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Cheng HUA
- Department:Management Science
- Phone:+86 (0)21 52301586
- Title:Associate Professor
- Email:cheng.hua@sjtu.edu.cn
Profile
Employment
2023 - Now Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Associate Professor
2020 - 2023 Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Assistant Professor
Education
2015 - 2020 Yale Scool of Management, Operations Management, Ph.D.
2015 - 2018 Yale University, Operations Management, Mphil
2015 - 2017 Yale University, Statistics and Data Science, MA
2013 - 2015 University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Industrial and Operations Engineering, BSE
2011 - 2015 Shanghai Jiaotong University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, BSE
Honors and Awards
2023 POMS International Conference in China Best Paper Award, First Place
2023 INFORMS Service Science Best Cluster Paper Award, Finalist
2022 INFORMS Conference on Service Science Best Paper, Finalist
2022 POMS International Conference in China Best Paper Award, Honorable Mention
2022 SJTU Outstanding Thesis Advisor (Top 1%)
2020 INFORMS Conference on Service Science Best Paper, Winner
2018 INFORMS Data Driven Paper Competition, Finalist
2015 James B. Angell Scholar
2014 INFORMS Undergraduate Operations Research Prize, Finalist
2014 IIE Paper Competition, Winner
Awards by Supervised Students
2022 INFORMS Workshop on Data Science, Student Scholarship
2022 INFORMS Section on Finance Best Student Paper, Third Prize Winner
2021 INFORMS Conference on Service Science Best Studen Paper, Second Prize Winner
Research Interests
Methodology: Data-Driven Optimization, Stochastic Processes, Aritificial Intelligence, Approximation Algorithms
Applications: Healthcare Operations, Service Operations, AI for Science
Research
Publications
Hua C, Swersey AJ. (2022) "Cross-Trained Fire-Medics Respond to Medical Calls and Fire Incidents: A Fast Algorithm for a Three-State Spatial Queuing Problem". Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 24(6), 3177-3192.
Liu H, Hua C, Lei C. (2021) "Dynamic Volunteer Firefighter Planning Under Stochastic Service Disruptions". Transportation Research Part E, 154 (2021) 102459
Zhang H, Shi C, Qin C, Hua C. (2017) "Stochastic Regret Minimization for Revenue Management Problems with Nonstationary Demands" Naval Research Logistics. Vol. 63 (6), 433-448.
- Finalist, INFORMS Undergraduate Operations Research Prize
- First Prize, IIE Best Student Paper Competition
Xing W#, Hua C#. (2022) "Optimal Unit Locations in Emergency Service Systems with Bayesian Optimization" Proceedings of 2022 INFORMS International Conference on Service Science. INFORMS International Conference on Service Science, 439-452
Wang B#, Jing J#, Huang X#, Hua C#, Qin Q, Jia Y, Jiang L, Gao B, Wu L, Zeng X, Wang F, Liu S, Mao C. (2022) "Establishment of a Knowledge-and-Data-Driven Artificial Intelligence System with Robustness and Interpretability in Laboratory Medicine". Advanced Intelligent Systems, 4 (5), 2100204
Hua C#, Xing W#. (2021) "Patient Transfer Under Ambulance Offload Delays: An Approximate Dynamic Programming Approach." INFORMS International Conference on Service Science, 337-350
Hua C, Zaman T. (2020) "Optimal Dispatch in Emergency Service System via Reinforcement Learning". INFORMS International Conference on Service Science, 75-87
(# indicates equal contribution)
Working Paper
Xing W#, Hua C#. "Multi-Priority Patient Transfer under Ambulance Offload Delay" (Under Revision)
- Second Prize, INFORMS Conference on Service Science Best Student Paper
Hua C, Luo J, Swersey AJ, Wen Y. "A Novel Birth and Death Chain Formulation and Solution to a Spatial Queuing Problem". (Under Revision)
Hua C, Swersey AJ, Chiyoshi F, Innanoni AP, Morabito R. "Improving Productivity: An Emergency Service System in which Cross-Trained Fire-Medics Respond to Medical Calls and Fire Incidents". (Under Revision)
He J#, Hua C#, Zheng Z. "Scalable Reinforcement Learning Algorithms with Dynamic Financial Data Embedding". (Under Revision)
- Third Prize, INFORMS Section on Finance Best Student Paper
Hua C, Wang T, Zhang J, Zhou Z. "Asymptotically Optimal Policies for Dynamic Ambulance Dispatch" (Under Review)
- First Prize, POM International Conference in China Best Paper
- Finalist, INFORMS Service Science Best Cluster Paper Award
Hua C, Swersey AJ, Xing W. "A Bayesian Optimization Model for Locating Emergency Service Units" (Under Review)
- Finalist, INFORMS Conference on Service Science Best Paper
- Honorable Mention, POMS International Conference Best Paper Award
Hua C, Zaman T. "Optimal Dispatch in Emergency Service System". (In progress)
- First Prize, INFORMS Conference on Service Science Best Paper
Hua C. "Approximating the Performance of Three-State Emergency Service Systems using Inverse Erlang Formula". (In Progress)
Teaching
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AM217 Regression Analysis
BU366 Reinforcement Learning
Supervised Students:
Wenqian Xing, Master's student, First Position: Stanford University, MS&E, PhD
Jinghai He, Undergraduate student, First Postition, UC Berkeley, IEOR, PhD
Xu Huang, Undergraduate student, First Position: UC Berkeley, Material Science and Engineering, PhD
Bingrui Bian, Undergraduate student, First Position: Purdue University, Operations Management, PhD
Zihao Wu, Master's student, First Position: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Operations Management, PhD