黑料不打烊

Yichuan (Daniel) Ding

Title: 
Associate Professor, Health Analytics; Academic Director, Global Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management (GMSCM)
Academic title(s): 

Desautels Scholar

Academic Director of Global Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management (GMSCM) Program

Yichuan (Daniel) Ding
Contact Information
Email address: 
daniel.ding [at] mcgill.ca
Alternate email address: 
gina.ceolin [at] mcgill.ca
Address: 

Bronfman Building []
1001 rue Sherbrooke Ouest
Montreal, Quebec
Canada
H3A 1G5

Degree(s): 

PhD (2012), Stanford University, USA

MS (2007), University of Waterloo, Canada

BS (2005), Zhejiang University, China

Area(s): 
Health Care
Operations Management
Building ID: 
Bronfman
Biography: 

Dr. Yichuan Ding is currently an associate professor in the Desautels Faculty of Management, 黑料不打烊 University. He has been honored as the Desautels Faculty Scholar. Dr. Ding currently serves as the director of the Global Manufacturing and Supply Chain Management Program in the faculty. Dr. Ding obtained his PhD in management science and engineering from Stanford University. His research interests include optimization, queueing, and data analytics, as well as their applications in healthcare delivery systems, including emergency department operations, outpatient care, operation rooms, intensive care unit, and organ transplant. He has published on top-tier academic journals including operations research, mathematics of operations research, manufacturing and service operations management, and production and operations management. Dr. Ding was the winner of the 2023 POMS College of health care operations management best paper competition, the finalist of the 2019 Pierskalla Best Paper Competition, and the finalist of the 2017 INFORMS behavioural operations management best working paper competition. He currently serves as the associate editor for Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (M&SOM), Decision Sciences, and Operations Research Letters.

Specialization: 

Healthcare Management, Operations Management, Optimization, Stochastic Modeling

Courses: 

MGCR 372 Operations Management (BCom)

INSY672 Health Analytics (MMA)

MGSC702 Stochastic System (PhD)

Curriculum vitae: 
Group: 
Faculty
Tenured & Tenure Track
Stream: 
Operations
Research areas: 
Big Data & Machine Learning
Health Care
Health Management
Optimization
Selected publications: 

*- my phd听 or postdoc students

Zhao, X.*, Ding, Y., Ge, D., Xie, X. (2024). "", submitted.听

Chen, Z., Ding, Y., Yang, L. (2024). 鈥溾, Operations Research, major revision.

Ding, Y., Gupta, D., & Zhou, S. (2024). 鈥溾, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Major Revision.

Cao, Y.*, Ding, Y., & Granot, D.(2024). 鈥溾, submitted.

Ding, Y., Nagarajan, M., & Zhang, G. (2024). .听Operations Research, Major Revision.

Jin, Y.*, Ding, Y., Shechter, S., & Arneja, J. S. (2022). ,听Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Major Revision.

Jin, Y.*, Duan, Y., Ding, Y., Nagarajan, M., & Hunte, G. (2020). .听Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Rejected and Resubmitted.

Ding, Y., Gupta, D., Tang, X.* (2022) ,听Operations Research听71, no. 3 (2023): 917-938.

Zhou, S.*, Ding Y., Huh T., Wan, G. (2021). Constant Job-Allowance Policies for Appointment Scheduling: Performance Bounds and Numerical Analysis, Production and Operations Management, 听no. 7 (2021): 2211-2231.

Ding, Y., McCormick, T., Nagarajan, M.听(2021) A Fluid Model for One-Sided Bipartite Matching Queues with Match-Dependent Rewards, Operations Research听69, no. 4 (2021): 1256-1281.

Ata, B., Ding, Y., Zenios S.听鈥淎n Achievable-Region-Based Approach for Kidney Allocation Policy Design with Endogenous Patient Choice鈥, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 23, no. 1 (2021): 36-54.

Ding, Y., Park, E.*, Nagarajan, M., & Grafstein E. 鈥淧atient Prioritization in Emergency Department Triage Systems: An Empirical Study of Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS)鈥, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 21, no. 4 (2019): 723-741.

Ding, Y., Ge D, He, S, & Ryan, C.听鈥淎 Non-Asymptotic Approach to Analyzing Kidney Exchange Graphs鈥, Operations Research, 66, no. 4 (2018): 918-935.

Agrawal, S., Ding, Y., Saberi, A., & Ye, Y. 鈥淧rice of correlations in stochastic optimization鈥, Operations Research, 60, no. 1 (2012): 150-162.

Ding, Y., Ge, D., & Wolkowicz H. 鈥淥n Equivalence of Semidefinite Relaxations for Quadratic Matrix Programming鈥, Mathematics of Operations Research, 36, no. 1 (2011): 88-104.

Ding, Y., Wolkowicz, H.听鈥淎 Low-Dimensional Semidefinite Relaxation for the Quadratic Assignment Problem鈥, Mathematics of Operations Research, 34, no. 4 (2009): 1008-1022.

Awards, honours, and fellowships: 
  • Winner, 2023 Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) Best Healthcare Paper Competition听
  • Winner, 4th annual Canadian Healthcare Optimization Workshop (CHOW) 2021 Best Paper Competition in the category of statistical methods/econometric modeling.
  • Finalist (top 4), 2019 Pierskalla Best Paper Prize, INFORMS Healthcare Society.
  • Honorable Mention (top 3), Best Working Paper Competition, 2017 Behavioral Operations Management Section.
  • Honorable mention (top 4), 2010 student paper prize, by the COSP (Committee of Stochastic Programming)听
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