LIN Bo

Assistant Professor

Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Management

Education

  • PhD in Operations Research, University of Toronto
  • MASc in Operations Research, University of Waterloo
  • BEng in Construction Management, Tsinghua University

 Research Interests

  • AI for Sustainable Cities
  • Human-AI Collaboration
  • Transportation and Logistics
  • Stochastic, Robust, and Inverse Optimization
  • Learning-augmented Optimization

Selected Publications

  • Conformal Inverse Optimization for Adherence-aware Prescriptive Analytics (with Tim Chan and Erick Delage). Operations Research (Forthcoming).
  • Machine Learning-Augmented Optimization of Large Bilevel and Two-stage Stochastic Programs: Application to Cycling Network Design (with Tim Chan and Shoshanna Saxe). Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2025.
  • Analytics for Better Urban Cycling: A Multi-year Collaboration with the City of Toronto (with Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, Shoshanna Saxe, and Tim Chan). INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics (Forthcoming).

Selected Research Awards

  • Winner, INFORMS George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award
  • Finalist, INFORMS Daniel H. Wagner Prize
  • Winner, INFORMS Innovative Applications in Analytics Award
  • Winner, CORS Practice Prize
  • Winner, INFORMS Transportation Science & Logistics Best Student Paper Award
  • Finalist, INFORMS Data Mining Best Theoretical Paper
  • Finalist, INFORMS Service Science Best Cluster Paper