Published Work (*student co-authors)

1. Miao Bai, Ying Cui, Guangwen Kong, Zhenhuan Zhang*, "No Panic in Pandemic: The Impact of Individual Choice on Public Health Policy", Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, [Link]  [Manuscript].

   • • 1st place, Post-Pandemic Supply Chain and Healthcare Management Conference Best Paper Competition, 2021.

     • 2nd place, POMS College of Humanitarian Operations & Crisis Management (HOCM) Best Paper Award Competition, 2021.

     • Winner, Best Problem-Driven Analytical Research Paper Award, Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) Annual Conference, 2021.

     • Covered by article "Social distancing should stick around'' at The Hill.

2. Dongmin Li*, Miao Bai, Xiaochen Xian, "Data-driven Pathwise Sampling Approaches for Online Anomaly Detection", Technometrics, [Link] [Manuscript]

   • • Finalist, INFORMS Quality, Statistics, and Reliability (QSR) Best Paper Competition, 2021.

3. Miao Bai, Bjorn Berg, Esra Sisikoglu Sir, Mustafa Y. Sir, "Partially-partitioned Templating Strategies for Outpatient Specialty Practices", Production and Operations Management, 32, 301-318 [link]  [Manuscript].

• Finalist, POMS College of Healthcare Operations Management (CHOM) Best Paper Award Competition, 2021.

4. Miao Bai, Robert H. Storer, Gregory L. Tonkay, "Surgery Sequencing Coordination with Recovery Resource Constraints", INFORMS Journal on Computing 34(2):1207-1223  [link]  [Manuscript].

5. Miao Bai, Kimberly R. Gergelis, Mustafa Y. Sir, Thomas J. Whitaker, David M. Routman, Bradley J. Stish, Brian J. Davis, Thomas M. Pisansky, Richard Choo, "Comparing bowel and urinary domains of patient-reported quality of life at the end of and 3 months post radiotherapy between intensity-modulated radiotherapy and proton beam therapy for clinically localized prostate cancer", Cancer Medicine, 2020. PMID: 32931662,  [link]. (Bai and Gergelis contributed equally)

6. Miao Bai, Mustafa Y. Sir, Kalyan S. Pasupathy, "Pattern-based Surgical Capacity Planning", Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Vol 94, 2019. [link]   [Manuscript]

7. Miao Bai, Robert H. Storer, Gregory L. Tonkay, "A Sample Gradient-based Algorithm for Multiple-OR and PACU Surgery Scheduling", IISE Transactions, Vol. 49, Issue 4, pp 367-380, 2017. [link]   [Manuscript]

   • • Winner, Van Hoesen Family Best Publication Award, ISE department, Lehigh University, 2016.

8. H.C. Man, Miao Bai, F.T. Cheng, "Laser Diffusion Nitriding of Ti-6Al-4V for Improving Hardness and Wear Resistance", Applied Surface Science, Vol 258, pp 436-441, 2011 [link] (Senior-year project paper).

Working Papers 

1. Miao Bai#, Shu He#, Xinxin Li, Ayush Sengupta*, "Ride-to-Health: The Impact of Ridesharing on Patients' Emergency Care Access", [Manuscript].

   • • Authors alphabetically ordered, and Bai and He contribute equally 

     • Major revision at Information Systems Research

2. Miao Bai, Nan Liu, Zheng Zhang, "Helping the Captive Audience: Advance Notice of Diagnostic Service for Hospital Inpatients", [Manuscript].

   • • Major revision at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

     • 1st place, INFORMS Service Science Best Cluster Paper Competition, 2023.

3. Miao Bai, George Qi Chen, Cuihong Li, "The Sooner, the Better? Optimal Vaccination Policy with Limited Vaccine Supply'', [Manuscript].

4. Miao Bai, Carlos Cardonha, "Cardinality-Constrained Continuous Knapsack Problem with Concave Piecewise Linear Utilities '', [Manuscript].

5. Kimberly R. Gergelis, Miao Bai, Jiasen Ma, David M. Routman, Bradley J. Stish, Brian J. Davis, Thomas M. Pisansky, Thomas J. Whitaker, Richard Choo, "Long-term patient-reported bowel and urinary quality of life in patients treated with intensity-modulated radiotherapy and intensity-modulated proton therapy for localized prostate cancer" (Gergelis and Bai contributed equally)

6. Dongmin Li*, Miao Bai, Di Wang, Xiaochen Xian, “A Bayesian Jump Model-based Pathwise Sampling Approach for Online Anomaly Detection”.

   • • Finalist, INFORMS Data Mining Society Best Student Paper Competition, 2024 (student co-author: Dongmin Li)

Published Abstract

1. Kimberly R. Gergelis, Miao Bai, Jiasen Ma, David M. Routman, Bradley J. Stish, Brian J. Davis, Thomas M. Pisansky,Thomas J. Whitaker, Richard Choo, "Long-Term Patient-Reported Bowel and Urinary Quality of Life in Patients Treated with Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy and Intensity-Modulated Proton Therapy for Localized Prostate Cancer'', International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics, 2023 117:2, Page e385  [link]

2. Kimberly R. Gergelis, Miao Bai, Thomas J. Whitaker, David M. Routman, Mustafa Y. Sir, Richard Choo, "Acute Patient-reported Toxicities after Proton Therapy or Intensity-modulated Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer", Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2020 38:6 suppl, 305-305, [link] 

Dissertation

1. Miao Bai, "Optimization of Surgery Scheduling in Multiple Operating Rooms with Post Anesthesia Care Unit Capacity Constraints" (2017). Theses and Dissertations,  [link]

   1. • Departmental Nomination for Elizabeth V. Stout Dissertation Award,  Lehigh University, 2017