Research

Publications

  1. Split Liver Transplantation: An Analytical Decision Support Model. Yanhan (Savannah) Tang, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Sridhar Tayur, Emily Perito, John Roberts (2025). Operations Research 73(4):1785-1804.
  2. Multi-Armed Bandits with Endogenous Learning Curves: An Application to Split Liver Transplantation. Yanhan (Savannah) Tang, Andrew Li, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Sridhar Tayur (2025). Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 27(2):640-658.

Working Papers

  1. Optimizing Wearable Devices in Personalized Opioid Use Disorder Treatments Under Budget Constraint. Kyra Gan, Yanhan (Savannah) Tang, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Sridhar Taylor (2025). Submitted.
  2. Glass Half Full: Strategic Packaging Decisions and Environmental Outcomes. Neda Mirzaeian, Yanhan (Savannah) Tang (2025). Submitted.
    • Finalist - 2025 INFORMS Service Science Best Paper Award (Socially Responsible Research Track).

Work-In-Progress

  1. Voices of the Vulnerable: Analyzing Social Media Discourse on Child Protective Services. Yanhan (Savannah) Tang (2025).
  2. Using Causal Attention Neural Networks for Social Media Analysis: Augmented Intelligence for Intervention in Online Discourse on Opioid Recovery. Amit Basu, Yanhan (Savannah) Tang (2025).
    • Preliminary version accepted for HICSS 2026.
  3. A Nested Bayesian Model for Inferring Customer Life-Changing Events Based on Financial Transaction Data, Yanhan (Savannah) Tang, Alan Montgomery (2025). (Link to abstract.)

Publicly Available Projects (Not Peer-Reviewed)

  1. When is it permissible for artificial intelligence to lie? A trust-based approach. Tae Wan Kim, Tong (Joy) Lu, Kyusong Lee, Zhaoqi Cheng, Yanhan (Savannah) Tang, John Hooker (2024).
  2. Efficiency, Fairness, and Stability in Peer-to-Peer Ridesharing. Hoon Oh, Yanhan (Savannah) Tang, Zong Zhang, Alexandre Jacquillat, Fei Fang (2021). Technical report for Mobility21.
  3. Human-Artificial Intelligence Teaming and Effects of System Load on Child Welfare Screening. Yanhan (Savannah) Tang, Zoey Jiang, Alan Scheller-Wolf, Justine Galbraith, Lindsey Lacey (2024). (Link to extended abstract.)

: co-first author