On August 10, 2024, at the invitation of the School of Management, Professor Luo Zhixing from Nanjing University delivered an academic report entitled Service-oriented Customer-centric Routing: Data, Prediction and Robust Decision-making in Lecture Hall 403 of Youyi Campus, School of Management. The session was hosted by Professor Li Jiliu of the School of Management and attended by some faculty members and students of the school.

Professor Luo Zhixing first introduced the composition of his research team and the latest research progress. He then shared the ongoing research on urban distribution routing planning, briefly elaborated on its background, and pointed out that the core focus of this issue lies in time. Faced with the uncertainty of delivery time and the problem of personal privacy protection, he decided to adopt a mathematical model combined with multiple characteristic values (such as delivery quantity, couriers’ historical delivery routes, etc.) to fit the delivery time. Furthermore, he constructed a deterministic linear programming model based on this mathematical model and solved it using the Benders algorithm. Finally, he demonstrated the advantages of the applied method through multi-dimensional comparisons.

After the presentation, Professor Li Jiliu gave a brief summary of the session. Professor Luo Zhixing answered the questions raised by the participating teachers and students one by one. The participants expressed their sincere gratitude to Professor Luo Zhixing for his sharing with warm applause, and the report concluded successfully.

Speaker ProfileProfessor Luo Zhixing obtained his Bachelor’s degree from South China University of Technology in 2010 and his Doctoral degree from City University of Hong Kong in 2014. Currently, he is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Management and Engineering, Nanjing University. His main research areas include the design of operations research and optimization algorithms, smart logistics, and smart manufacturing. He has presided over one Youth Project, one General Project, and one Excellent Young Scientists Fund Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He has published more than ten papers in internationally renowned journals such as Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Transportation Science, Transportation Research Part-B: Methodological, and Naval Research Logistics. In 2018, he participated in the Global Operations Research and Optimization Challenge hosted by JD Logistics and won the first prize in the intelligent scheduling competition for urban logistics transportation vehicles. He was selected into the Young Talent Support Program of the China Association for Science and Technology in 2019 and won the Excellent University Cooperation Project Award of Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab in 2020.

Written by/Hu Yapeng Reviewed by/Jia Ming