Education

• BS, Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 1999
• MEng, Operations Research, Cornell University, 2000
• PhD, Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 2006

Research Interests

• Stochastic optimization, predictive and prescriptive analytics
• Health care operations management
• Advanced health care data analytics
• Biological and public health system modeling and control
• AI for preventative care, social care coordination, and human work augmentation

Awards

• Faculty Mentor, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering Inaugural Future Faculty Fellows (3F) Program, 2024-2025
• Second Place (Final Phase), Phase 1 winner, Phase 2 Winner, Phase 3 second phase winner: Department of Healthcare Services (DHHS)-Healthcare Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), 2022-2023
• Faculty Mentor, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering Inaugural Future Faculty Fellows (3F) Program, 2023-2024
• First Place, Outstanding Innovation in Service Systems Engineering, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) , 2023
• Best Application Paper, IISE, 2022.
• Faculty Mentor, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering Inaugural Future Faculty Fellows (3F) Program, 2022-2023
• Marta E. Gross Fellow, Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering, 2022-2023
• Societal Impact Fellow, Inaugural Purdue Societal Impact Fellows Program, Office of Engagement, Purdue University, 2021
• Faculty Mentor, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering Inaugural Future Faculty Fellows (3F) Program, 2021-2022
• Best Paper Award, Engineering Education Division, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), 2020
• Seed for Success Award, Purdue University, 2019
• First Place, Best Track Paper Award, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineering Annual Conference, 2019
• Fellow, Scholarship of Engagement Fellows Program, Purdue University Office of Engagement, 2017-2018
• Junior Fellow, Purdue Service-Learning Junior Fellow Grant Program, 2016-2017
• Fellow, Honors Engaged Learning in Practice (HELP), Indiana Campus Compact and the Purdue University Honors College, 2015-2016
• Fellow, Air Force Office of Sponsored Research Summer Faculty Fellowship Program at Air Force Research Lab, 2015
• INFORMS Public Sector OR Sector Best Paper Award Honorable Mention Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, 2015
• Top-ranked Oral Presentation, Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM), 2014
• Best Poster Award Runner-up, International Conference on Big Data and Analytics in Healthcare, 2014
• First Place IIE Pritsker PhD Dissertation Award, Institute of Industrial Engineers, 2007
• Young Researcher Roundtable Attendee Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Conference on O.R. Practice, 2006
• Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Dantzig PhD Dissertation Award Honorable Mention, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, 2006