Research

Publications

1. 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.
   • Finalist - 2022 INFORMS Service Science Best Cluster Paper Award. (Link to talk.)
   • Second place - POMS-HK 2023 Best Student Paper Competition
   • Runner up - POMS College of Service Operations Management (CSOM) Best Student Paper Competition
   • Runner up - 2023 Decision Analysis Society Student Paper Award
   • Presented at MSOM Healthcare SIG 2023
   • Media coverage: Tepper Stories, Ph.D. Health Care Research Showcase, Tepper Newsletter, SMU Research Excellence
2. 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.
   • First place - 2022 INFORMS DEI Best Student Paper Award
   • Winner - 2022 INFORMS Public Sector Operations Research Best Paper Award
   • Finalist - 2022 INFORMS IBM Best Student Paper Award Competition. (Link to talk.)
   • Presented at MSOM Healthcare SIG 2022
   • Media coverage: Tepper Stories, Health Care Initiative, DEIC Blog

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.

Work-In-Progress and Other Projects

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).
3. A Nested Bayesian Model for Inferring Customer Life-Changing Events Based on Financial Transaction Data, Yanhan (Savannah) Tang, Alan Montgomery (2023). (Link to abstract.)
4. 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). Submitted.
5. 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.
6. 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