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PhD Student Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences at the Technion Google Scholar: Click here CV: Click here Web: https://cai-junyang.github.io/ Email: junyang.cai@campus.technion.ac.il |
My name is Junyang Cai, and I am currently a doctoral student in the Faculty of Data and Decision Sciences at the Technion. My advisor is Prof Noa Zychlinski. My research direction is operations management in healthcare.
I passed my doctoral qualifying examination on August 20, 2025.
My paper Expanding naloxone accessibility: A lifesaver or a risky setback? won the Excellent Paper Award of the 2025 Doctoral Student Forum of Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University on July 10, 2025.
My paper A decision-making framework for supporting an equitable global vaccine distribution under humanitarian perspectives won the Excellent Paper Award of the 2024 Doctoral Student Forum of Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University on July 11, 2024. The work of this paper corresponds to my master’s thesis Greater disaster triggered by inequity: Equitable vaccine distribution under humanitarian perspectives.
’*’ means the corresponding author.
Cai J*, Zychlinski N. When AI is not enough: Reducing diagnostic errors with radiologist oversight. Service Science, forthcoming.
Cai J, Xu R, Zhou J*, Gu H. Dynamic-spread assessment and kink detection in the early mpox outbreak. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2025, 143:115996.
Cai J, Zhou J*. How many asymptomatic cases were unconfirmed in the US COVID-19 pandemic? The evidence from a serological survey. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, 2022, 164:112630.