1. Best Paper Award Finalist “Job Cycle Time Prediction in Semiconductor Manufacturing Process using Fuzzy C-means Based Genetic Algorithm and Back Propagation Network”, 2018 International Symposium on Semiconductor Manufacturing Intelligence (ISMI2018) & 2018 IEEE International Conference on Smart Manufacturing, Industrial & Logistics Engineering (IEEE SMILE 2018), Taiwan, Feb 9, 2018.
2. Best Paper Award, “A bi-objective mathematical programming for medical relief shelter location problem”, The Second Global Conference on Theory and Applications of OR/OM for Sustainability, Beijing, China, Sep. 2017.
3. Best Student Paper Award, “Medical Relief Shelter Location Considering the Severity of Patients Under Limited Relief Budget”, The 46th International Conference on Computers & Industrial Engineering, Tianjin, China, Nov. 2016.
4. Best Paper Award, “Lower and Upper Bounds for Military Deployment Planning Considering Combat”, The 17th International Conference on Industrial Engineering, Busan, Korea, Oct. 2013.
5. Best Paper Award, “Spatial Scheduling for Large Assembly Blocks in Ship Building Industries”, The 9th International Conference on Intelligent Manufacturing and Logistics Systems, Shanghai, China, Feb. 2013.
6. Best Research Award, “Algorithm to Optimize the Operations in Large Block Assembly for Ship Building”, Leaders in Industry-University Corporation Research Grant, Korea, Feb. 2013.
7. 2007-2008 Biennial Best Paper Award – “Optimisation of Process Conditions in Powder Injection Moulding (PIM) of Microsystem Components Using a Robust Design Method. Part I: Primary Design Parameters”, June 2008 (Volume 51, Pages 133-142), Powder Metallurgy, by The Particulate Engineering Committee of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, UK, 2009.
8. Best Research Award, “An Embryo Zebrafish Metric for Evaluating Nanomaterial-Biological Interactions”, 47th Annual Meeting of the Society of Toxicology, Seattle, WA, Feb. 2008 (coauthored with Harper, S. and Tanguay, R.)
9. Editorial board of International Journal of Experimental Design and Process Optimisation, Inderscience Publishers, ISSN: 2040-2252, 2008.07~present.
10. Program Committee, PICMET ’06, 2006
11. Listed in Who’sWho in America, Marquis, New Providence, NJ, USA, 2008, 2009, 2010
12. Selected as a support recipient for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Workshop on Building Technology, organized by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, sponsored by U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC), 2006
13. Selected as supported participant in Material Handling Teachers Institutes (MHTI), organized by University of Louisville and Material Handling Industry of America (MHIA), 2003
14. Selected as supported participant in Workshop on Supply Chain Management Practice and Research: Status and Future Directions, April 18 – 19, 2001, NIST, NSF, and Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland., Rockville, MD
15. Selected as supported participant in Workshop on Supply Chain Management, May 12 – 13, 2000, NSF and Northwestern University. Chicago, IL