Joyce Luo

Joyce Luo

Operations Research PhD Candidate

MIT Operations Research Center



Hi! I’m a 3rd year PhD candidate at the MIT Operations Research Center, advised by Professor Georgia Perakis. My research interests are in healthcare and service operations management, with a particular focus on developing and applying analytical methods to help companies, policy makers, and individuals make better decisions under uncertainty. I’m currently working on projects related to scheduling and capacity management for hospital diagnostic services, and optimizing support messaging for mental health patients.

Interests
  • Healthcare Operations Management
  • Optimization
  • Decision Analytics
  • Machine Learning
Education
  • PhD in Operations Research, Expected 2027

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • BSE in Operations Research & Financial Engineering, 2022

    Princeton University

Publications

(2024). Frontiers in Operations: Equitable Data-Driven Facility Location and Resource Allocation to Fight the Opioid Epidemic. In Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.

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(2021). Analysis of potential associations of JUUL flavours with health symptoms based on user-generated data from Reddit. In Tobacco Control.

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(2020). User Perceptions of Different Electronic Cigarette Flavors on Social Media: Observational Study. In JMIR.

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(2020). A Social Media Study on the Associations of Flavored Electronic Cigarettes With Health Symptoms: Observational Study. In JMIR.

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Honors & Awards

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Sigma Xi Book Award for Outstanding Research
Undergraduate Research Poster Session Winner
First Place Undergraduate Poster Presentation