Tinglong Dai

Tinglong Dai is a Professor of Operations Management & Business Analytics at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School.

He co-chairs the Johns Hopkins Workgroup on AI and Healthcare, part of the Hopkins Business of Health Initiative, and serves on the Executive Committee of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science. He holds joint faculty appointments at the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing and the Center for Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence.

Dr. Dai's research interests span across healthcare analytics, human-AI interaction, and global supply chains. His ongoing work focuses on incorporating AI into clinical workflows and advancing healthcare productivity, access, and equity. His has published extensively in leading journals such as Management Science, M&SOM, Marketing Science, and Operations Research. Dr. Dai is an Associate Editor of Management Science, M&SOM, Health Care Management Science, and Naval Research Logistics, and a Senior Editor of Production and Operations Management. He also co-edited the Handbook of Healthcare Analytics, published by John Wiley & Sons in 2018.

Dr. Dai has received numerous accolades for his research, including the Johns Hopkins Discovery Award, INFORMS Public Sector Operations Research Best Paper Award, POMS Best Healthcare Paper Award, and Wickham Skinner Early Career Award (runner-up). In 2021, he was named one of the world's top 40 business school professors under 40 by Poets & Quants.

Dr. Dai is a sought-after expert and has written and been quoted extensively in the media, including the Associated Press, Bloomberg, CNN, Fortune, The New York Times, NPR, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post. He has also appeared on national and international television, including CNBC, PBS NewsHour, and Sky News.

Dr. Dai joined Johns Hopkins in 2013 after receiving his Ph.D. in operations management and robotics from Carnegie Mellon University.