Qiushi Chen (陈秋实), PhD
Qiushi Chen (陈秋实), PhD
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Korb Early Career Professor in Industrial Engineering
Associate Professor
Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University
Office: 302 Leonhard, University Park, PA
Email: q.chen [at] psu [dot] edu
About Me
I am a Korb Early Career Professor in Industrial Engineering and Associate Professor in the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Penn State. Prior to joining Penn State, l was a postdoc research fellow at Massachusetts General Hospital Insitute for Technology Assessment (MGH-ITA) and Harvard Medical School, working with my mentor Dr. Jagpreet Chhatwal. I received my PhD degree in Operations Research from the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology in 2016 (with my PhD advisor Dr. Turgay Ayer) , and my bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2010.
Research Interests
My research has primarily focused on analytics and decision-making modeling in healthcare. I am interested in using mathematical modeling and operations research methods, including stochastic dynamic modeling and simulation, integrated with real-world healthcare data, to inform clinical decision and policy makings in broad healthcare settings. I really enjoy working (and chatting) with health practitioners, health policymakers, and researchers from other healthcare disciplines such as clinical science, public health, health economics, and social sciences, and seeing different views on healthcare issues from them. I am currently working with several multidisciplinary research projects, in which we are trying to utilize analytics and modeling tools to tackle the challenges in the management of chronic diseases, behavioral and mental health, substance use, and epidemic prevention and control.
News
8/7/2025 [New Paper]: Our new paper "Fair allocation strategies for opioid settlements" is published online in Health Care Management Science today! Huge thanks to my awesome colleague Dr. Paul Griffin and IME Graduate Dr. Rob Newton on this excellent work!
5/6/2025 [Comp Exam]: Congratulations to Yuqing Chen on passing the comprehensive exam! Now heading to the next stage of PhD study!
2/12/2025 [New Paper]: Congratulations to Yifang Yan on his new (and the first!) paper "Characterizing patients at higher cardiovascular risk for prescribed stimulants: learning from health records data with predictive analytics and data mining techniques" accepted in Computers in Biology and Medicine! It will be the first of many to come!
12/10/2024 [Comp Exam]: Congratulations to Yifang Yan on passing the comprehensive exam! Now heading to the next stage of PhD study!
12/9/2024 [New Paper]: Congrats to Zixuan Feng and the team on the paper "A Spatio-temporal Cluster-aware Supervised Learning Framework for Predicting County-level Drug Overdose Deaths" accepted in AAAI 2025 Artificial Intelligence for Social Impact Track!
12/5/2024 [Comp Exam]: Congratulations to Zixuan Feng on passing the comprehensive exam! Now heading to the next stage of PhD study!
9/1/2024 [New Job]: Huge congratulations to Dr. Yu-Hsin Chen on joining the Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM) at National Tsing Hua University as an assistant professor!! Enjoy the next (and more fun) stage of your academic career!
8/9/2024 [New Paper]: Congrats to Duk Hee Ka on the new paper "Disparities in Availability of New Cancer Drugs Worldwide: 1990-2022" accepted in the BMJ Global Health! Great work!
7/30/2024 [Abstracts and Finalists]: Congratulations to Yifang Yan and Zixuan Feng on their abstracts accepted for the SMDM 46th Annual Meeting, which are also selected as the finalists for the Lee B. Lusted Student Prize Competition!!
7/26/2024 [New Paper]: Congrats to Zixuan Feng on the new paper "Care settings of transient ischemic attack in the United States: A cohort study from the TriNetX health research network" accepted in the Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases!
6/11/2024 [Defense]: Congratulations to Yu-Hsin Chen on defending her PhD dissertation! Excellent work and presentation!
4/29/2024 [New Paper]: Congrats to the team on the new paper "Cost-effectiveness of population-based screening for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in China: a simulation modeling study" published in The Lancet Regional Health: Western Pacific and was selected as the featured article on the cover of the May's Issue of the journal!
2/16/2024 [Defense]: Congratulations to Siyi Huang on defending her PhD thesis! Excellent work and presentation!
10/25/2023 [Award]: Congrats to Zixuan Feng on winning the Stephen Pauker Award for Outstanding Presentation in Quantitative Methods and Theoretical Developments of the Lee B. Lusted Student Prize Competition in the 45th SMDM Annual North American Meeting!
9/14/2023 [New Grant]: Congrats to the team on the new four-year project "D-ISN/Collaborative Research: Early Warning Systems for Emerging Epidemics of Illicit Substances" awarded by the National Science Foundation!
9/12/2023 [Abstract Acceptance]: Congrats to the team (Yu-Hsin Chen, Zixuan Feng, Duk Hee Ka, and Yiwen Fan) on 5 accepted abstracts for presentation at the 45th SMDM Annual Meeting!
6/16/2023 [Press]: Our new paper, "Delay from Screening to Diagnosis in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Results from a Large National Health Research Network" published in the Journal of Pediatrics, gets featured in the Spectrum News: Average autism diagnosis delayed by more than two years.
4/26/2023 [Award]: Congrats to Andrew Chung for winning The Outstanding Senior Award at Penn State IME! This is a great achievement and BIG congrats, Andrew!
4/14/2023 [Award]: Congrats to Andrew Chung for winning The Jackie Livella/IISE Award to the IE Department this year!
4/10/2023 [Presentation]: Andrew Chung will present his undergraduate honor's thesis research work, "How the COVID 19 Pandemic Impacted Breast Cancer Screening in the United States: Results from Real World Health Records Data," in 2023 Undergraduate Exhibition! [Virtual at here] [In-Person at 11am-1pm on 4/12 @ Alumni Hall, HUB, University Park Campus]
2/16/2023 [Award]: Congrats to our team of three IE undergraduate students Yiyang Wang, Andrew Chung, and Diory Cheng on winning 2nd Prize of the 9th Annual IISE-SHS Student Simulation Competition! [LinkedIn post][Twitter]
10/26/2022 [Award]: Congrats to Yu-Hsin Chen on winning the Bruce Schackman Award for Outstanding Presentation in Health Services, Outcomes, and Policy Research of the Lee B. Lusted Student Prize Competition in the 44th SMDM Annual North American Meeting!
8/19/2022 [New Paper]: Congrats to the team on the new paper "Predicting Diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder Using Health Claims Data in Young Children" accepted by BMJ Health and Care Informatics!
8/4/2022 [Abstract Acceptance]: Congratulations to Yu-Hsin Chen's accepted abstract for presentation at the 44th SMDM Annual Meeting
7/16/2022 [New Grant]: Congrats to the team (co-led with Dr. Whitney Guthrie from CHOP) on the new R21 project "Improving Universal Screening and Modeling the Effects on Referral and Diagnosis for Autism Spectrum Disorder" supported by the National Institute of Mental Health!
2/23/2022 [Abstract Acceptance]: Congrats to the team's abstract about the analysis of autism diagnosis delay accepted as an oral presentation for the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) 2022 Meeting!
12/6/2021 [Abstract Acceptance]: Congratulations to Zixuan Feng's accepted abstract and presenting at Penn State 7th Annual Penn State Addiction Symposium Student/Trainee Data Blitz!
11/12/2021 [New Member]: Welcome Yifang Yan to join our group in Spring 2022!
11/1/2021 [Award]: Congratulations to Yu-Hsin Chen on winning the First Place of the 2021 ICDS Fall Symposium’s Poster Competition! [PSU News]
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