Daiki Min and Professor Yuehwern Yih receive prestigious Best Track Paper Award at IERC 2009

Daiki Min, a Ph.D. student in the School of Industrial Engineering and Dr. Yuehwern Yih were presented the IERC 2009 Best Track Paper Award - Health and Service Systems at the IIE Annual Conference and Expo 2009 in Miami on the 31st of May. IERC research sessions unveil the latest research conducted at top universities and corporations around the world. The award winning paper was titled "Dynamic programming approach to an elective surgery schedule considering patient priority". The paper presents a stochastic dynamic programming model to optimize the surgery rate (number of surgery cases per unit period) taking into consideration operating room capacity and patient priority.

Daiki Min obtained his B.S and M.S degrees from Seoul National University, Korea. He is currently working towards a Ph.D. degree under Dr. Yuehwern Yih in the School of Industrial Engineering at Purdue. His research interests include stochastic dynamic programming, health care operations management, surgery scheduling problems, RFID/sensor network and medical informatics in health care operations.

Dr. Yuehwern Yih, a professor in the School of Industrial Engineering, obtained her B.S degree from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan (1984) and her Ph.D .from University of Wisconsin-Madison(1988). Her research interests include design, monitor and control of complex systems, behavior-based dynamic control, machine learing and artificial intelligence as well as heath care re-engineering.