Services and Awards

Guest Editor

Special Issue ‘Smart Logistics and Supply Chain Management with AI-empowered Physical Internet’ in International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications

Program Chair

11th International Physical Internet Conference, 18-20 June 2025, Hong Kong

Program Chair

4th IEEE International Conference on Automation in Manufacturing, Transportation and Logistics (iCaMaL2024), 7-9 Aug 2024, Hong Kong

Organizing Committee Chair

2024 Annual International Conference for Chinese Scholars in Industrial Engineering & 14th Forum for Council of Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management Department Heads, 9-11 Aug 2024, Hong Kong

Organizing Committee Chair

The 19th International Congress on Logistics and SCM Systems, 7-9 June 2025, Hong Kong

Special Session Organizer

IEEE CASE 2024 Digital twin in smart construction

IEEE CASE 2024 Blockchain-empowered industrial web 3.0

IEEE CASE 2024 Cyber-physical manufacturing for small batch customization: challenges, enabling technologies, and methodologies

IEEE SMC 2024 Smart and sustainable manufacturing systems

Reviewer

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications; IEEE Internet of Things Journal; Journal of Manufacturing Systems; IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management; International Journal of Digital Earth; Digital Twin; Advanced Engineering Informatics; Computers & Industrial Engineering; Computers & Operations Research; International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing; International Journal of Production Research; Transportation Research Part E; Annals of Operations Research; Journal of Advanced Transportation; International Journal of Production Economics; Journal of Industrial Information Integration; Journal of Network and Computer Applications

Physical Internet π-Builder Award 2025

International Physical Internet Conference (IPIC 2025) 2025, Hong Kong, China

Best Digital Manufacturing and Human-Centered Automation Paper in Application ‘Internet of Everything and Digital Twin enabled Service Platform for Cold Chain Logistics’, Wei Wu, Leidi Shen, Zhiheng Zhao, Arjun Rachana Harish, Ray Y. Zhong, and George Q. Huang.

IEEE Robotics & Automation Society, Technical Committee on Digital Manufacturing and Human-Centered Automation, December 17, 2024

Best Paper Award (最佳论文证书) ‘室内定位技术驱动的车间物流智能管控方法及应用研究’, 吴畏, 赵之恒, 李聪波, 黄国全

2024年中国工业工程年会暨第十三届工业工程企业应用与实践高峰论坛, 2024, Zhuhai, China

Highest External Competitive Research Grant Award, Bronze Award 2023/24

Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, PolyU

Award for High SFQ Score 2023/24

Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, PolyU

Best Poster Award ‘DT-PosFormer: A Digital Twin-enabled Transformer Network for Precise Pose Estimation and Trajectory Prediction of MiC Modules’, Yujie Han and Zhiheng Zhao

10th International Physical Internet Conference (IPIC), Savannah, GA, USA

Outstanding Paper Award ‘Logic-based Benders Decomposition for Order Acceptance and Scheduling in Distributed Manufacturing’, Chen, J., Ma, W, Ye, X., Zhao, Z.

Annual International Conference for Chinese Scholars in Industrial Engineering & 13th Forum for Council of Industrial Engineering and Logistic Management Department Heads

Best Paper First Prize ‘On Spatial-temporal Traceability and Relativity for Industry 4.0 Applications’, Zhao, Z., Zhang, M., Chen, Q., Huang, George Q., Wu, W.

Annual International Conference for Digital Intelligence Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Young Teachers Excellent Teaching Award

Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications

First-class Award, Young Talent of Teaching Competition

Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications

Entrepreneurship and Innovation Talent Award 江蘇省“雙創人才”

Jiangsu Government, China

Best Paper Award ‘Optimization based transportation service trading in B2B e-commerce logistics’, Zhang, M., Huang, G. Q., Xu, S. X., & Zhao, Z.

The 7th Forum for Council of Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management Department Heads & The 5th Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers Asia Conference.