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Dr. Wenquan Dong

  • Assistant Professor - Ingram School of Engineering

Education

Doctorate Degree

PhD in Industrial Engineering

University of Tennessee Knoxville, 2021

  • 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.
  • Dong, Wenquan (Principal). Evaluation of the Food Loss and Waste Reduction, Recovery, and Recycling Technologies and Practices, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Federal, $209603. (Submitted: December 11, 2023, Funded: December 20, 2023 - September 30, 2028). 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.
  • Hosseini, H., Chowdhury, R., Dong, W., & Bhuiyan, T. (n.d.). Data-driven optimization for drone-truck delivery network design under stochastic demand and semi-open queuing network. Expert Systems with Applications, 334. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2026.134577
  • Rahman, M. A., Fernandez Gil, A., & Dong, W. (2025). Solution methods of multi-depot multi-product vehicle routing problem with time windows.
  • Fernandez Gil, A., & Dong, W. (2025). 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
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  1. Other

    Mathematics

  2. Member

    MMIE PhD Admission Committee

  3. Editor

    Cleaner and Circular Bioeconomy

  4. Member

    MS Eng Admission Committee