Portrait of Minmin Zhang

Minmin Zhang

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Public Impact Analytics Science Lab (PIAS-Lab), Harvard University

AI in Healthcare Operations

About

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Public Impact Analytics Science Lab (PIAS-Lab), Harvard University, where I work with Prof. Soroush Saghafian. My research focuses on healthcare operations management, leveraging large language models, machine learning, empirical econometrics, and laboratory experiments to address operational challenges in healthcare.

I received my Ph.D. from the Naveen Jindal School of Management at The University of Texas at Dallas, where I was advised by Prof. Guihua Wang and Prof. Elena Katok. Prior to my doctoral studies, I earned a B.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and both a B.S.E. and an M.S. in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Research

Under Review / Revision

  1. A Multi-Treatment Forest Approach for Analyzing the Heterogeneous Effects of Team Familiarity

    with G. Wang, W. Hopp, and M. Mathis · Under Major Revision

  2. A Heterogeneous Transition Forest Approach for Analyzing Changes in Health States: Implications for Organ Transplantation

    with G. Wang · Under Major Revision

Published Papers

  1. The Spillover Effect of Suspending Non-essential Surgery: Evidence from Kidney Transplantation

    with G. Wang and T. Dai · Management Science, Forthcoming

  2. Pausing Transplants in the Face of a Global Pandemic: Patient Survival Implications

    with G. Wang, J. Li, W. Hopp, and D. Lee · Production and Operations Management, 32(5): 1380-1396, 2023

Working Papers

  1. The Social Benefit of Advice: The Impact of Uncertainty and Positive Externality on Compliance Behavior

    with G. Bolton and E. Katok · Manuscript in Preparation

  2. Advance Purchase Contracts under Bargaining: Theory and Experiments

    with H. Du and E. Katok · Manuscript in Preparation

  3. A Regression Discontinuity Forest Approach for Analyzing the Impact of Medicare on Kidney Transplantation

    with J. Liu and G. Wang · Manuscript in Preparation

Teaching

  1. Supply Chain and Operations Management

    The University of Texas at Dallas · Spring 2023, Spring 2024, and Summer 2024

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