2024 Purdue Operations Conference August 22-25 | West Lafayette, Indiana

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM

STEW 302

Opening Remark

Mohit Tawarmalani (Associate Dean)

8:30 AM - 9:15 AM

STEW 302

Keynote Speech

Panos Kouvelis ( Washington University in St. Louis )

Title: Overview & insights on integrated supply chain finance (iSCF) research: A supply chain-centric view of working capital, hedging, and risk management

9:30 AM - 10:15 PM

STEW 302

Keynote Speech

Suresh Sethi (University of Texas at Dallas)

Hierarchical and mixed leadership games for dynamic supply chains: Applications to cost learning and co-op advertising

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

STEW 202

Session 1

Jingjing Weng (Temple University)

Advice provision in the pandemic: The impact of information granularity on social protection

Lin Zang (University of Rochester)

The impact of information-granularity and prioritization on patients’ care modality

Catherine Wang (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Extended CNA Training Hours and Its Impact on Nursing Homes

Ling Li (Indiana University)

Failures of health equity: An examination of bias in healthcare treatment

STEW 204

Session 2

Mengzi Amy Guo (University of California, Berkeley)

Last-iterate convergence in no-regret learning: Games with reference effects under Logit demand

Shukai Li (Northwestern University)

LEGO: Optimal online learning under sequential price competition

Hanzhao Wang (Imperial College London)

Transformers as operations manager

STEW 206

Session 3

Tsai-Hsuan Chung (Wharton School)

Optimizing health supply chains with decision-aware learning

Ragıp Gürlek (Emory University)

Emergency department wait time forecasts: Outdoing complex machine learning with parametric models

Shanshan Luo (University of British Columbia)

Mass vaccination scheduling: Trading off infections, throughput, and overtime

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

STEW 202

Session 1

Rachel Chen (UC Davis)

Selling professional products under expertise migration uncertainty

Xuying Zhao (TXA&M)

A model of shoppertainment live streaming

Yuan Guo (George Washington University)

A bilevel view for fluid stockout-based substitution

Annabelle Feng (Purdue)

Cross learning and co-learning with Operational Data Analytics (ODA)

STEW 204

Session 2

Parshan Pakiman (Columbia University)

Dynamic assignment of jobs to workers with learning curves

Binghan Kou (Arizona State University)

Familiarity-based dynamic pricing with hierarchical bayes estimation of consumer choice

Yang Yang (Purdue)

The operational data analytics (ODA) for service speed design

William Haskell (Purdue)

Learning to price supply chain contracts against a learning retailer

STEW 206

Session 3

Ozge Yapar (Indiana University)

Conditional approval and value-based pricing for new health technologies

Emily Zhu (Texas State University)

Designing specialist-response policies in hospital emergency departments

Eojin Han (University of Notre Dame)

Dynamic capacity management for deferred surgeries

Zhan Pang (Purdue)

Public reporting and payment incentives in hospital markets

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

STEW 202

Session 1

Yu Jiang (University of Tennessee)

How do gender and ethnic diversity impact consumer returns?

Yiyao Zhou (University College London)

How do robots affect firms’ innovation performance? Evidence from Spanish manufacturers

Henry Lin (University of California, Irvine)

Empowering or exploiting? The implications of direct market access for improving smallholder farmers' welfare

STEW 204

Session 2

Renjie Cui (University of Zurich)

Research directions in alternative fuel vehicle transitions for commercial fleets

Elif Kuscu (University of Zurich)

Who leads the way? Buyer vs. supplier initiatives in supply chain carbon footprint reduction

Wenjie Tu (University of Zurich)

Promoting circular supply chains under repair heterogeneity

STEW 206

Session 3

Akshit Kumar (Columbia)

Dynamic resource allocation: algorithmic design principles and spectrum of achievable performances

Zhong Zheng (PSU)

Optimal online learning of linear inflation rules under the random yield

Rahul Roy (UNC)

Data-driven dynamic assortment in online platforms: Learning about two sides

8:30 AM - 10:00 AM

RAWL 2058

Session 1

Shilin Yuan (Tsinghua University)

A minibatch-SGD-based learning meta-policy for inventory systems with myopic optimal policy

Minda Zhao (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Policy gradient methods for finite horizon markov decision process and applications in operations models

Minmin Zhang (University of Texas at Dallas)

A multi-treatment forest approach for analyzing the heterogeneous effects of team familiarity

RAWL 2070

Session 2

Kerim U. Kizil (Texas A&M University)

Robotic mobile fulfillment systems: Frameworks for performance analysis

Chengyi Lyu (University of Colorado Boulder)

Customer reward programs for two-sided markets

Chonghuan Wang (MIT)

Data-driven price optimization: From observational study to experimental design

RAWL 2082

Session 3

Farbod Ekbatani (University of Chicago)

Online matching with cancellation costs

Fatemeh Farajzadeh (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

Optimizing sponsored humanitarian parole 

Haoting Zhang (University of California, Berkeley)

Language prompt selection via simulation optimization

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

RAWL 2058

Session 1

Natalie Huang (University of Minnesota)

Fighting plastic pollution: Product ban regulation and voluntary compliance

Owen Wu (Indiana University)

Renewable, flexible, and storage capacities: Friends or foes?

Qiong Wang (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Policy interventions for combating lead pollution in Bangladesh: Model and analysis of a circular supply chain

RAWL 2070

Session 2

Philipp Afèche (University of Toronto)

Effectiveness of supply-side financial incentives in ride-hailing networks with spatial demand imbalance and strategic drivers

Ricky Root-Green (University of Rochester)

Foresee the next line: Customer strategies and information disclosure in tandem queues

Andy Lin (Purdue University)

Optimal control of single-server queues: A wait-time-based approach

RAWL 2082

Session 3

Mili Mehrotra (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Nudging patients towards cost-effective providers: Analysis of an insurer's effort-based and cash reward-based mechanisms

Jonathan Helm (Indiana University)

The role of supply chain in healthcare crises

Qi Wang (Boston University)

The relative indirect effects of technology bias and implicit bias on racial disparity in service delivery and sepsis mortality

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

RAWL 2058

Session 1

Vishrut Rana (Wharton School)

When where watt: Harnessing the value of time and location of electricity generation for renewables

Austin Iglesias Saragih (MIT)

Solving policy and reverse supply chain design using continuous approximation, monotonicity analysis, and contextual optimization

Mohammad Reza Aminian (University of Chicago)

Markovian search with socially aware constraints

Helen Wang (University of Michigan)

30 million canvas grading records reveal widespread sequential bias and system-induced surname initial disparity  

RAWL 2070

Session 2

Feng Zhu (MIT)

Bayesian online multiple testing: A resource allocation approach

Yunlong Wang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, University of Colorado Boulder (Visiting))

New formulations and valid inequalities for the least cost influence problem on social networks

Angshuman Pal (Indiana University)

Enhancing the wisdom of crowds when experts use algorithmic advice

Jiameng Lyu (Tsinghua University)

Learning in lost-sales inventory systems with stochastic lead times and random supplies

RAWL 2082

Session 3

Mengting Chao (University of Maryland)

The driver-aide problem in urban areas

Feihong Hu (University of Texas at Austin)

"Uber" your cooking: The sharing-economy operations of a ghost-kitchen platform

Bahar D Viniche (York University and University of Toronto)

T actical fleet planning in drone enabled deliveries and predicting drone delivery efficiency in urban areas with GNNs

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM

RAWL 2058

Faculty Session 01

Susan Hunter (Purdue)

Properties of two-stage stochastic multi-objective linear programs

Prakirt Raj Jhunjhunwala (Columbia University)

Optimal congestion signaling to customers with heterogeneous patience

Mengshi Lu (Purdue)

Contractor selection in project outsourcing via request-for-quote

RAWL 2070

Student Session 02

Huanwen Shen (Lehigh University)

Wasserstein distributionally robust logistic regression with sparse cardinality constraints

Jie Wang (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Regularization for adversarial robust learning

Jian Wu (Purdue University)

Contextual data-integrated newsvendor solution with operational data analytics (ODA)

RAWL 2082

Student Session 03

Lin Chen (INSEAD)

Transparent or not? Optimal performance feedback in gamified services

Jiannan Xu (University of Maryland)

Crafting freelance success: Unveiling the impact of availability on match quality through conversational analytics

Yuxin Liu (University of Pittsburgh)

Virality of information diffusion on whatsapp

8:00 AM - 9:30 AM

RAWL 2058

Session 1

Mo Liu (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Learning from click transition data: The effectiveness of greedy pricing policy under dynamic product availability

Xiaoyue Gong ( Carnegie Mellon University)

How not to overpackage? -- AI for sustainability in HelloFresh's service supply chain

Jinglong Zhao (Boston University)

A simple approach to causal clustering

RAWL 2070

Session 2

Michael Li (Harvard University)

Balancing optimality and diversity: Enhancing human decision-making through generative curation

Shouqiang Wang (UTD)

Recommender systems under privacy protection

Jiong Sun (Purdue)

Managerial incentives, passive ownership, and channel decentralization

RAWL 2082

Session 3

Yishen Cai (University of Miami)

Assortment Optimization of the GoodRx Model

Mohammad Amin Farzaneh (University of Texas at Dallas)

Leveraging Assortment Similarities for Data-driven Choice Predictions

Yukai Huang (Washington University in St. Louis)

Beyond basic reusability: Joint inventory and online assortment optimization with a network of evolving resources

9:45 AM -10:30 AM

RAWL 1086

Keynote Speech

Huseyin Topaloglu (Cornell University)

Incorporating discrete choice models into operations management models

10:45 AM - 11:30 AM

RAWL 1086

Keynote Speech

Jay Swaminathan (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Responsible operations management

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

RAWL 1086

Closing Remarks

George Shanthikumar/Annabelle Feng