Wei Qi

Tsinghua University - Department of Industrial Engineering

Beijing

China

McGill University - Desautels Faculty of Management

1001 Sherbrooke Street West

Montreal, Quebec H3A 1G5

Canada

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (18)

1.

Shared Mobility for Last-Mile Delivery: Design, Operational Prescriptions and Environmental Impact

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 26 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 21 Feb 2020
Tsinghua University - Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University - Department of Industrial Engineering, Rotman School of Management and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research (IEOR)
Downloads 1,532 (26,431)
Citation 9

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Logistics Planning, Shared Mobility, Open-Loop Vehicle Routing Problem, Sustainability

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Scaling Up Electric-Vehicle Battery Swapping Services in Cities: A Joint Location and Repairable-Inventory Model

Management Science
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 22 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 17 Oct 2022
Tsinghua University - Department of Industrial Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology - School of Management and Economics and Lanzhou University - Lanzhou University School of Management
Downloads 960 (52,086)
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battery swapping, electric vehicles, sustainable operations, non-convex optimization algorithms, facility location, smart cites

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Stall Economy: The Value of Mobility in Retail on Wheels

Forthcoming, Operations Research
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 16 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2023
Junyu Cao and Wei Qi
University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business and Tsinghua University - Department of Industrial Engineering
Downloads 880 (58,697)
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stall economy, mobile retail, self-driving, rendezvous problem, spatial queues

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Distributionally Robust Operations of Networked Distribution Centers at Scale

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 11 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 07 May 2024
Beijing Institute of Technology - School of Management & Economics, Rotman School of Management, Tsinghua University - Department of Industrial Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology and Wilfrid Laurier University - School of Business & Economics
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Inventroy Network, Distributionally Robust Optimization, Supermodularity

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A Smart-City Scope of Operations Management

Forthcoming, Production and Operations Management
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 24 May 2018 Last Revised: 04 Nov 2019
Wei Qi and Zuo-Jun Max Shen
Tsinghua University - Department of Industrial Engineering and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research (IEOR)
Downloads 675 (83,286)
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smart city, urban-scale integration, smart grid, shared mobility

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Charging an Electric Vehicle Sharing Fleet

Manufacturing and Service Operations Management
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 15 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2020
George Washington University, Tianjin University - College of Management and Economics, Tsinghua University - Department of Industrial Engineering and University of Wisconsin-Madison
Downloads 625 (91,917)
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smart city operations, electric vehicles, car sharing, charging infrastructure

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Online Facility Location: Running Stores on Wheels with Spatial Demand Learning

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 28 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 08 Jan 2024
Junyu Cao, Wei Qi and Yan Zhang
University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business, Tsinghua University - Department of Industrial Engineering and McGill University, Desautels Faculty of Management, Students
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mobile retail, facility location, contextual bandits, continuous approximation, joint learning and optimization

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From Curtailed Renewable Energy to Green Hydrogen: Infrastructure Planning for Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Vehicles

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 07 Jul 2022 Last Revised: 11 Nov 2024
George Washington University, National University of Singapore (NUS) - Institute of Operations Research and Analytics, National University of Singapore (NUS) - Institute of Operations Research and Analytics, Tsinghua University - Department of Industrial Engineering and University of Macau
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hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle, infrastructure planning, green transportation, power systems

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Crowdsourcing Electric Mobility for Omni-Sharing Distributed Energy Resources

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 15 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 04 Nov 2024
Wenqing Ai, Tianhu Deng and Wei Qi
Tsinghua University - Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University and Tsinghua University - Department of Industrial Engineering
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omni-sharing, peer-to-peer sharing, energy-sharing, shared mobility, distributed energy resources, smart-city operations

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When Shared Autonomous Electric Vehicles Meet Microgrids: Citywide Energy-Mobility Orchestration

Forthcoming in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 10 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 02 Oct 2021
Wei Qi, Mengyi Sha and Shanling li
Tsinghua University - Department of Industrial Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and McGill University
Downloads 315 (205,290)
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shared autonomous electric vehicles, solar-powered microgrids, smart city operations

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Coins, Cards, or Apps: Impact of Payment Methods on Street Parking Occupancy and Search Times

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 11 May 2023 Last Revised: 22 Jan 2025
McGill University - Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University - Desautels Faculty of Management and Tsinghua University - Department of Industrial Engineering
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street parking, payment methods, regression discontinuity design, survival analysis, online survey

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Balancing Algorithmic Clairvoyance with Human Preferences: An Inverse Reinforcement Learning Approach for Last-Mile Deliveries

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 30 Nov 2023 Last Revised: 08 May 2024
Tsinghua University - Department of Industrial Engineering, The university of HongKong, Beijing Jiaotong University - School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University - Department of Industrial Engineering and University of California, Berkeley - Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research (IEOR)
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last-mile delvery,inverse reinforcemnet learning, service operations

13.

Planning Stormwater Retention for Resilience Against Extreme Rainfalls

Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 4238919
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 18 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 25 Sep 2024
Sheng Liu, Wei Qi and Aiqi Zhang
Rotman School of Management, Tsinghua University - Department of Industrial Engineering and Wilfrid Laurier University - School of Business & Economics
Downloads 264 (247,901)

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extreme rainfalls; stormwater retention; robust optimization; climate adaptation

14.

"Uber" Your Cooking: The Sharing-Economy Operations of a Ghost-Kitchen Platform

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 30 Jun 2023 Last Revised: 02 Oct 2024
Junyu Cao, Feihong Hu and Wei Qi
University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin, Red McCombs School of Business, Students and Tsinghua University - Department of Industrial Engineering
Downloads 258 (252,768)

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ghost kitchens, sharing-economy, fork-join queue, on-demand service, vehicle routing

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Coastal Groundwater Management: Seawater Intrusion Prevention, Artificial Recharge, and Climate Adaptation

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 20 Sep 2022 Last Revised: 28 Nov 2023
Tsinghua University - Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, Tsinghua University - Department of Industrial Engineering and International Institute of Finance, School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China
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groundwater management, seawater intrusion barriers, managed aquifer recharge

16.

Retail on Autonomous Wheels: A Time-Sensitive Traveling Salesman Problem

Number of pages: 81 Posted: 20 Jul 2023 Last Revised: 10 Jan 2024
Zhuolun Dong, Junyu Cao and Wei Qi
University of Texas at Austin, Red McCombs School of Business, Department of Information, Risk and Operations Management, Students, University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business and Tsinghua University - Department of Industrial Engineering
Downloads 164 (386,367)

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continuous approximation, TSP, time-sensitive TSP, mobile retail

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Human-Centric Order Picking: Performance Prediction and Robot Assignment at a Robotic Fulfilment Center

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 22 Nov 2023
Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, Hainan University - School of Management, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics and Tsinghua University - Department of Industrial Engineering
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robotic fulfillment centers; pickers' real-time performance; statistical learning; assignment optimization

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Generating Standard Operating Procedures Toward Precision Manufacturing: An Optimization-Augmented Large Vision-Language Model

Winner of 2024 INFORMS QSR Best Student Paper
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 18 Nov 2024 Last Revised: 20 Dec 2024
Georgia Institute of Technology - H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Tsinghua University - BRNist, Tsinghua University - Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University - Department of Industrial Engineering and Tsinghua University - Department of Industrial Engineering
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Production Systems, Operation Management, Standard Operating Procedure, Large Vision-Language Model.