Scientific Community Services

Services to Professional Societies:

  • Session Chair, Medical Decision Making and Informatics, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Charlotte, NC, Nov 2011

  • Session Chair, Optimization in Medical Decisions, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Austin, TX, Nov 2010

  • Session Chair, Healthcare Engineering Seminar, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, Oct 2010

  • Session Chair, Computational OR in Chronic Diseases, INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, Oct 2009

  • Session Chair, Healthcare Engineering Seminar, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, Oct 2009


Journal and Conference Referee:

  • 2018: reviewed 1 paper for IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering

  • 2015: reviewed 2 papers for Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine and Production and Operations Management

  • 2013: reviewed 12 abstracts for 35th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) and 17 abstracts for 2014 SMDM Asia-Pacific Conference

  • 2012: reviewed 12 abstracts for 34th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) and 1 paper for Medical Decision Making

  • 2011: reviewed 13 abstracts for 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM), 2 papers for ISPOR-SMDM Joint Modeling Good Research Practices Task Force, and 2 papers for 2012 ACM Special Interest Group on Health Informatics (SIGHIT) International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI 2012)

  • 2010: reviewed 1 paper for Medical Decision Making, and 10 abstracts for 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making

  • 2009: reviewed 1 paper for Medical Decision Making

  • 2008: reviewed 1 paper for IIE transactions


Student Supervision:

  • Supervised 1 Ph.D. candidate as a three-month research intern on schedule optimization and impact on care quality in Philips Research North America, 2015

  • Supervised 4 three-month research interns in Philips Research North America, 2014

    • 2 Ph.D. candidates on workforce optimization and HR planning for healthcare providers

    • 1 Ph.D. candidate on enterprise throughput simulation for hospitals and perioperative patient experience optimization

    • 1 Ph.D. candidate on risk analysis for performance-based lighting services

  • Supervised 1 Masters student on simulation modeling of prostate cancer screening, North Carolina State University, Jul-Aug, 2010

  • Supervised 1 undergraduate student on estimation of prostate cancer probability by logistic regression, North Carolina State University, Jun-Aug, 2009