Nan Kong Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Joint Appointment with Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering Address Purdue University Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering 315 N. Grant Street West Lafayette, IN 47907-2023 Office: MJIS 3082 Phone: +1 765 496 2467 E-mail: nkong@purdue.edu

Degrees BS, Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 1999 MEng, Operations Research, Cornell University, 2000 PhD, Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 2006 Areas of Interest Operations Research Production Systems Research Interests Stochastic integer programming/Markov decision processes/global optimization under uncertainty System design, resource allocation, workforce scheduling in healthcare and supply chain applications Computational modeling and optimization of disease prevention and control Electronic health record and insurance claims data analysis