Faculty Profile

Lee Kong Chian School of Business LKCSB

Full-time Faculty

Assistant Professor of Operations Management

2019 - 2024	Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering Purdue University
2015 - 2019	B.S. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Peking University

2025 - Now

Assistant Professor of Operations Management
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University

Gayle and Frank Johnston Scholarship, Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering 2024

First place, Outstanding Innovation in Service Systems Engineering Award, IISE 2023

Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship, Department of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University 2023

A. H. Ismail Interdisciplinary Program Doctoral Research Travel Award, Purdue University 2022

Application: Data-driven socially responsible operations, focusing on healthcare and criminal justice

Xiaoquan Gao, Nan Kong, and Paul Griffin. "Shortening emergency medical response time with joint operations of UAVs with ambulances." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 26.2 (2023): 447-464.
Xiaoquan Gao, Sabriya Alam, Pengyi Shi, Franklin Dexter, and Nan Kong. "Interpretable machine learning models to predict hospital patient readmission." BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making 23.1 (2023): 1-11.
Xiaoquan Gao, Jianpei Wen, and Jie Song. "Capacity allocation and revenue sharing in healthcare alliances." Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal 32.4 (2020): 829-851.

xiaoquangao@smu.edu.sg

Research Areas