A SDSC research team consisting our faculty member Professor Minghua CHEN, PhD student Mr. Junyan SU, and Research Associate Mr. Qiulin LIN, have won the only Best Paper Award at the 14th ACM e-Energy, Orlando, Florida, June 20 - 23, 2023.

In the work, the SDSC team develops a path-opening approach to minimize carbon footprint in timely transportation of electric heavy-duty truck operation, which is essential for sustainable trucking but is challenging due to its non-convexity, deadline and battery constraints, and combinatorial nature. Their developed efficient solution comes with strong performance guarantee and reduces up to 28% carbon footprint as compared to baseline alternatives, in extensive simulations based on real-world traces over a national highway system. They expects the novel approach to find applications beyond the problem studied in this paper.

For more information about the award, please visit https://energy.acm.org/conferences/eenergy/2023/program.php.