Teaching

At Johns Hop­kins, I have been teach­ing Oper­a­tions Man­age­ment (MBA core) and Sup­ply and Ser­vice Con­tract­ing (MBA elec­tive) since Spring 2014. Pre­vi­ous­ly, I taught Finan­cial State­ment Analy­sis (under­grad­u­ate-lev­el) an MBA Base­Camp (required MBA-lev­el) at Carnegie Mellon.

Courses Developed and Taught at Johns Hopkins University

BU.920.624 Data Sci­ence: Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

Media Cov­er­age:

Poets & Quants: “Learn­ing AI ‘From Its Core’: Inside Pro­fes­sor Tin­g­long Dai’s Course At Johns Hop­kins Carey Busi­ness School”

OR/MS Today: “Why AI Should Be a Required Course for Every Grad­u­ate Pro­gram”

Since its incep­tion in the 1950s, arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence (AI) has evolved through var­i­ous com­pet­ing ideas and tech­niques from mul­ti­ple dis­ci­plines, includ­ing com­put­er sci­ence, eco­nom­ics, ethics, lin­guis­tics, math­e­mat­ics, oper­a­tions research, phi­los­o­phy, psy­chol­o­gy, and sta­tis­tics. Since 2012, deep learn­ing has tak­en cen­ter stage in AI, expand­ing its appli­ca­tions to vir­tu­al­ly every indus­try and sec­tor. The launch of Chat­G­PT in Novem­ber 2022 marked anoth­er mile­stone in AI with the emer­gence of gen­er­a­tive AI (GenAI), which some have called the “iPhone moment” of AI.

This course demys­ti­fies AI by intro­duc­ing key con­cepts, includ­ing its math­e­mat­i­cal and com­pu­ta­tion­al foun­da­tions, eco­nom­ic forces, and role in the busi­ness world. Stu­dents will learn how to devel­op pre­dic­tive and gen­er­a­tive AI appli­ca­tions that trans­form struc­tured and unstruc­tured data into tools that cre­ate busi­ness and human val­ue. Empha­sis is placed on devel­op­ing AI strate­gies in var­i­ous busi­ness sce­nar­ios, such as oper­a­tions and sup­ply chain man­age­ment, mar­ket­ing, and mar­ket­place design. The course will also cov­er the inte­gra­tion of AI into busi­ness work­flows to improve pro­duc­tiv­i­ty, access, and equi­ty. In addi­tion, stu­dents will devel­op AI lead­er­ship skills that syn­the­size human and non-human intel­li­gence, with an under­stand­ing of the inner work­ings and lim­i­ta­tions of AI, includ­ing how AI can rein­force or mit­i­gate human bias­es. By the end of the course, stu­dents will be pre­pared to lead AI ini­tia­tives that dri­ve inno­va­tion and effi­cien­cy across mul­ti­ple busi­ness domains.

 

BU.610.730 Con­tract­ing: Incen­tive Design and Ana­lyt­ics (aka Sup­ply and Ser­vice Con­tract­ing), 2015–2020

This course is an advanced elec­tive course in the Enter­prise Risk Man­age­ment con­cen­tra­tion that empha­sizes: (a) the role of incen­tives with­in and between orga­ni­za­tions; (b) the prin­ci­pal-agent the­o­ry, includ­ing opti­mal con- tract­ing analy­sis in the pres­ence of moral haz­ard and/or adverse selec­tion; © an inte­grat­ed view that com­bines eco­nom­i­cal, oper­a­tional, legal, and polit­i­cal per­spec­tives; (d) prac­tice con­tract­ing and pro­cure­ment knowl­edge, includ­ing the Fed­er­al Acqui­si­tion Reg­u­la­tions (FAR). In teach­ing the course, I uti­lize and devel­op edu­ca­tion­al sim­u­la­tion games and a unique project to pro­vide stu­dents with refresh­ing and trans­ferrable learn­ing experiences.

 

Courses Revised and Taught at Johns Hopkins University

BU.912.611 Oper­a­tions Man­age­ment (Full-Time MBA Core Course), 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

BU.680.620 Oper­a­tions Man­age­ment (Flex­i­ble MBA Core Course), 2014–2017, 2021

With­in a man­u­fac­tur­ing or ser­vice orga­ni­za­tion, oper­a­tions pro­vide the pow­er nec­es­sary for orches­trat­ing tech­nol­o­gy and resources in cre­at­ing prod­ucts and ser­vices to meet the needs of end con­sumers. Oper­a­tions man­age­ment, accord­ing­ly, con­sists of ideas for shap­ing and inno­vat­ing an organization’s busi­ness mod­el. This course pro­vides a con­cep­tu­al and action­able intro­duc­tion to oper­a­tions man­age­ment and cov­ers a ​wide​ range of top­ics,​ includ­ing oper­a­tions strat­e­gy, process ​map­ping and ​design, queu­ing the­o­ry, inven­to­ry man­age­ment, lean man­u­fac­tur­ing, and rev­enue management​, uni­fied by a thought frame­work known as “the oper­a­tions prism”​ (flows, vari­abil­i­ty, and buffers).​​ ​By ​tak­ing ​a process view of val­ue-added func­tions that lead to an under­stand­ing of how to make ​oper­a­tions ​design choic­es,​ ​​stu­dents will acquire ana­lyt­i­cal and strate­gic think­ing skills cru­cial for ​managing​ 21st-cen­tu­ry operations.