Events

Con­ven­ing schol­ars, prac­ti­tion­ers, and pol­i­cy­mak­ers to advance the fron­tiers of AI, health­care, and glob­al operations

Upcom­ing · Featured

Hopkins AI and Healthcare Convening

An HBHI × DSAI Cap­stone. The Johns Hop­kins Work­group on AI and Health­care meets in per­son for the first time, co-host­ed with the Data Sci­ence and AI Insti­tute (DSAI).
📅 Thurs­day, June 4, 2026, 9:00 a.m.–12:00 noon 📍 Johns Hop­kins at Mt. Wash­ing­ton (DSAI), Baltimore
Co-chaired by Tin­g­long Dai and Risa Wolf
Pro­gram
Wel­com­ing remarks by Dan Pol­sky (HBHI) and Mark Dredze (DSAI), a Light­ning Round Show­case of med­ical-AI research from across Med­i­cine, Pub­lic Health, Engi­neer­ing, Busi­ness, and DSAI, and a clos­ing net­work­ing lunch. Full speak­er line­up to be announced.
Upcom­ing · Featured

Envisioning the Future of Global Supply Chains

A Johns Hop­kins Sesqui­cen­ten­ni­al (JH150) work­shop on the future of glob­al sup­ply chains.

📅
Thurs­day, Sep­tem­ber 17, 2026


📍 Johns Hop­kins University
Co-orga­nized by Tin­g­long Dai and Alessan­dro Rebucci

Pro­gram
Full pro­gram and speak­ers to be announced.
Upcom­ing

Reskilling with AI

Mod­er­at­ing the pan­el at Lead­ing with AI.
📅 May 28, 2026🎙️ Tin­g­long Dai, Moderator

II

Conferences & Workshops

Major events orga­nized or co-chaired across AI, oper­a­tions, health­care, and pub­lic policy

2025
Decem­ber
2025

WOW 2.0: The Second Washington Operations Workshop

◆ Wash­ing­ton, DC
Co-chaired with Maxime Cohen (McGill University)
Theme: “AI in Sup­ply Chains.” A full-day work­shop fea­tur­ing four pan­els cov­er­ing the intel­li­gence, exe­cu­tion, strat­e­gy, and infra­struc­ture lay­ers of AI-dri­ven operations.
  • Hackathon-style research break­outs (“vibe researching”)
  • Col­leagues from 20+ uni­ver­si­ties, indus­try, and pol­i­cy circles
20+ Uni­ver­si­ties
4 Pan­els
Full Day

2025
May
2025

2025 POMS Doctoral Consortium

◆ Atlanta, GA
Chaired the flag­ship doc­tor­al event of the Pro­duc­tion and Oper­a­tions Man­age­ment Soci­ety. Four pan­els with lead­ing schol­ars addressed the job mar­ket, teach­ing, tenure, and long-term aca­d­e­m­ic careers. 
Flag­ship Event
4 Pan­els

2024
Jan­u­ary
2024

WOW 1.0: The Inaugural Washington Operations Workshop

◆ Wash­ing­ton, DC
Co-chaired with Ho-Yin Mak (George­town University)
Theme: “Rethink­ing Glob­al Sup­ply Chains in the Era of AI.” Four pan­el dis­cus­sions with atten­dees drawn from sev­en DC-area universities. 
Inau­gur­al Edition
7 Uni­ver­si­ties

2022
2022–23
2023

National Academies of Sciences (NASEM) Workshops

◆ Wash­ing­ton, DC
  • Plan­ning Com­mit­tee: “Sup­ply Chain Dis­rup­tions: Impacts on Vul­ner­a­ble Com­mu­ni­ties” (2023)
  • Plan­ning Com­mit­tee: PPE/PPT Stan­dard­iza­tion for Resilient Pub­lic Health Sup­ply Chain (2022–2023)
Nation­al Academies
Pub­lic Health

III

Johns Hopkins Symposium on Healthcare Operations

Chair, 2016–present. A recur­ring forum con­ven­ing schol­ars and deci­sion-mak­ers in health­care operations

2021
3rd

Sym­po­sium

Octo­ber 15, 2021
“Build­ing Resilient Health­care Sup­ply Chains for the Next Pandemic”
Speak­ers from
Har­vard · MIT · UCLA · Carnegie Mel­lon · CDC · FDA · HHS

2019
2nd

Sym­po­sium

April 26, 2019
“Health Orga­ni­za­tion­al Design”
Speak­ers from
Stan­ford · Lon­don Busi­ness School · Whar­ton · Johns Hop­kins · Boston Uni­ver­si­ty · CMS

2016
1st

Sym­po­sium

Octo­ber 1, 2016
“When Organ Trans­plan­ta­tion Meets Oper­a­tions Research”
Speak­ers from
Stan­ford · Chica­go Booth · MIT · Geor­gia Tech · Rice · Carnegie Mel­lon · UCSF · NYU · Johns Hopkins

IV

Professional Service

Con­fer­ence orga­ni­za­tion, pro­gram com­mit­tees, and clus­ter chairs

2021–23
Pro­gram Committee
EAAMO (Equi­ty and Access in Algo­rithms, Mech­a­nisms, and Optimization)
2021, 23
Health­care Con­fer­ence Clus­ter Chair
INFORMS
2022
AI in Health­care Clus­ter Chair
INFORMS Annu­al Meeting
2021
MSOM Clus­ter Chair
INFORMS Annu­al Meeting
2021
Health­care SIG Chair
MSOM Con­fer­ence
2022
Com­mit­tee’s Choice Ses­sions Chair
CORS-INFORMS
2017–18
Clus­ter Chair & Pro­gram Committee
INFORMS / POMS
2009, 17
Work­shop Pro­gram Committee
COREDEMA at IJCAI-17 · QRASA at IJCAI-09

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