Huiyin Ouyang

Dr. Huiyin Ouyang is an assistant professor of operations management at the HKU Business School. Her research interests include stochastic modeling and analysis of service systems, healthcare operations, simulation analytics, and data-drive decision making. Before joining HKU, she worked as a postdoc researcher at Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University.

Research Interest

• Simulation analytics
• Modeling and analysis of stochastic systems
• Design and control of queueing systems
• Health care management and service operations
• Data-driven decision making

Education

• PhD in Statistics and Operations Research, 2016
  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• MSc in Management Science and Engineering, 2009
  Tsinghua University
• BSc in Industrial Engineering, 2007
  Tsinghua University

Teaching

• IIMT3636 Decision and Risk Analysis I/ BUSI0036 Quantitative Analysis for Business Decisions I
• MSBA6014 Business Simulation

Selected Publications

• “Scheduling of Physicians with Time-Varying Productivity Levels in Emergency Departments,” (with F. Zaerpour, M. Bijvank and Z. Sun), Production and Operations Management, 2022, 31(2), 645-667.
• “Assigning Priorities (or Not) in Service Systems with Nonlinear Waiting Costs,” (with N.T. Argon and S. Ziya), Management Science, 2022, 68(2), 1233-1255.
• “Allocation of Intensive Care Unit Beds in Periods of High Demand,” (with N.T. Argon and S. Ziya), Operations Research, 2020, 68(2), 591-608.