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Zhe Liang is a professor in the Department of Management Science in the
School of Economics and Management, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.
He receivedhis BEngfrom the Department of Computer Engineering at the
National University of Singapore in 2001, and his PhD from the Department
of Industrial and Systems Engineering of Rutgers University, Newark, New
Jersey, in 2011. Hisresearch interests are related to the design and imple-
mentation of exact and heuristic algorithms for large-scale combinatorial
optimization problems in supply chain management, transportation, and
telecommunication. He has more than 20 cited publications, ...