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Branch-and-Price for Prescriptive Contagion Analytics

A. Jacquillat, M. Rame, K. Wang, M. L. Li

Operations Research

2025

Learning to cover: online learning and optimization with irreversible decisions

A. Jacquillat, M. L. Li

Major Revision at Management Science

2025

Statistical Inference for Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Randomized Experiments

K. Imai, M. L. Li

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

2024

Interpretable Matrix Completion: A Discrete Optimization Approach

D. Bertsimas, M. L. Li

INFORMS Journal on Computing

2023

Data-Driven Vaccine Development with Janssen

D. Bertsimas, M. L. Li, X. Liu, J. Xu, N. Khan

INFORMS Journal of Applied Analytics

2022

🥇INFORMS Edelman Laureate

Ensemble Forecasts of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the US

E. L. Ray, N. Wattanachit, J. Niemi, A. H. Kanji, K. House, E. Y. Cramer, et al

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

2021

Forecasting COVID-19 and Analyzing the Effect of Government Interventions

M. L. Li, H. T. Bouardi, O. S. Lami, T. Trikalinos, N. Trichakis, D. Bertsimas

Operations Research

2021

🥇INFORMS IAAA Award

Evaluation of Individual and Ensemble Probabilistic Forecasts of COVID-19 Mortality in the United States

E. Y. Cramer, E. L. Ray, K. V. Lopez, J. Bracher, A. Brennen, A. J. Castro, A. Georgescu, et al

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

2021

Prescriptive Analytics for Reducing 30-day Hospital Readmissions after General Surgery

D. Bertsimas, M. L. Li, I. C. Paschalidis, T. Wang

PloS one

2020

Pricing for Heterogeneous Products: Analytics for Ticket Reselling

M. Alley, M. Biggs, R. Hariss, C. Herrmann, M. L. Li, G. Perakis

Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

2019

Balancing optimality and diversity: Human-centered decision making through generative curation

M. L. Li, S. Zhu

Submitted to Manufacturing & Service Operations Management

2025

Slowly Varying Regression Under Sparsity

D. Bertsimas, O. S. Lami, V. Digalakis, M. L. Li

Operations Research

2025

A machine learning algorithm predicting risk of dilating VUR among infants with hydronephrosis using UTD classification

H. H. S. Wang, M. L. Li, D. Cahill, J. Panagides, T. Logvinenko, J. Chow, C. Nelson

Journal of Pediatric Urology

2024

Experimental Evaluation of Individualized Treatment Rules

K. Imai, M. L. Li

Journal of American Statistical Association

2023

Robust Inference for Machine Learning with Observational Data

D. Bertsimas, K. Imai, M. L. Li

R&R at Journal of Machine Learning Research

2022

Stochastic Cutting Planes for Data-Driven Optimization

D. Bertsimas, M. L. Li

INFORMS Journal on Computing

2021

Short-term forecasting of COVID-19 in Germany and Poland during the second wave – a preregistered study

J. Bracher, D. Wolffram, J. Deuschel, J. Gorgen, J. Ketterer, A. Ullrich, et al

Nature Communications

2021

Duration-of-stay storage assignment under uncertainty

M. L. Li, E. Wolf, D. Wintz

ICLR 2020

2020

Selecting Children with VUR Who are Most Likely to Benefit from Antibiotic Prophylaxis: Application of Machine Learning to RIVUR

D. Bertsimas, M. L. Li, C. Estrada, C. Nelson, H. H. S. Wang

Journal of Urology

2020

A Hierarchy of Graph Neural Networks Based on Learnable Local Features

M. L. Li, M. Dong, J. Zhou, A. M. Rush

ArXiv

2019

Cramming Contextual Bandits for On-policy Statistical Evaluation

Z. Jia, K. Imai, M. L. Li

Submitted to Management Science

2025

When Loss is More: Optimizing Prescription Alerts under Fatigue

M. L. Li, H. Piri

Submitted to Management Science

2025

🥇CBLS Best Paper Award

Benchmarking large language models on cmexam-a comprehensive chinese medical exam dataset

J. Liu, P. Zhou, Y. Hua, D. Chong, Z. Tian, A. Liu, H. Wang, C. You, Z. Guo, L. Zhu, M. L. Li

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

2024

Statistical Performance Guarantee for Subgroup Identification with Generic Machine Learning

K. Imai, M. L. Li

R&R at Biometrika

2023

THEMIS: a framework for cost-benefit analysis of COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions

D. Bertsimas, M. L. Li, S. Soni

Major Revision at MSOM

2022

From predictions to prescriptions: A data-driven response to COVID-19

D. Bertsimas, L. Boussioux, R. C. Wright, A. Delarue, V. Digalakis, A. Jacquillat, D. Kitane, G. Lukin, M. L. Li, et al

Health Care Management Science

2021

🥇INFORMS Pierskalla Award

Where to locate COVID-19 mass vaccination facilities?

D. Bertsimas, V. Digalakis, A. Jacquillat, M. L. Li, A. Previero

Naval Research Logistics

2021

🥇NRL Kuhn Award

Fast Exact Matrix Completion: A Unified Optimization Framework for Matrix Completion

D. Bertsimas, M. L. Li

Journal of Machine Learning Research

2020

Targeted Workup after Initial Febrile Urinary Tract Infection: Using a Novel Machine Learning Model to Identify Children Most Likely to Benefit from Voiding Cystourethrogram

H. H. S. Wang, M. L. Li, J. Dunn, D. Zhuo, D. Bertsimas, C. Estrada

Journal of Urology

2019

Scalable Holistic Linear Regression

D. Bertsimas, M. L. Li

Operations Research Letters

2018

©2025 by Michael Lingzhi Li

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