Yanfeng Ouyang

Dissertation: Same Properties of Decentralized Supply Chains

Advisor: Carlos Daganzo

PhD Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 2005

MS Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley, 2005

MS Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Washington, 2001

BEng Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2000

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Present 

• Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Member of the Board of Directors 

Yanfeng Ouyang holds a B.Eng. in civil engineering (summa cum laude, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 2000), M.S. in civil engineering (University of Washington, 2001), M.S. in industrial engineering and operations research (University of California at Berkeley, 2005), and Ph.D. in civil engineering (University of California at Berkeley, 2005). He has been on the faculty of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) since August 2005. At UIUC, he currently serves as the Associate Director of the Illinois Center for Transportation, and also holds courtesy appointments in the Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE), the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), and the Computational Science and Engineering Program

He currently serves (or formerly served) as a Department Editor of IISE Transactions on Supply Chains and Logistics, an Area Editor of Networks and Spatial Economics, an Associate Editor of Transportation Science, an Associate Editor of Transportation Research Part C, an Associate Editor of Transportmetrica B: Transport Dynamics, an Editorial Board Editor and a Guest Co-Editor of Transportation Research Part B (Special Issue on “Optimization of Urban Transportation Service Network”), and an editorial advisory board member and Guest Co-Editor of Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems (Special issue on “Celebrating 50 Years of Traffic Flow Theory”). He also provides review/editorial services to over 60 academic journals, over 15 international conferences, and a number of state, regional, national, and international funding agencies.

He is an active member of professional societies such as the Transportation Research Board (TRB), the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Science (INFORMS), and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). He is a member of TRB’s Network Modeling Committee (ADB30) and Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics Committee (AHB45), Chair of ADB30’s paper editorial board, former Chair of TRB’s Subcommittee on Transit, Freight and Logistics (ADB30(1)), former Chair of the INFORMS Freight Transportation and Logistics Special Interest Group (part of the Transportation Science and Logistics Society), former treasurer of the INFORMS Railway Applications Section, Vice Chair of the ASCE Intermodal & Logistics Committee, and Secretary of the ASCE Transportation Safety Committee. He is also a member of the Illinois State Freight Advisory Council (ISFAC) and former Co-Leader of its Subcommittee on Safety, Security & Environment