Agenda

Interesting Research Groups

• Prof. CAROLINA OSORIO, transportation (website)
• Willcox Research Group (website): dimensionality reduction!
• Prof. Weinan E (website), very interesting research!

• Prof. Christos G. Cassandras and Dr. Wei Xiao: related to my interests in Urban Air Mobility

• Prof. Ilya O. Ryzhov (website) (A book: Optimal Learning)
• Prof. Armann Ingolfsson (website) (Google Scholar), a very solid researcher
• Prof. Guanrong Chen (Scientific Writing) (Chaos)
• Prof. Lei Ying (website): mean field method
• Prof. Lawrence M. Wein (website): a series of works on manufacturing by Prof. David Yao, John Buzacott
• Prof. Steven Lippman, UCLA (website)

OM Researchers on healthcare operations

• Harvard: Lina Song, Soroush Saghafian
• UNC family: Nan Liu, Serhan Ziya, Nilay Argon, Alex Mills, Eric Webb, Yuqian Xu,
• Canada: Yichuan Ding, Marco Bijvank, Cheng Zhu, Opher Baron, Armann Ingolfsson
• Hong Kong: Jin Qi, Yiwen Shen, Huiyin Ouyang, Haipeng Shen, Eric Park,
• Singapore: Joel Goh, Zhichao Zheng, Liang Xu (SMU), Jingui Xie
• Purdue: Pengyi Shi, Nan Kong
• New York: Mor Armony, Galit Yom-Tov, Carri Chan, Jing Dong, Yue Hu, Linda Green
• Medical decision making: Andrew Scheafer,
• Empirical groups: Elisa F. Long, Bob Batt, Nicos Savva, Brad Staats, KC Diwas, Hummy Song, Song-Hee Kim, Anita Carson, Maria Ibanez
• OT: Sergei Savin, Galit Yom-Tov, Avi Mandelbaum, Sarang Deo, Tinglong Dai,
• Gabriel Zayas-Cabán (UW Hospital ED encounters between 1/1/2013 to 27/09/2018)

Ongoing work

1. ED dual-bottlenecks: Bed + Physicians [PDF]
   1. Stochastic modeling (SOQN, Jia and Heragu 2009, Operations Research)
   2. Fluid model (MMFQ, Carmen et al. 2018, EJOR, Chan’s OR paper)
   3. So-what: ED surging plan
   4. The Science Behind Proper Staffing
   5. Building a Smarter Staffing Model
2. Low acuity patients delay high acuity patients [PDF]
3. Patient LWBS in emergency departments [PDF]
   • Doubly-censored data
   • What are the driving factors? Of course, waiting time; but what else? Social injustice? Chaotic environment?
   • From Larson 1087, Skips and Slips: At least three attributes other than queueing delay paly key roles in a customer’s queueing experiene: social justice, queueing environment, and feedback about delays.
   • A discrete choice dynamic programming model [PDF]
   • Structural Estimation of Callers’ Delay Sensitivity in Call Centers [PDF]

Casual Reading

1. An Exploration in the Theory of Optimum Income Taxation [PDF]
2. A Restless Bandit Model for Resource Allocation, Competition, and Reservation [PDF]
3. A Min-Max Solution of an Inventory Problem [PDF]
4. BCMP Analysis, Control, and Evaluation of Mobility-on-Demand Systems: A Queueing-Theoretical Approach [PDF]
5. Mandelbaum Bed Blocking in Hospitals Due to Scarce Capacity in Geriatric Institutions—Cost Minimization via Fluid Models [PDF]
6. Mandelbaum On Fair Routing from Emergency Departments to Hospital Wards: QED Queues with Heterogeneous Servers [PDF]
7. Mandelbaum Minimizing mortality in a mass casualty event: fluid networks in support of modeling and staffing [PDF]
8. Optimal and Learning-Based Control Course Notes [PDF]