Siqian Shen

Professor
Associate Chair for Graduate Education
Department of Industrial & Operations Engineering
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

Focused Issue Editor, IISE Transactions

Fellow, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE)

Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Address:
2893 IOE, 1205 Beal Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA

Email: siqian [at] umich [dot] edu

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

Associate Chair for Graduate Education, Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE), University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 2026-present
Professor of IOE and CEE (joint appointment), University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2023-present
Associate Director for Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering (MICDE), 2016-2023, 2025-present
Program Director, National Science Foundation, ENG/CMMI, 2023-2025
Associate Professor of IOE, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2017-2023
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE; dry appointment), University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2018-2023
Assistant Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE), University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2011-2017

Research Interests

Theory: Stochastic programming, robust optimization, integer programming, network optimization.
Application: transportation, energy, healthcare, orbital computing, space data centers and supply chains

Editorial Board

Past:

Honors and Awards

2026 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Senior Member
2025 Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Fellow
2024 US National Science Foundation Director’s Award for Superior Accomplishment (Group)
2021-2024 IOE Richard Wilson Faculty Scholar
2025 Best Paper Award Finalist in the annual publications in Computers & Operations Research (journal)
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 (journal) 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

Selected Service

Invited speaker at the INFORMS Annual Meeting New Faculty Colloquium (NFC), 2026.
Award Committee Member, INFORMS Donald P Gaver Early Career Award, 2026.
Prize Committee Member, Roger J-B Wets Junior Researcher Best Paper Prize in Stochastic Programming, 2025.
Co-chair, INFORMS George Nicholson Student Paper Competition Award Committee, 2024.
Nominating Committee Member, INFORMS Board of Directors, 2023.
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.