Research Ideas

Researchers of interest

• Prof. Nan Liu (website)
• Prof. Armann Ingolfsson (website)
• Prof. Serhan Ziya (website)
• Prof. Lei Ying (website)

Tasks

• Queueing paper: value of information
• Cheng’s paper editing
• OR Letter paper editing
• EJOR paper editing
• Chinook paper

Ongoing

1. FT routing paper: writing, new simulation, conclusion submit by January 2021
2. FT routing modeling paper: proof of results; try different patient classifications and compare their performances (by admit, LOS, chance of FT)
   • Perhanps we can consider a shadow patient, with a focus on CTAS3, or patients in the middle. Refer to two papers in Notability.
3. Medical paper: the impact of ED census on ED decision making
4. ED staffing with PPH: waiting time estimation

Next step

1. ED patient prioritization
   1. Choice model: waiting for room (patient chosen by nurses)
   2. Choice model: initial assessment (patient chosen by physicians)
   3. Non-aligned objectives might lead to inefficiency
2. ED double bottlenecks: Bed + Physicians
   1. Stochastic modeling (SOQN, Jia and Heragu 2009, Operations Research)
   2. Fluid model (MMFQ, Carmen et al. 2018, EJOR)
   3. Perturbation analysis
   4. So-what: ED surging plan
3. ED specialist: stochastic clearing system [PDF]
4. With Lishuai:
   • Drone delivery
   • Data from Cathy Pacific: optimize then predict
5. Clean energy with Xiaowei