RESEARCH

Working Papers

1.  Data-Driven Aircraft Assignment to Minimize Delay Propagation, with Vinayak Deshpande and Vidyadhar Kulkarni. Job Market Paper, Second-Round Major Revision at Operations Research, 2023.

2.  Admission Control in Multi-server Systems Under Binary Reward Structure, with Vidyadhar Kulkarni. Accepted at Production and Operations Management, 2023.

3.  Joint Admission and Service Rate Control of an Unobservable Queue, with Vidyadhar Kulkarni. Under review at Production and Operations Management, 2023.

4.  Data-Driven Aircraft Assignment Over Multiple Airports to Minimize Delay Propagation, with Vinayak Deshpande and Vidyadhar Kulkarni. Working paper, preparing for submission to Management Science, 2023.

5.  Mitigating Nurse Shortage via Inter-Hospital Nurse Transfers: A Data-Driven Multi-Stage Distributionally Robust Optimization Approach, with Tianchun Li, Mengshi Lu, and Pengyi Shi. Work in Progress, close to submitting to a top OM journal, 2023.

6.  Fairness-Constrained Workload Nurse-Patient Assignment: Incorporating Heterogeneous Patient Needs, with  Mengshi Lu, and Pengyi Shi, Work in Progress, 2023.

Publication

1. Mao, Zhaofang, Wei Liu, and Bo Feng (2019). "Opaque distribution channels for service providers with asymmetric capacities: Posted-price mechanisms." International Journal of Production Economics 215: 112-120.

2. Feng, Bo, Wei Liu, and Zhaofang Mao (2018). "Use of opaque sales channels in addition to traditional channels by service providers." International Journal of Production Research 56(10): 3369-3383.