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Jim Dai is the Leon C. Welch Professor of Engineering at Cornell University's School of Operations Research and Information Engineering (ORIE). He previously held the Chandler Family Chair at Georgia Institute of Technology (1990–2012) and serves as a Special Term Professor at Tsinghua University and a Visiting Professor at National University of Singapore. His research focuses on applied probability models for service systems, healthcare operations, and transportation networks. He holds a B.S. and M.S. from Nanjing University and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Stanford University.
Research interests include stochastic models for resource allocation in processing networks, healthcare systems, and ridesharing networks. His work emphasizes fluid and diffusion models, Stein’s method, and reinforcement learning. Awards include the Erlang Prize (1998), ACM SIGMETRICS Achievement Award (2018), and the John von Neumann Theory Prize (2024). He is Editor-in-Chief of Mathematics of Operations Research and a Fellow of INFORMS and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
Teaching spans Markov chains, stochastic processes (both undergraduate and graduate levels), and optimization. Service roles include editorial positions at journals like Stochastic Systems and advisory roles at Singapore University of Technology and Design.
