Research Interests
Applications: Healthcare Management and Policy, Service Operations
Methodologies: Empirical Econometrics, Applied Machine Learning
Published Papers
1. Zhong, Huaiyang, Guihua Wang, and Tinglong Dai. 2025. “Wheels on the Bus: Impact of Vaccine Rollouts on Demand for Public Transportation.” Production and Operations Management. Forthcoming. [link]
2. Pourghannad, Behrooz, and Guihua Wang. 2025. “Matching Surgeons with Patients: Heterogeneous Effects of Surgical Volume on Surgery Duration.” Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. Forthcoming. [link].
3. Wang, Guihua, Jun Li, and Wallace J. Hopp. 2023. “Personalized Health Care Outcome Analysis of Cardiovascular Surgical Procedures.” Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 25(4): 1567-1584. [link]
Winner, INFORMS Health Applications Society Student Paper Competition, 2017
Second Place, INFORMS Service Science Best Cluster Paper Award, 2017
Finalist, INFORMS MSOM Student Paper Competition, 2017
Selected for MSOM Healthcare Operations Management Special Interest Group (SIG) Conference, 2017
4. Zhang, Minmin, Guihua Wang, Jun Li, Wallace J. Hopp, and David D. Lee. 2023. “Pausing Transplants in the Face of a Global Pandemic: Patient Survival Implications.” Production and Operations Management 32(5): 1380-1396. [link]
Media Attention: UTD News Center
6. Wang, Guihua, Ronghuo Zheng, and Tinglong Dai. 2022. “Does Transportation Mean Transplantation? Impact of New Airline Routes on Sharing of Cadaveric Kidneys.” Management Science 68(5): 3660-3679. [link]
Finalist, MSOM Service Management SIG Best Paper Award, 2022
Runner-up, Financial Times Responsible Business Education Award, 2021
Featured in Nobel laureate Al Roth's Market Design blog
Media Attention: Associated Press, Austin' NPR Station - KUT, Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star, Go Dan River, Hickory Daily Record, Houston Chronicle, INFORMS Newsroom, JSOM Management Magazine, KULR 8, Lynchburg News and Advance, McDowell News, Medium, Montana Standard, National Interest, North Platte, Opelika-Auburn News, Patch, Public Radio International, Quad-Cities Online, Roanoke Times, Science Daily, Simply Flying, Statesville Record & Landmark, Texas McCombs, The Conversation, UTD News Center, Yahoo! News
7. Wang, Guihua, Jun Li, and Wallace J. Hopp. 2022. “An Instrumental Variable Forest Approach for Detecting Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Observational Studies.” Management Science 68(5): 3399-3418. [link]
Finalist, INFORMS Health Applications Society Pierskalla Best Paper Award, 2022
Finalist, INFORMS Service Section Student Paper Competition, 2018
8. Wang, Guihua. 2022. “The Effect of Medicaid Expansion on Wait Time in the Emergency Department.” Management Science 68(9): 6355-7064. [link]
Interviewed by the NPR station in Charlotte, WFAE
9. Wang, Guihua. 2022. “Stay at Home to Stay Safe: Effectiveness of Stay‐at‐Home Orders in Containing the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Production and Operations Management 31(5): 2289-2305. [link]
Media Attention: National Review
10. Wang, Guihua. 2022. “Using Mobile Device Data to Understand the Effect of Stay-at-Home Orders on Residents’ Mobility.” Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 24(6): 2797-3306.
Media Attention: UTD News Center
11. Wang, Guihua, Jun Li, Wallace J. Hopp, Franco L. Fazzalari, and Steven F. Bolling. 2019. “Using Patient-Specific Quality Information to Unlock Hidden Health Care Capabilities.” Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 21(3): 582-610. [link]
Finalist, INFORMS MSOM Student Paper Competition, 2016
Finalist, INFORMS Service Section Student Paper Competition, 2016
12. Zayas-Caban, Gabriel, Stefanus Jasin, and Guihua Wang. 2019. “An Asymptotically Optimal Heuristic for General Nonstationary Finite-Horizon Restless Multi-Armed, Multi-Action Bandits.” Advances in Applied Probability 51(3): 745-772. [link]
13. Hopp, Wallace J., Jun Li, and Guihua Wang. 2018. “Big Data and the Precision Medicine Revolution.” Production and Operations Management 27(8): 1647-1664. [link]
14. Wang, Guihua, Yuanguang Zhong, Chung-Piaw Teo, and Qizhang Liu. 2015. “Flow-Based Accessibility Measurement: The Place Rank Approach.” Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies 56: 335-345. [link]
Working Papers
1. Zhang, Minmin, Guihua Wang, Wallace J. Hopp, and Michael R. Mathis. 2024. “A Multi-Treatment Forest Approach for Analyzing the Heterogeneous Effects of Team Familiarity.” Major Revision.
Winner, INFORMS Health Applications Society Student Paper Competition, 2023
Runner-up, POMS College of Healthcare Operations Management Best Paper Award, 2023
Runner-up, POMS College of Service Operations Management Best Student Paper Award, 2023
Finalist, INFORMS Service Science Best Student Paper Award Competition, 2023
Finalist, POMS College of Operational Excellence Junior Scholar Best Paper Competition, 2023
Media Attention: UTD News Center
2. Wang, Guihua, Minmin Zhang, and Tinglong Dai. 2024. “The Spillover Effect of Suspending Non-essential Surgery: Evidence from Kidney Transplantation.” [link] Major Revision.
Selected for MSOM Healthcare Operations Management Special Interest Group (SIG) Conference, 2023
3. Wang, Guihua, Wen Zhang. 2024. “A Forest Approach for Analyzing the Heterogeneous and Nonlinear Effects of Sellers’ Response Time.” [link] Major Revision.
Finalist, INFORMS Service Science Best Cluster Paper Award Competition, 2023
4. Kim, TI, Shujing Sun, and Guihua Wang. 2023. “Does Telemedicine Reduce Prescription Error? Evidence from Antibiotic Prescriptions for Urinary Tract Infection.” Major Revision.
Winner, Conference on Health IT and Analytics (CHITA) Best Paper Competition, 2023
Media Attention: UTD News Center
5. Liu, Jiayi, Guihua Wang, Jun Li, Wallace Hopp. 2024. "The Effect of Competition on Operational Efficiency: Evidence from Kidney Transplantation." [link] Major Revision.
6. Sun, Shujing, and Guihua Wang. 2023. “Does Telehealth Reduce Rural-Urban Care-Access Disparities? Evidence from COVID-19 Telehealth Expansion." [link]
Selected for Wharton Empirical Workshop in Operations Management, 2022
7. Zhang, Minmin, Guihua Wang. 2023. “A Forest Approach for Analyzing Heterogeneous Transitions: Implications on Organ Transplant.”
8. Zhang, Wen, Guihua Wang, and Nancy Wang. 2023. “Does Offering Multiple Shipping Options Increase the Final Selling Price? Evidence from eBay Online Bargaining.”
Work-in-Progress
1. The Effect of Must-Access Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs on Patient Volume and Outcomes, 2023.
2. A Difference-in-Differences Forest Approach for Analyzing the Heterogeneous Effects of Medicaid Expansion, 2023.
3. A LASSO-Forest Approach for Analyzing Organ Transplant Decisions, 2023.
5. Analyzing Heterogeneous Effects of the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program, 2023.
Practitioner-Focused Papers
1. Wang, Guihua, Jun Li, Wallace J. Hopp, Frank L. Fazzalari, Donald S. Likosky, and Steven F. Bolling. 2017. “Cost-Effectiveness of Referring Patients to Centers of Excellence for Mitral Valve Surgery.” [link]
Media Attention: National Affair (2016), Crain’s Detroit (2015), Medical Xpress (2015), Michigan News (2015)
2. Hopp, Wallace J., Jun Li, Soroush Saghafian, and Guihua Wang. 2021. “Employee Health Plans Powered by Analytics.” Management and Business Review 1(3): 12-19. [link]
3. Brescia, Alexander A., Michael J. Paulsen, Tessa M.F. Watt, Liza M. Rosenbloom, Alexander M. Wisniewski, Jun Li, Guihua Wang, Donald S. Likosky, Wallace J. Hopp, and Steven F. Bolling. 2021. “Economic Analysis and Long-Term Follow-up of Distant Referral for Degenerative Mitral Valve Repair.” The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 111(2): 479-486. [link]
4. Lee, David D., Jun Li, Guihua Wang, Kristopher P. Croome, Justin M. Burns, Dana K. Perry, Justin H. Nguyen, Wallace J. Hopp, and C. Burcin Taner. 2017. “Looking Inward: The Impact of Operative Time on Graft Survival after Liver Transplantation.” Surgery 162(4): 937-949. [link]
5. Paulsen, Michael J., Frank L. Fazzalari, Guihua Wang, Jun Li, Donald S. Likosky, Marguerite Krajacic, Wallace J. Hopp, and Steven F. Bolling. 2015. “An Economic Analysis of Distant Referral Surgery for Mitral Valve Disease.” Proceedings – Society of Thoracic Surgeons Meeting, San Diego, California, Jan 25-27, 2015.
6. Wang, Guihua. 2014. “Service Parts Logistics Network Model Selection for Different Industries in Asia.” International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management 18(4): 572-588. [link]