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Prof Wei Qi wins INFORMS Chuck ReVelle Rising Star Award 2021

webfull — Sun, 19 Dec 2021 22:13:17 +0000

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

Published: 19 December 2021

$4.95 million to make cities smarter

webfull — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 14:32:27 +0000

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 McGill, 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.

Published: 5 July 2021

Charging an Electric Vehicle-Sharing Fleet

webfull — Wed, 16 Jun 2021 20:37:43 +0000

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.

Published: 16 June 2021

2020 SSHRC Insight Grants awarded

webfull — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 23:02:04 +0000

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

SSHRC Insight Grants

Professor Laurent Barras (with Professor David Schumacher)
Professor Sebastien Betermier
Professor Lisa Cohen

Published: 23 February 2021

Crowdshipping could be answer to delivery delays as e-commerce soars

webfull — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 14:33:17 +0000

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.

Published: 13 January 2021

Desautels professors celebrated for their teaching excellence

webfull — Thu, 02 Jul 2020 16:54:52 +0000

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

Published: 2 July 2020

Desautels professors awarded IVADO research funding

webfull — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 13:29:59 +0000

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.

Published: 1 July 2020

Wei Qi awarded 2019 NSERC Discovery Grant

webfull — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 17:49:47 +0000

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”.

Published: 26 July 2019

Wei Qi awarded 2019 FRQSC New Academics Grant

webfull — Fri, 26 Jul 2019 17:41:06 +0000

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”).

Published: 26 July 2019

A Smart-City Scope of Operations Management

webfull — Mon, 10 Sep 2018 19:59:05 +0000

Authors: Wei Qi and Zuo-Jun Max Shen

Publication: Production and Operations Management, Forthcoming

Abstract:

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.

Published: 10 September 2018