Yina Lu

Program:   Doctoral

Division:   Decision, Risk & Operations

Advisers:

  • Marcelo Olivares
  • Linda V. Green

Other Educational Information:

  • BS, Peking University, 2008

Research Interests:

  • Empirical estimation
  • Service operations
  • Healthcare
  • Modeling of stochastic systems

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Yina Lu

Office
4J Uris

Phone
9172390099

Email
YLu13@gsb.columbia.edu

Personal Website
www.columbia.edu/~yl2494

Honors and Awards

Eugene M. Lang Support Fund Doctoral Student Collaborative Grant, 2011

Deming Doctoral Research Fellowship, 2011

First place, INFORMS Section on Public Programs, Services and Needs best paper competition, 2011

First Prize, INFORMS 2012 MSOM Student Paper Competition, 2012

Papers

Primary Care Physician Shortages Could Be Eliminated Through Use Of Teams, Nonphysicians, And Electronic Communication (2013) Coauthor(s): L.V.Green, Y.Lu, and S.Savin
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Prioritizing Burn-Injured Patients During a Disaster (2012) Coauthor(s): C.W. Chan, L.V.Green, Y.Lu, N.E.Leahy, and R.Yurt
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Measuring the Effect of Queues on Customer Purchases (2012) Coauthor(s): Y.Lu, A.Musalem, M.Olivares, and A.Schilkrut
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Burn Disaster Response Planning in New York City: Updated Recommendations for Best Practices (2012) Coauthor(s): N. E. Leahy, et al.
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Research in progress

“Empirical Study on Agent Productivity in IT Service,” with A.Heching and M.Olivares.