Research

1. A Simple Statistical Model and Physical Device to Estimate a Woman-Specific Probability of Skilled Birth Assistance and Associated Benefit of Maternity Waiting Home Stay
   With Jérémie Gallien, Qi (George) Chen, Yi Zhang, Jody Lori, Joseph Sieka, and Bentoe Tehoungue.
   Published at PLoS One 20(5): e0302245.
   • Project website: birth-analytics.org
2. Optimal Assignment Guidelines for Maternity Waiting Homes in Resource-Constrained Environments
   With Qi (George) Chen, Jérémie Gallien, Jody Lori, Dimitris Panayiotou, and Joseph Sieka.
   Major Revision at Operations Research.
   • Project website: birth-analytics.org
   • Accepted for presentation at 2025 MSOM Healthcare SIG
3. Reserving Capacity, Restoring Fairness: Scheduling Elective Caesarean Sections in the English NHS
   With Yueyang Zhong, Catherine Aiken, and Pedra Rabiee;
   Previously circulated as “Balancing Fairness and Efficiency in Scheduling for Maternity Care”.
   Under Review.
   • Accepted for presentation at 2026 MSOM Main Conference
4. Optimal Deployment of AI-Enabled Portable Ultrasound for Antenatal Care in Sub-Saharan Africa
   With Qi (George) Chen, Harwin De Vries, Jérémie Gallien, and Qingxia (Cynthia) Kong.
   Work in Progress.

Pre-PhD Work

1. Optimization and Operations Research in Mitigation of a Pandemic
   With Caihua Chen, Dongdong Ge, Lin Lei, and Yinyu Ye.
   Published at Journal of the Operations Research Society of China 10(2): 289–304.

2. Strategic Switchers: The Unique Feature of Carpooling
   With Rowan Wang.