I am currently an Associate Professor in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell University . I received my PhD in Operations Research and Financial Engineering in 2013 at Princeton University where my advisor was Dr. William A. Massey .
My primary research interests involve the stochastic analysis and optimal control of queueing networks with time varying rates. Often valuable information about the queueing system can be lost or delayed and I am interested in how this loss or delay of information impacts the dynamics of queueing networks. I am also broadly interested in the applications of queueing networks in the study of service systems, collaborative economies, smartphone networks, healthcare, and transportation systems.
My Awesome Wife Who Studies the Microbiome
Recent Talk on Autonomous Vehicles
Talk on Queues with Delayed Information
Contact Information
Email: jjp274@cornell.edu | Office: 228 Rhodes Hall | Tel: (646) 418-5950
Awards and Press
- INFORMS MIF Early Career Award (2019)
- IBM Best Paper Award Third Place (2019)
- INFORMS MIF Best Paper Award Second Place (2019)
- Zellman Warhaft Award (2019)
- SIAM NEWS (2019)
- SIAM CSE Plenary (2019)
- Cornell Research Feature (2018)
- National Science Foundation Early Career Award (2018)
- James and Marsha McCormick Excellence in Advising Award (2017)
- Sonny Yau Excellence in Teaching Award (2017)
- Podcast on Queueing Theory (It’s Number 19)
- Cornell Chronicle Article on Queueing Theory
- Honorable Mention (2nd Place) INFORMS Telecommunications Best Paper Award (2016)
- Ford Foundation Fellowship 2014: “Stabilizing Markov Processes Using Transition Rates”
- Patrice Y. Johnson Award 2013
- Informs Student Chapter Best Paper Award 2011
- RTG Fellowship on Stochastic Analysis (My First Trip to Cornell @ APS Conference 2009)
Selected Publications (Full List Here)
- Using Simulation to Study the Impact of Racial Demographics on Blood Transfusion Allocation Policies Winter Simulation Conference (2017). (joint with Marie Kahara (undergraduate student) )
- Queues with Choice via Delay Differential Equations International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos (joint with Richard Rand and Elizabeth Wesson )
- Comparisons of Ticket and Standard Queues in Heavy Traffic Queueing Systems (joint with Otis Jennings )
- Sampling the Kolmogorov Forward Equations: Applications to Nonstationary Queueing Networks INFORMS Journal on Computing (2016)
- Approximating and Stabilizing Dynamic Rate Jackson Networks with Abandonment Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences (2016) (joint with William A. Massey )
- Nonstationary Loss Queues Via Cumulant Moment Approximations Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences (2015) **Honorable Mention INFORMS Telecommunications (2016) Best Paper Award**
- Gram Charlier Expansions for Time Varying Multiserver Queues with Abandonment SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics (2014)
- Gaussian Skewness Approximation for Dynamic Rate Multiserver Queues with Abandonment Queueing Systems (2013) (joint with William A. Massey ) **INFORMS 2011 Best Paper Award**