQSC New Academics Grant (Soutien à la recherche pour la relève professorale) “Le partage de la mobilité durable dans les villes intelligentes” (“Sharing Sustainable Mobility in Smart Cities”). 

Classified as: Wei Qi, operations management, Sustainability, Sustainability (R)
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Published on: 26 Jul 2019

ܳٳǰ:Wei Qi and Zuo-Jun Max Shen

Publication: Production and Operations Management, Forthcoming

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We are entering an era of great expectations towards our cities. The vision of “smart city” has been pursued worldwide to transform urban habitats into superior efficiency, quality and sustainability. This phenomenon prompts us to ponder what role the scholars in operations management (OM) can assume. In this essay, we express our initial thoughts on expanding OM to the smart-city scope. We review smart-city initiatives of governments, industry, national laboratories and academia. We argue that the smart-city movement will transition from the tech-oriented stage to the decision-oriented stage. Hence, a smart city can be perceived as a system scope within which planning and operational decisions are orchestrated at the urban scale, reflective of multidimensional needs, and adaptive to massive data and innovation. The benefits of studying smart-city OM are manifold and significant: contributing to deeper understanding of smart cities by providing advanced analytical frameworks, pushing OM knowledge boundaries (such as data-driven decision making), and empowering the OM community to deliver much broader impacts than before. We discuss several research opportunities to embody these thoughts, in the interconnected contexts of smart buildings, smart grid, smart mobility and new retail. These opportunities arise from the increasing integration of systems and business models at the urban scale.

Classified as: Wei Qi, operations management, Desautels 22, Sustainability, Sustainability (R), Production & Operations Management
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Published on: 10 Sep 2018

Authors: Wei Qi, Lefei Li, Sheng Liu, Zuo-Jun Max Shen

Publication: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Vol. 20, No. 4, Fall 2018

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Classified as: Wei Qi, operations management, Sustainability, Sustainability (R)
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Published on: 29 Mar 2018

ܳٳǰ:Wei Qi, Bo Shen, Hongcai Zhang, Zuo-Jun Max Shen

Publication: Energy, Vol. 135, September 2017

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Classified as: Wei Qi, operations management, Sustainability, Sustainability (R)
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Published on: 29 Mar 2018
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