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Ph.D. Students

Nan Liu, Appointment Scheduling in Healthcare, co-advised with Vidyadhar Kulkarni, graduated in 2009, currently an associate professor at the Carroll School of Management, Boston College.

Jianzhe Luo, Queueing Approaches to Appointment System Design, co-advised with Vidyadhar Kulkarni, graduated in 2012, currently a Science Lead at DoorDash.

Alex Mills, Patient Prioritization and Resource Allocation in Mass-Casualty Incidents, co-advised with Nilay Tanik Argon, graduated in 2012, currently an associate professor at the Zicklin School of Business, City University of New York.

Zhankun Sun, Priority Scheduling of Jobs with Unknown Types, co-advised with Nilay Tanik Argon, graduated in 2014, currently an assistant professor at the City University of Hong-Kong Business School.

Huiyin Ouyang, Prioritization in Service Systems with Nonlinear Delay Costs, co-advised with Nilay Tanik Argon, graduated in 2016, currently an assistant professor in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Hong Kong.

Dongqing Yu, Data-Driven Quality of Service Improvements in Hospitals, co-advised with Haipeng Shen, graduated in 2016, currently at JP Morgan & Chase.

Wanyi Chen, A Data-Driven Approach to Operational Improvement in Emergency Departments, co-advised with Nilay Tanik Argon, graduated in 2018, currently a research scientist at MGH Mongan Institute.

Yichen Tu, Queueing Systems with Strategic and Learning Customers, co-advised with Nur Sunar, graduated in 2019, currently a machine learning scientist at PayPal.

Zheqi Zhang, Prioritization and Distribution of Casualties in Disaster Response Management, co-advised with Nilay Tanik Argon, graduated in 2019, currently a senior data scientist at Walmart Global Tech.

Wei Gu, Three Models for Pricing Decisions in Services or under Inventory Considerations, co-advised with Sebastian Heese and Eda Kemahlioglu-Ziya, graduated in 2022, currently at Huawei Cloud, Shanghai, China.

Nikolai Lipscomb, Optimizing Stochastic Models in Health Care: Appointment Scheduling and Disease Testing, co-advised with Vidyadhar G. Kulkarni, graduated in 2023, currently a research staff member at Institute for Defense Analyses.

Qian Cheng, A Data-Driven Approach to Describe, Predict, and Reduce Crowding and Health Disparities in an Emergency Department, co-advised with Nilay Tanik Argon and Yufeng Liu, graduated in 2023, currently a data scientist at United Airlines.

Peter Lin, Disparities in Prioritization and Admission Decisions in Emergency Departments, co-advised with Nilay Tanik Argon, graduated in 2024, currently a postdoc at UNC School of Medicine.

Sumit Kumar Kar, Three Essays on Influence Maximization in Networks, co-advised with Nilay Tanik Argon and Shankar Bhamidi, graduated in 2025, currently a principal biostatistician at Novartis India.

Morgan Wood, Data-Driven Population Tracking and Arrival Forecasting in Service Systems, co-advised with Adam Mersereau, graduated in 2025, currently an assistant professor at North Carolina Wesleyan University.

Dilay Ozkan, jointly advising with Nilay Tanik Argon since Fall 2023.

Lewis Dubrowski, jointly advising with Nilay Tanik Argon and Chudi Zhong since Fall 2024.

Aidan Burchard, jointly advising with Nilay Tanik Argon and Ali Parlakturk since Fall 2024.