Tinglong Dai, PhD
Bernard T. Ferrari Professor of Business
Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Johns Hopkins School of Nursing
Tinglong Dai is the Bernard T. Ferrari Professor at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, specializing in Operations Management and Business Analytics. He is a member of the Johns Hopkins University Council and serves on the leadership team of the Hopkins Business of Health Initiative. He also co-leads the University’s Bloomberg Distinguished Professorship Cluster on Global Advances in Medical Artificial Intelligence. As a co-chair of the Johns Hopkins Workgroup on AI and Healthcare, his current work focuses on integrating AI into clinical workflows and improving productivity, access, and equity in healthcare delivery. He joined Carey in 2013 after receiving a PhD in Operations Management/Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University.
As a renowned expert in healthcare analytics and global supply chains, Professor Dai has been quoted hundreds of times in the media, including Associated Press, Bloomberg, CNN, Fortune, New York Times, NPR, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post, and has appeared on national and international TV such as BBC News, CNBC, and PBS NewsHour. In 2021, he was named as one of the World's Best 40 Under 40 Business School Professors by Poets & Quants.
Professor Dai's research interests span across healthcare, human-AI interaction, global supply chains, and marketing-operations interfaces. His work has been published in leading journals such as Management Science, M&SOM, Marketing Science, Operations Research, Journal of Marketing Research, NEJM AI, and npj Digital Medicine, and has been recognized by 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). He is an Associate Editor of Management Science, M&SOM, npj Digital Medicine, Service Science, Health Care Management Science, and Naval Research Logistics, a member of the Editorial Board of Marketing Science, and a Senior Editor of INFORMS Journal on Data Science and Production and Operations Management.
In 2023, Professor Dai was elected as Vice President of Marketing, Communications, and Outreach for INFORMS, the world's largest professional association for decision and data sciences. At Johns Hopkins, he holds joint faculty appointments across the School of Nursing, the Data Science and AI Institute, and the Center for Digital Health and Artificial Intelligence.
