My Research
My research aims to address the question, `How to develop novel and data-driven modeling methods that adapt to challenges in healthcare to facilitate the generation of practical policy recommendations?'
Publications
Published Works
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State discretization for continuous-state MDPs in infectious disease control
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- Suyanpeng Zhang, and Sze-Chuan Suen
- IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering, 2024
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The impact of COVID-19 vaccination rate on traffic recovery
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- Suyanpeng Zhang, Jing Jin, Han Yu, Ying Hong, Neeraj Sood, and Sze-Chuan Suen
- Scientific Reports, 2024
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Quantifying the benefits of increasing decision-making frequency for health applications with regular decision epochs
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- Suyanpeng Zhang, Sze-Chuan Suen, Vinay Sundaram, and Cynthia L Gong
- IISE Transactions, 2024
- Featured article of the May 2025 issue of the Industrial and Systems Engineer (ISE) Magazine
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Differential patterns of opioid misuse between younger and older adults – a retrospective observational study using data from South Carolina’s prescription drug monitoring program
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- Suyanpeng Zhang, Allie Silverman, Sze-Chuan Suen, Christina Andrews, and Brian K Chen
- The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 2022
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Early transplantation maximizes survival in severe acute-on-chronic liver failure: Results of a Markov decision process model
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- Suyanpeng Zhang, Sze-Chuan Suen, Cynthia L Gong, Jessica Pham, Jonel Trebicka, Christophe Duvoux, Andrew S Klein, Tiffany Wu, Rajiv Jalan, and Vinay Sundaram
- JHEP Reports, 2021
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Strategic Influence of Household Attitudes on HPV Vaccination in Kenya: A Network-Based Optimization Approach
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- Suyanpeng Zhang, Sze-Chuan Suen, and Corrina Moucheraud
- Submitted to Service Science
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Optimizing Vaccine Site Locations While Considering Travel Inconvenience and Public Health Outcomes
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- Suyanpeng Zhang, Sze-Chuan Suen, Han Yu, Maged Dessouky, and Fernando Ordonez
- Under revision, Health Care Management Science
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Extending Dynamic Origin-Destination Estimation to Understand Traffic Patterns During COVID-19
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- Han Yu, Suyanpeng Zhang, Sze-Chuan Suen, Maged Dessouky, and Fernando Ordonez
- Submitted to Journal of the Operational Research Society
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Draft Title 1
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Current status or a short abstract.