Faculty Profiles

Dr. Wenquan Dong

Dong, Wenquan (Principal), Novoa Ramirez, Clara M (Co-Principal), Mandal, Sujata (Co-Principal). Assisting Food Waste Monitoring and Management in Central Texas Rural Communities, Department of Agriculture, Federal, $163000. (Submitted: January 1, 2024, Funded: October 1, 2024 - December 30, 2025). Grant.
Konur, Dincer, Ekin, Tahir, Dong, Wenquan. University Lecturer Series, Texas State University Faculty Senate, Texas State University, $2000. (Submitted: February 2024, Funded: September 2024 - May 2025). Grant.
Dong, Wenquan. Empowering Sustainability and Equity: Harnessing School Buses for Workforce Transit, Environmentally Responsible Transportation Center for Communities of Concern, University of Missouri – Kansas City, Other, $5000. (Funded: June 1, 2024 - May 31, 2025). Grant.

Rahman, M. A., Fernandez Gil, A., & Dong, W. (n.d.). Solution methods of multi-depot multi-product vehicle routing problem with time windows.
Fernandez Gil, A., & Dong, W. (n.d.). Optimizing Electric Vehicle Routes under Node-Degree Constraints in Battery-Swapping Logistics Networks.
Fernandez Gil, A., Dong, W., & Jin, T. (2025). Queueing Strategic Planning for Electric Aircraft Battery Swap and Mega-charging under Time Constraints. https://doi.org/DOI:10.21872/2025IISE_6032
Khan, S., Menezes De Carvalho, M., Dong, W., & Valles Molina, D. (2026). Conquering the Urban Firefighting Challenge: A Deep Q-Network Approach for Autonomous UAV Navigation. Inventions. https://doi.org/10.3390/inventions11020035
Armstrong, K., Dong, W., Jin, M., Nimbalkar, S., & Cresko, J. (2024). Estimating Energy Consumption and GHG Emissions in the U.S. Food Supply Chain: Informing the Net-Zero Transformation. Npj Science of Food.