Nan Kong
206 S. Martin Jischke Dr., 3082
West Lafayette, IN 47907
Tel: (765) 496-2467
[email protected]
http://www.ics.purdue.edu/~nkong/
Education:
Ph. D. in Industrial Engineering, 2006.
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Dissertation Title: Optimizing the Efficiency of the United States Organ Allocation System through
Region Reorganization.
Dissertation Advisor: Andrew Schaefer; co-Advisor: Brady Hunsaker.
Master of Engineering in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, 2000.
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
Bachelor of Science in Automation, 1999.
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Academic Employment:
Assistant Professor, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, August 2007 –
present.
Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, University of South
Florida, January 2006 – July 2007.
Lecturer, Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, University of South Florida,
August 2005 – December 2005.
Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of
Pittsburgh, August 2000 – July 2005.
Instructor, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Summer and Fall 2004.
Referred Journal Publications:
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.
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,” 2010. International Journal of Operations Research and
Information Systems. Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 1 – 16.
Kong, N., A.J. Schaefer, B. Hunsaker, and M.S. Roberts, “Maximizing the Efficiency of the U.S. Liver
Allocation Systems through Region Design.” Accepted by Management Science. 2010.
Publications Currently under Review at a Full Reviewed Journal:
Kong, N., A.J. Schaefer, and S. Ahmed, “Totally Unimodular Stochastic Programs.” Under 2nd- round
review in Mathematical Programming.
Sandikci, B., N. Kong, and A.J. Schaefer, “A Hierarchy of Bounds for Two-Stage Stochastic MixedInteger Programs,” 2009. Submitted to Mathematical Programming.
Feng, W. H., N. Kong, and H. Wang, “From Refining to Designing: A Simulation Study of Liver
Allocation with Single Scoring Formula.” 2009. Under 2rd revision in ACM Transactions on Modeling and
Computer Simulation.
Papers in Fully Referred Conference Proceedings:
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.
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 27th 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
23rd Society for Medical Decision Making Annual Meeting, also in Medical Decision Making, vol. 21, No.
6, p. 524.
Research Grants
Active
“Stochastic Pseudo-Boolean Optimization.” Sponsor: Air Force Research Office. May 2008 – April 2011.
Purdue PI ($50,000/year)
“Regenstrief Supplemental Proposal” Sponsor: Regenstrief Institute for Health Care. August 2007 – June
2010. Co-PI ($17564)
Expired
“Optimal Long-term Care Resource Allocation for Older Adults Enrolled in Medicaid.” Sponsor:
Regenstrief Foundation. July 2008 – June 2009. PI ($40,000)
“Optimal Long-term Care Resource Allocation for Older Adults Enrolled in Medicaid.” Sponsor: Purdue
Research Foundation. July 2008 – June 2009. PI ($16,375)
“Simulation-based Optimization for Region Design in the U.S. Organ Transplantation and Allocation
Network.” Sponsor: University of South Florida Office of Sponsor Research. January 2006 – December
2007. PI ($10,000)
Invited Seminars
“Colorectal Cancer Screening and Surveillance Strategy Optimization” IUPUI, Department of Biomedical
Engineering, April 2010.
“Operations Research Applications in Long-term Care Decision Making” Indiana University, Center for
Aging Research, September 2009
“Health Care Systems Engineering,” The 2nd Military Medical University, Department of Health Services,
Shanghai, China, April 2009.
“Optimal Resource Allocation for Long-term Care Services,” Tsinghua University, Department of
Industrial Engineering, December 2009.
“Operations Research in Health Care,” Indiana University, Center for Health Services and Outcomes
Research, December 2008.
“Determining the Optimal Locations to Schedule Outpatient Specialty Visits within a Fully Defined
Catchment Area,” Mayo Clinic, Division of Health Care Policy and Research, February 2008.
“Determining the Optimal Locations to Schedule Outpatient Specialty Visits within a Fully Defined
Catchment Area,” Tsinghua University, Department of Industrial Engineering, Beijing, China, January
2008.
“Applying Operations Research to Organ Transplantation and Allocation for System and Policy
Improvement,” Department of Automation, Beijing, China, January 2008.
“Issues and Challenges in Optimal Design for Cadaveric Organ Sharing,” University of Miami, School of
Business, Coral Gables, September 2007.
“Issues and Challenges in Optimal Design for Cadaveric Organ Sharing,” Purdue University, Krannert
School of Management, West Lafayette, September 2007.
“Applying Operations Research to Organ Transplantation and Allocation for System and Policy
Improvement,” North Carolina State University, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering,
Raleigh, NC, March 2007.
“Applying Operations Research to Organ Transplantation and Allocation for System and Policy
Improvement,” Purdue University, Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, West Lafayette, IN,
February 2007.
“Optimizing the Efficiency of the United States Liver Allocation System through Region Reorganization,”
Tsinghua University, Department of Industrial Engineering, Beijing, China, July 2006.
“Optimizing Regions in the Liver Allocation System,” Florida State University, Department of Industrial
and Manufacturing Engineering, Tallahassee, FL, March 2005.
“Optimizing Regions in the Liver Allocation System,” University of Texas at Arlington, Department of
Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Arlington, TX, March 2005.
“Optimizing Regions in the Liver Allocation System,” University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Department
of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Milwaukee, WI, March 2005.
“Optimizing Regions in the Liver Allocation System,” University of South Florida, Department of
Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, Tampa, FL, March, 2005.
“Optimizing Regions in the Liver Allocation System,” University of British Columbia, Sauder School of
Business, Vancouver, BC, Canada, February, 2005.
Conference Presentations (Given by myself or a coauthor, * represents Invited)
INFORMS 2009 Annual Meeting, San Diego, California. October 11 – 14, 2009.
 “Physician Scheduling to Improve Spatial Access for Outpatient Specialty Care” *
 “Algorithmic Development on a Class of Stochastic Quadratic 0-1 Programs” *
 “Simulation Study of the Response Surface of the Liver Transplantation Allocation Policy” *
 “Optimal Capacity Planning for Medicaid Home and Community Based Services” *
IIE 2009 Annual Research Conference, Miami, Florida, May 30 – June 2, 2009.
 “Optimal Physician Scheduling in a Multi-Clinic Network to Improve Patient Accessibility to
Outpatient Care” *
 “Examining the Response Surface on the Liver Allocation Process” *
 “Choosing the Long-term Care Services for Older Adults”
 “An Agent-based Simulation Model to Analyze the US Liver Allocation Policy” *
INFORMS 2008 Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. October 9-12, 2006.
 “Physician/Patient Scheduling to Improve Spatial Accessibility in a Distributed Healthcare
Network.” *
INFORMS 2007 Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, October 12-15, 2006.
 “Two-Stage Stochastic Pseudo-Boolean Optimization.” *
IIE 2007 Annual Research Conference, Nashville, Tennessee, May 20 – 24, 2007.
 “Clinic Access Management for the Tampa VA Hospital.” *
INFORMS 2006 Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 5-8, 2006.
 “Optimizing the Efficiency of the United States Organ Allocation System through Region
Reorganization.” *
 “A Hierarchy of Bounds for Two-Stage Stochastic Mixed-Integer Programs.” *
 “Simulation-based Optimization Approach for Maximizing Liver Allocation Efficiency.” *
19th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 30 –
August 4, 2006.
 “Total Unimodular Stochastic Programs.” *
 “Redesigning the Liver Allocation Hierarch.” *
INFORMS 2006 International Conference, Hong Kong, China, June 25 - 28, 2006.
 “Simulation-based Optimization Approach for Maximizing Liver Allocation Efficiency.” *
IIE 2006 Annual Research Conference, Orlando, Florida, May 21-24, 2006.
 “Simulation-based Optimization Approach for Organ Transplantation Region Design.” *
INFORMS Optimization Society Conference on Optimization and Health Care 2006, San Antonio,
Texas, February, 3-5, 2006.
 “Optimizing the Efficiency of the Liver Allocation System through Region Reorganization: A
Branch and Price Approach.” *
 “Polyhedral Study of the Optimal Region Design Problem for Organ Allocation and
Transplantation.” *
INFORMS 2005 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, November 13 – 16, 2005.
 “Optimal Region Design for the Liver Allocation and Transplantation Systems.” *
 “Balancing Transplant Efficiency and Equity: A Multiobjective Combinatorial Optimization
Approach.” *
 “A Polyhedral Study of the Optimal Organ Allocation Region Design Problem.” *
 “Total Unimodular Stochastic Programs.” *
 “Solving a Stochastic Game in the Electricity Market with SMPEC” *
IFORS Triennial Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, July 11 – 15, 2005.
 “Polyhedral Study of the Optimal Region Design Problem for Organ Allocation and
Transplantation.”
 “Totally Unimodular Stochastic Programs.”
Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) 2005 Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California,
October 21 – 24, 2005.
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“Computational Improvement of Integer Programming Models for Determining the Optimal
Configuration of Regions in the U.S. Organ Transplantation and Allocation Network.”
INFORMS 2004 Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, October 24 – 27, 2004.
 “Optimizing Regions in the Liver Allocation System.” *
 “Two-Stage Integer Programs with Stochastic Right-Hand Sides: A Superadditive Dual
Approach.” *
 “Bounds on the Optimal Objective of Stochastic Mixed-Integer Programs.”
10th International Conference on Stochastic Programming, Tucson, Arizona, October 11 – 15, 2004.
 “Two-Stage Stochastic Integer Programs with Stochastic Right-Hand Sides: A Superadditive Dual
Approach.”
 “Totally Unimodular Stochastic Programs.”
IIE 2004 Annual Research Conference, Houston, Texas, May 16-18, 2004.
 “Optimal Region Design for the National Organ Allocation System.”
INFORMS 2003 Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, October 19 – 22, 2003.
 “Optimal Region Design for the National Organ Allocation System.”
18th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 18 –
22, 2003.
 “Two-Stage Integer Programming with Stochastic Right-Hand Sides.”
INFORMS 2002 Annual Meeting, San Jose, California, November 17 – 20, 2002.
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“Two-Stage Integer Programming with Stochastic Right-Hand Sides.” *
 “A Factor ½ Approximation Algorithm for a Class of Stochastic Mixed-Integer Programs.”
9th International Conference on Stochastic Programming, Berlin, Germany, August 25 – 31, 2001.
 “Large-Scale Stochastic Integer Programming – A Superadditive Dual Approach.”
Teaching Experience:
Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University
BME 695: Data Mining in Health Care. Spring 2009.
BME595: Nonlinear Dynamics of Biological Systems. Fall 2009.
BME695: Stochastic Dynamic Programming/Control in Medical Decision Making. Fall 2008.
CLA : Cancer Prevention and Treatment. Spring 2008.
CLA: Technological and Managerial Innovations in Telemedicine. Fall 2008.
Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, University of South Florida.
ESI6448: Integer Programming. Spring 2007.
ESI4312: Deterministic Operations Research. Fall 2006, Fall2005.
EIN 6936: Integer and Nonlinear Programming. Spring 2005.
Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh.
ENGR0020: Probability and Statistics for Engineers I. Fall 2004
IE3095: Stochastic Programming. Summer 2004
Graduate Students Supervised or being Supervised:
Purdue University:
Yu Teng (Ph.D.), September 2007 – present.
Maoying Zhu (Ph.D.), September 2008 – present.
Wen-Hsin Feng (Ph.D.), May 2008 – present.
Zhen Zhu (M.S.). November 2008 – present.
Satish Vijayaraghavan (M.S.), October 2007 – April 2010. Thesis title: Allocation Resign Design for the
US Liver Transplantation Network: Simulation-Based Optimization Approach with Motivated Meta
Modeling.
University of South Florida:
Vijay Veerachandran (M.S.), September 2005 – December 2006. Thesis title: Assisting Policy Making for
Balancing the Efficiency and Equity of the U.S. Liver Allocation: An Analytic Hierarchy Processes (AHP)
Approach.
Patricio Rocha (Ph.D.), September 2005 – April 2007.
Honors and Awards:
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1st 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.
Selected for Young Research Roundtable in INFORMS Conference on O.R. Practice, 2006.
Outstanding Research Assistant Award, College of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 2005.
Champion of RoboCup2000, the 2000 Robot Soccer World Cup, 2000. Team member.
Journal Editorial Experience:
Referee for Operations Research, Management Science, Mathematical Programming, Networks, Asian
Pacific Journal of Operations Research, Journal of Global Optimization, Optimization Letters, Omega,
Algorithmic Operations Research, Health Care Management Science, International Journal of Production
Economics, Computer and Industrial Engineering.
Book Chapter Referee for Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science.
Book Reviewer for Journal of the Operational Research Society (JORS).
Other Professional Service:
International:
 External Referee for National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Fall
2009.
National:
 Organization Committee Member, IIE 2009 Annual Research Conference, Miami, FL, 2009
 Track Chair, IIE 2009 Annual Research Conference, Health and Service Systems Track, 2009.
 Council Member, INFORMS Health Application Section, 2007 – present.
 Panelist for one National Science Foundation Operations Research unsolicited proposal review panel,
2005.
 Panelist for one National Science Foundation Manufacturing Systems Engineering unsolicited proposal
review panel, 2006.
 Speaker at IIE 2006 Doctoral Colloquium, 2006.
 Judge for IIE 2006 Doctoral Colloquium Best Poster, 2006.
 Reviewer for the 114th Annul American Society for Engineering Education Conference, 2007.
 Reviewer for the 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making, 2005.
 Session Chair, “Scheduling and Resource Allocation Applications in Healthcare,” INFORMS 2009,
Oct. 2009.
 Session Chair, “Algorithmic Development in Stochastic Programming I,” INFORMS 2009, Oct. 2009.
 Session Chair, “Algorithmic Development in Stochastic Programming II,” INFORMS 2009, Oct. 2009.
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Session Chair, “Scheduling and Resource Allocation Applications in Healthcare,” INFORMS 2009,
Oct. 2009.
Session Chair, “Dynamics Programming and Optimal Control Applications in Medical Decision
Making,” INFORMS 2009, Oct. 2009.
Session Chair, “Planning and Scheduling Issues in Primary Care,” INFORMS 2008, Oct. 2008.
Session Chair, “Healthcare Applications around the World,” INFORMS 2007, Oct. 2007.
Session Chair, “Mathematical Programming and Simulation in Planning and Scheduling,” IIE 2009.
Purdue University:
 Chair, Biomedical Engineering Graduate Admissions Committee, since Fall 2009
 Member, University Library Committee, since Fall 2008.
 Member, Biomedical Engineering Graduate Admissions Committee, Fall 2007 – Spring 2009.
 Faculty advisor, Purdue Chinese Students and Scholars Association, since Summer 2008.
 Faculty advisor, Purdue Undergraduate Chinese Association, since Fall 2008.
 Faculty advisor, Purdue International Student Alliance, since Fall 2007.
 Faculty advisor, Purdue International Week Team, Fall 2008.
University of South Florida:
 Member of the USF College of Engineering Computing Committee.
 Panelist for two USF Sponsored Research Internal Awards proposal review panels, Spring and Fall,
2006.
 Coach of the USF College of Engineering Mathematical Contest in Modeling Team, 2006 – 2007.
Professional Membership:
 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.