Nan Kong (a picture taken in the Beautiful Hawaii)

Assistant Professor
Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907
Telephone: 765-496-2467
Fax: 765-496-1459
E-mail: nkong@purdue.edu
Office number: MJIS3082

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh
• Major Advisor: Andrew J. Schaefer
• M.Eng., School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Cornell University
• B.S., Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, China

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Stochastic Optimization (stochastic programming, Markov decision processes, simulation optimization); Discrete Optimization; Agent-based Modeling and Simulation

Healthcare Resource Allocation; Medical Decision Making; Hospital Simulation

Healthcare Networks and Communication, Computational Neuroscience

PUBLICATIONS

• JOURNAL ARTICLES

  • Prokopyev, O., N. Kong, and D. L. Martinez-Torres, "The Equitable Dispersion Problem.". 2009. European Journal of Operational Research. Vol. 197, No. 1, pp. 59 – 67.

  • Wang L. and N. Kong, "Security Constrained Economic Dispatch: A Markov Decision Process Approach with Embedded Stochastic Programming," 2009. Accepted for publication by the International Journal of Operations Research and Information Systems.

  • Kong, N., A.J. Schaefer, and B. Hunsaker, "Two-Stage Integer Programs with Stochastic Right-Hand Sides: A Superadditive Dual Approach," 2006. Mathematical Programming. Vol. 108, pp. 275-296.

  • Kong, N. and A.J. Schaefer, "A Factor ½ Approximation Algorithm for a Class of Two-Stage Stochastic Mixed-Integer Programs," 2006. European Journal of Operational Research. Vol. 172, pp. 740-746.

  • Stahl, J.E., N. Kong, S.M. Shechter, A.J. Schaefer, and M.S. Roberts, "A Methodological Framework for Optimally Re-Organizing Liver Transplant Regions," 2005. Medical Decision Making. Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 35-46.

• CONFERENCE PROCEEDING PAPERS

  • Kong, N. and P. Fabri, "Optimal Physician Scheduling in a Multi-Clinic Network to Improve Patient Accessibility to Outpatient Care," 2009. In Proceedings of the 2009 IIE Research Conference.
  • Elman, A., N. Kong, E. Bartlett, and K.J. Otto, "Analysis of Sensory Transformations in Response to Complex Sensory Stimuli in the Auditory Pathway," 2008. In Proceedings of the 3rd INFORMS Workshop on Data Mining and Health Informatics (DM-HI 2008).
  • Chen, X., I. Brian, and N. Kong, "Temporal Prediction Models for Mortality Risk among Patients Awaiting Liver Transplantation," 2008. In Proceedings of the 3rd INFORMS Workshop on Data Mining and Health Informatics (DM-HI 2008).
  • Y. Teng and N. Kong, "Applying Agent-based Modeling and Simulation (ABMS) to the U.S. Organ Transplantation and Allocation Network," 2008. In Proceedings of the 3rd INFORMS Workshop on Data Mining and Health Informatics (DM-HI 2008). 
  • Kong, N., A.J. Schaefer, B. Hunsaker, and M. Roberts, "Computational Improvement of Integer Programming Models for Determining the Optimal Configuration of Regions in the U.S. Organ Transplantation and Allocation Network," 2005. Abstract. In Proceedings of the 27^th Society for Medical Decision Making Annual Meeting.
  • Kong, N., A.J. Schaefer, B. Hunsaker and M.S. Roberts, "Optimizing Regions for Organ Transplants," 2004. Extended Abstract. In Proceedings of the 2004 IIE Research Conference.
  • Kong, N., S.M. Shechter, A.J. Schaefer, and J.E. Stahl, "Organ Transplantation Regions: The Need for Optimization," 2002. Extended Abstract. In Proceedings of the2002 IIE Research Conference.

  • Stahl, J.E., N. Kong, Z. Wang, A.J. Schaefer, and G.S. Gazelle, "Organ Transplant Regions – What Is Their Optimal Size and Distribution? A Framework for Analysis," 2001. Abstract. In Proceedings of the 23^rd Society for Medical Decision Making Annual Meeting, also in Medical Decision Making, vol. 21, No. 6, p. 524.

WORKING PAPERS

• Kong, N., A.J. Schaefer, B. Hunsaker, and M.S. Roberts, "Maximizing the Efficiency of the U.S. Liver Allocation Systems through Region Design."

• Sandikci, B., N. Kong, and A.J. Schaefer, "A Hierarchy of Bounds for Two-Stage Stochastic Mixed-Integer Programs."

• Feng, W. H., N. Kong, and H. Wang, "A Simulation Study of Cadaveric Liver Allocation with a Single-Score Ranking Formula."

• Teng Y. and N. Kong, "Modeling and Analysis of Dynamic Assignment in Scale-free Networks: An Agent-based Simulation Exercise."

• Kong, N. and P. Fabri, "A Simulation Optimization Model for Determining the Optimal Locations to Schedule Outpatient Specialty Visits within a Fully Defined Catchment Area by Minimizing Patient Travel Distance and Time."

• Lin, F., M. Lawley, N. Kong, L. Sands, J. Thomas III, and H. Xu, "Capacity Planning for Medicaid Home and Community Based Services (HCBS)."

• Kong, N., A.J. Schaefer, and S. Ahmed, "Totally Unimodular Stochastic Programs."

TEACHING

HONORS AND AWARDS

• 1^st Place, IIE Pritsker Dissertation Award, 2007.
• Honorable Mention, INFORMS Dantzig Dissertation Award, 2006.
• Meritorious Award, Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 2006. Coach of the USF Engineering team.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2002 – present.
• Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), 2004 – present.
• Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM), 2005 – present.
• American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), 2006 – present.
• Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), 2008 – present.

MY CV

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