{"id":98,"date":"2024-03-11T20:25:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T20:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/ise\/?page_id=98"},"modified":"2025-07-25T10:22:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T14:22:54","slug":"xueping-li","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/ise\/faculty\/xueping-li\/","title":{"rendered":"Xueping Li"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"profilePageTitle\">Dan Doulet Faculty Fellow and Professor<\/p>\n<p><!-- Right Column --><\/p>\n<div class=\"one-third column pull-right\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full profileImage wp-image-356\" src=\"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/ise\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/04\/xueping-li-1.jpg\" alt=\"Xueping Li\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"profilePageCard\">\n<h3 class=\"quietHeading\">Contact Information<\/h3>\n<p>522 John D. Tickle Engineering Building,<br \/>\n817 Neyland Drive,<br \/>\nKnoxville, TN 37996-2315<\/p>\n<p><b>Phone<\/b><br \/>\n865-974-7648<\/p>\n<p><b>Email<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:xli27@utk.edu\">xli27@utk.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/xli.tennessee.edu\/\">Personal Website<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"quietHeading\">Research Areas<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Complex Systems Modeling, Simulation and Optimization<\/li>\n<li>Health Information Technology &amp; Mobile Health<\/li>\n<li>Health Care Systems Engineering<\/li>\n<li>Digital Twins and\u00a0Cyber-Physical Systems<\/li>\n<li>Supply Chain Engineering &amp; Logistics<\/li>\n<li>Quality of Service of Computer and Network Systems and Information Systems Assurance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- Left Column --><\/p>\n<div class=\"two-thirds column \">\n<p><!-- Biography --><\/p>\n<h2>Biography<\/h2>\n<p>Xueping Li is a Professor and Dan Doulet Faculty Fellow in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Co-Director of the Health Innovation Technology and Simulation (HITS) Lab, and the Director of the Ideation Laboratory (iLab) at the University of Tennessee &#8211; Knoxville. His research areas include complex system modeling, simulation, and optimization, with broad applications in supply chain logistics, healthcare, and energy systems.<\/p>\n<p>Li\u2019s research has been sponsored by federal agencies, including NSF, NIH, DOE, and HRSA, as well as a variety of industry partners. He holds 9 creation disclosures with the University of Tennessee Research Foundation. He is an IISE Follower, a member of IEEE and INFORMS, and the former President of the Modeling of Simulation Division of IISE (2019-2020). Li is a member of the UT faculty senate (2020-2023) and a UT One Health Scholar.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Education --><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"quietHeading\">Education<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>PhD, Industrial Engineering, Arizona State University<\/li>\n<li>MS, Computer Science, Nankai University<\/li>\n<li>BS, Automatic Control &amp; Computer Science, Nankai University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"quietHeading\">Courses Taught<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Simulation<\/li>\n<li>Information System Analysis and Design<\/li>\n<li>Design Project<\/li>\n<li>Advanced Applications of Systems Modeling and Simulation<\/li>\n<li>Healthcare Systems Engineering<\/li>\n<li>Optimization via Simulation<\/li>\n<li>Advanced Information &amp; Systems Analysis and Design<\/li>\n<li>Process Improvement Through Planned Experimentation<\/li>\n<li>Senior Problems Analysis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- Professional Service --><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"quietHeading\">Professional Service<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>President, Modeling and Simulation (M&amp;S) Division, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering (2019-2020)<\/li>\n<li>Sponsorship Chair, Winter Simulation Conference (2019)<\/li>\n<li>Faculty Advisor, Alpha Pi Mu Honor Society<\/li>\n<li>Faculty Advisor, SASE (Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers)<\/li>\n<li>Founding Board Director,\u00a0Modeling and Simulation (M&amp;S) Division, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering (2016-2017)<\/li>\n<li>Modeling and Simulation (M&amp;S) Track Chair (2017, 2015), Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering Annual Conference &amp; Expo<\/li>\n<li>Program Committee, Supply Chain Logistics Track, Winter Simulation Conference (2016-present)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- Awards &amp; Recognitions --><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"quietHeading\">Awards &amp; Recognitions<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Chancellor\u2019s Research and Creative Achievement Award, UTK, 2023<\/li>\n<li>Fellow, IISE, 2023<\/li>\n<li>Harvey J. Greenberg Research Award, &#8220;A Machine Learning-Enabled Partially Observable Markov Decision Process Framework for Early Sepsis Prediction&#8221;, INFORMS Computing Society, 2022<\/li>\n<li>Dan Doulet Faculty Fellow, (2021)<\/li>\n<li>Fellow, Center for Transportation Research, UT, 2018<\/li>\n<li>Best Paper Award, Supply Chain Logistics Track, Industrial &amp; Systems Engineering Research Conference (IISE 2018)<\/li>\n<li>1<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0Place, IISE DAIS Mobile App Competition, \u201c<em>Speak For Myself<\/em>\u201d App, (IISE 2018)<\/li>\n<li>Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Engineering, UT, 2016<\/li>\n<li>Best Paper Award, Modeling &amp; Simulation Track, Industrial &amp; Systems Engineering Research Conference (ISERC 2015)<\/li>\n<li>Translational Research Award, COE, University of Tennessee, 2013<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><!-- Research Publications --><\/p>\n<h2>Research Publications<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=VNdOMvoAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\">Google Scholar<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1990-0159\">ORCID<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Doulet Faculty Fellow and Professor Contact Information 522 John D. 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