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Professor of Operations Management & Business Analytics, Carey Business School, Johns Hopkins University

Tinglong Dai is a Professor of Operations Management and Business Analytics at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. At Johns Hopkins, He is on the leadership team of the university-wide Business of Health Initiative and the executive committee of the Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science.

As a world-renowned expert in healthcare analytics and global supply chains, Dr. Dai has been quoted hundreds of times in the media, including Associated Press, Bloomberg, CNN, Fortune, New York Times, NPR, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post, and has appeared in national and international TV such as CNBC, PBS NewsHour, and Sky News. In 2021, he was named as one of the World's Best 40 Under 40 Business School Professors by Poets & Quants.

His research has been published in leading academic journals, including Management Science, M&SOM, Marketing Science, and Operations Research, and has won numerous best paper awards. He earned a PhD (2013) in Operations Management and Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University.

Experience

  • 2021–present
    Professor of Operations Management & Business Analytics , Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School
  • 2018–2021
    Associate Professor of Operations Management & Business Analytics , Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School
  • 2013–2018
    Assistant Professor of Operations Management & Business Analytics, Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School

Education

  • 2013 
    Carnegie Mellon University, PhD in Operations Management/Robotics

Publications

  • 2022
    Designing AI-Augmented Healthcare Delivery Systems for Physician Buy-in and Patient Acceptance, Production and Operations Management
  • 2022
    NIH Funding of COVID-19 Research in 2020: A Cross Sectional Study, BMJ Open
  • 2022
    The Association between Timing of Elective Surgery Scheduling and Operating Theater Utilization: A Cross-Sectional Retrospective Study, Anesthesia & Analgesia
  • 2022
    A Theory of Interior Peaks: Activity Sequencing and Selection for Service Design, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
  • 2022
    Does Transportation Mean Transplantation? Impact of New Airline Routes on Sharing of Cadaveric Kidneys, Management Science
  • 2022
    Integrating ESG Measures and Supply Chain Management: Research Opportunities in the Postpandemic Era, Service Science
  • 2022
    Managing Two-Dose COVID-19 Vaccine Rollouts with Limited Supply, Production and Operations Management
  • 2021
    Co-opetition in Service Clusters with Waiting-Area Entertainment, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
  • 2021
    Incentive Design for Operations-Marketing Multitasking, Management Science
  • 2021
    Clinical Ambiguity and Conflicts of Interest in Interventional Cardiology Decision‐Making, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
  • 2021
    A Nonprofit Public Utility Approach to Enhance Next-Generation Vaccine Manufacturing Capacity, Population Health Management
  • 2021
    Transforming COVID-19 Vaccines into Vaccination: Challenges and Opportunities for Management Scientists, Health Care Management Science
  • 2021
    Prioritizing Surgical Cases Deferred by the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Ethics-Inspired Algorithmic Framework for Health Leaders, BMJ Leader
  • 2020
    Impact of COVID-19: The Case for AI-Inspired Digital Transformation, OR/MS Today
  • 2020
    Healthcare Operations Management: A Snapshot of Emerging Research, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
  • 2020
    Colorectal cancer services during the COVID-19 pandemic, British Journal of Surgery
  • 2020
    Health Organizational Design: Information Exchange and Accountability, Wiley StatsRef: Statistics Reference Online
  • 2020
    Conspicuous by Its Absence: Diagnostic Expert Testing Under Uncertainty, Marketing Science
  • 2020
    Jumping the Line, Charitably: Analysis and Remedy of Donor-Priority Rule, Management Science
  • 2020
    PPE Supply Chain Needs Data Transparency and Stress Testing, Journal of General Internal Medicine
  • 2020
    Innovative Online Platforms: Research Opportunities, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
  • 2020
    Covid-19 Created an Elective Surgery Backlog. How Can Hospitals Get Back on Track?, Harvard Business Review
  • 2019
    Salesforce Contracting Under Uncertain Demand and Supply: Double Moral Hazard and Optimality of Smooth Contracts, Marketing Science
  • 2019
    Heart analytics: Analytical modeling of cardiovascular care, Naval Research Logistics
  • 2018
    Handbook of Healthcare Analytics, John Wiley & Sons
  • 2017
    Imaging room and beyond: The underlying economics behind physicians' test-ordering behavior in outpatient services, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management
  • 2016
    Contracting for on-time delivery in the U.S. Influenza vaccine supply Chain, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management
  • 2016
    Automated multilateral negotiation on multiple issues with private information, INFORMS Journal on Computing
  • 2016
    Impact of Inventory on Quota-bonus Contracts with Rent Sharing, Operations Research
  • 2013
    Salesforce compensation with inventory considerations, Management Science

Grants and Contracts

  • 2022
    Purposeful Design for AI-Augmented Healthcare: Harnessing Physician-in-the-Loop Systems to Improve the Patient Journey
    Role:
    PI
    Funding Source:
    The Johns Hopkins Discovery Award
  • 2022
    Incorporating AI into Day-to-Day Clinical Workflow: Impact of AI on Healthcare Operations, Physician Behavior, and Quality of Care
    Role:
    PI
    Funding Source:
    The Hopkins Business of Health Initiative Seed Grant
  • 2021
    Autonomous AI To Mitigate Disparities for Diabetic Retinopathy Screening in Youth During and After COVID-19
    Role:
    Consultant
    Funding Source:
    National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01
  • 2021
    Emulating How Experts Think. . . Under Unknown Objectives and Constraints: Augmenting Machine Learning through Inverse Optimization to Automatically Generate Personalized Treatment Plans
    Role:
    Co-PI
    Funding Source:
    The Johns Hopkins Discovery Award
  • 2020
    A Survey of Supply Chain Impacts on U.S. Healthcare Delivery Resulting from the SARS-CoV2 Pandemic
    Role:
    Co-PI
    Funding Source:
    Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) Grant
  • 2020
    Flattening the Curve of Elective Procedures: Implications and Management of Post-Pandemic Demand Surge of Dermatologic Surgery
    Role:
    Co-PI
    Funding Source:
    The Hopkins Business of Health Initiative Seed Grant on “COVID-19 and the Business of Health”
  • 2020
    Personalized Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning
    Role:
    Co-PI
    Funding Source:
    The Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare Seed Grant Award
  • 2015
    Clinical Decision Ambiguity and Conflicts of Interests on Decision-Making in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory: A Stochastic Decision Theoretical Approach
    Role:
    PI
    Funding Source:
    The Johns Hopkins Discovery Award

Professional Memberships

  • Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)