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Nan Kong

Health Professions · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Established · publishing since 1993Rising activity
Healthcare Operations and Scheduling OptimizationGeriatric Care and Nursing HomesVehicle Routing Optimization MethodsHealthcare Policy and ManagementPsychometric Methodologies and Testing

Publications

223

Citations

2,842

Est. group size

~6

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

34

Publishing since 1993

Research summary
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Nan Kong's work centers on applying optimization, machine learning, and decision-analytic methods to healthcare operations problems, such as scheduling, resource planning in nursing homes, trauma and injury care, and predictive modeling for diseases like hepatitis B and Alzheimer's. The publication record also includes methodological work in stochastic programming, reinforcement learning, and psychometric measurement (item response theory), suggesting a broad toolkit applied across health systems and clinical prediction problems.

Healthcare operations research and schedulingPredictive modeling for clinical outcomes (e.g., hepatitis B, Alzheimer's, trauma)Optimization and stochastic decision-making methodsNursing home and aging population resource planningPsychometrics and item response theory

Publication output has been relatively steady over the past decade, with a notable increase in 2023-2024 before tapering in 2025.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 16.6/year recently
2017: 18 publications172018: 18 publications182019: 14 publications192020: 12 publications202021: 11 publications212022: 16 publications222023: 19 publications232024: 35 publications35242025: 12 publications252026: 1 publication26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • SSRN Electronic Journal×26
  • IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering×5
  • Computers & Industrial Engineering×4
  • IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering×4
  • arXiv (Cornell University)×4
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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