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.

Qian Cheng, jointly advising with Nilay Tanik Argon and Yufeng Liu since Fall 2019.

Sumit Kumar Kar, jointly advising with Nilay Tanik Argon and Shankar Bhamidi since Fall 2019.

Nikolai Lipscomb, jointly advising with Vidyadhar G. Kulkarni since Fall 2019.

Peter Lin, jointly advising with Nilay Tanik Argon and Yufeng Liu since Fall 2020.

Morgan Smith, jointly advising with Adam Mersereau since Fall 2021.