J. G. "Jim" Dai Leon C. Welch Professor of Engineering School of Operations Research and Information Engineering Cornell University Former Editor-In-Chief (2013-2018) Mathematics of Operations Research Read Author Spotlight [CV]

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Research interest

• Applied Probability: Fluid models, diffusion models, stochastic processes, and reinforcement learning
• Resource allocations in processing networks that model semiconductor wafer fabrication lines, communications networks, data centers, and service systems
• Modeling and optimization for customer contact centers, hospital inpatient operations, airline yield management, and ridesharing networks
  
  • Dai's papers listed on Google Scholar and on ORCID.

  • J. G. Dai and Pengyi Shi (2017), "Inpatient Overflow: An Approximate Dynamic Programming Approach". To appear in Manufacturing and Service Operations Management.
  • Anton Braverman, J.G. Dai, Xin Liu, Lei Ying (2017), "Empty-car routing in ridesharing systems". To appear in Operations Research
  • J. G. Dai, Anton Kleywegt, and Yongbo Xiao (2019) "Network Revenue Management with Cancellations and No-shows". Production and Opertions Management, Vol 28, pp. 292-318.

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Students Current PhD students Jiekun Feng (Stat) Chang Cao (Stat) Mark Gluzman (Applied Math) Yaosheng Xu (Stat) Former Ph.D. Students

News [Nov 2017] Congratulations to CornellTech colleague Itai Gurvich , former PhD student Anton Braverman, current PhD student Aurora Feng for receiving the 2017 Best Publication Award from INFORMS Applied Probability Society, based on a set of three papers . [June 2018] Jim Dai received the 2018 ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award .

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