SHRUTIVANDANA SHARMA

1. PI, MOE AcRF Tier-2 Grant, Ministry of Education, Singapore: Congestion Control in Tiered Healthcare Systems with Referrals [S$484,080] Nov 2020 – Oct 2023.

2. PI, SUTD-MIT International Design Centre (IDC) Grant: Incentive mechanisms for patient routing to control crowding in emergency departments [S$549,960] May 2015 – Feb 2019.

3. PI, CGH-SUTD HealthTech Innovation Fund Grant: Appointment scheduling in specialist outpatient clinics [S$100,000] Aug 2014 – Feb 2016.

4. Co-PI, MOE AcRF Tier-2 Grant: Peer-to-peer sharing economy with application to shared mobility [S$564,060] Dec 2017 – Nov 2020.

1. Nonurgent patients’ preferences for emergency department versus general practitioner and effects of incentives: A discrete choice experiment, with Y. Su, S. O. Van Dyk, W. L. Chow, H. C. Oh and L. Tiah, to appear in Medical Decision Making: Policy & Practice, DOI: 10.1177/23814683211027552.

2. Inventory management under storage and order restrictions, with H. Abouee-Mehrizi and Giorgio Sartor, Production and Operations Management, vol. 29, No. 1, January 2020.

3. Optimal joint replenishment and transshipment policies in a multi-period inventory system with lost sales, with H. Abouee-Mehrizi and O. Berman, Operations Research, vol. 63, Issue 2, March 2015.

4. [Book Chapter] Power allocation and spectrum sharing in wireless networks: An implementation theory approach, with A. Kakhbod, A. Nayyar and D. Teneketzis, in T. Alpcan, H. Boche, M. Honig, & H. Poor (Eds.), Mechanisms and games for dynamic spectrum allocation, Cambridge University Press, 2013.

5. Local public good provisioning in networks: A Nash implementation mechanism, with D. Teneketzis, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication, vol. 30, no. 11, December 2012.

6. A game-theoretic approach to decentralized optimal power allocation for cellular networks, with D. Teneketzis, Telecommunication Systems, vol. 47, June 2011.

7. Decentralized allocation of CPU computation power for web applications, with A. Tantawi, M. Spreitzer and M. Steinder, Performance Evaluation, vol. 67, issue 11, November 2010.

8. An externalities-based decentralized optimal power allocation algorithm for wireless network, with D. Teneketzis, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 17, no. 6, December 2009.

9. Multicarrier on-off keying for fast frequency hopping multiple access systems in Rayleigh fading channels, with G. Yadav and A. K. Chaturvedi, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 6, no. 3, March 2007.

Conference Articles

1. Exploration of factors influencing choice of health care provider for non-emergency conditions, with H. S. R. Ong, W. L. Chow, C. M. A. Oei, H. C. Oh, L. Tiah, C. Courcoubetis, W. Q. Yow, B. Das, Z. M. T. Lim and M. K. Gupta, 13th Singapore Public Health and Occupational Medicine Conference, Singapore, October 2018.

• Received 3rd prize for the poster presented at the conference.

2. Local public good provision in networks: A Nash implementation mechanism, with D. Teneketzis, in Game Theory for Networks, Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol. 75, 2012.

3. A game-theoretic approach to decentralized optimal power allocation for cellular networks, with D. Teneketzis, Proceedings of GameComm 2008, Athens, Greece.

4. An externality-based decentralized optimal power allocation scheme for wireless mesh networks, with D. Teneketzis, Proceedings of IEEE SECON 2007, San Diego, U.S.A.

1. Reducing nonurgent visits and emergency department congestion: Perception-improvement and pricing, with Y. Xu., M. Gupta and C. Courcoubetis.

2. Understanding patients’ health seeking behaviour for non-emergency conditions: A qualitative study, with R. Ong, V. Koh, W. L. Chow, H. C. Oh, L. Tiah, Y. W. Quin and Y. C. H. Jason, under revision for Singapore Medical Journal.

Ph.D. students

1. Yufeng Zhang [Jul 19 - present]

2. Yuliu Su [Mar 17 - Feb 20] Project title: Understanding nonurgent patient preferences for emergency department versus general practitioner: A discrete choice experiment.

Postdoctoral researchers

1. Rakesh Nandi [May 21 - present]

2. Gopinath Panda [Jan 18 - Aug 19] - Now Postdoctoral fellow at University of Central Florida.

3. Manu Kumar Gupta [Dec 15 - Jul 17] - Now Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee.

4. Adam Oei [Sep 15 - Sep 16] - Now Assistant Director, National Council of Social Service (NCSS), Singapore.

Research assistants

1. Ravi Kumar [Sep 17 - May 19] - Now Ph.D. candidate in Mathematics at Paris Sorbonne Nord.

2. Xiyuan Zhao [Dec 17 - Aug 18] - Now pursuing Masters in Finance at New York University.

3. Haoyu Bai [Dec 17 - Jun 18] - Afterward pursued Masters in Financial Engineering at Nanyang Technological University.

4. Liaw Suxin [Dec 17 - Feb 18]

5. Tan Wei Feng [Nov 17 - Feb 18]

6. Lim Zhao Ming [Jun 15 - Nov 16] - Now Ph.D. candidate in Psychology at National University of Singapore.

7. Brenice Chua [Oct 16 - Dec 16]

Undergraduate students trained under Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (UROP)

1. Gan Hui Ting [Sep 20 - Dec 20]

Topic: Reducing inappropriate attendances in hospital emergency departments.

2. Yiqiang Jiao [Sep 15 - Aug 16]

Topic: No-show prediction and simulation of appointment scheduling policies for specialist clinics of CGH.

3. Evelyn Ng Mei Bao [Sep 15 - Dec 15]

Topic: Capacity utilization analysis for specialist clinics of CGH.

4. Goh Chian Yee [Jan 15 - Apr 15]

Topic: Demand analysis for specialist clinics of CGH.

5. Bingnan Lu [May 14 - Aug 14]

Topic: Demand analysis for specialist clinics of CGH.