Jiaru Bai

Jiaru Bai is an assistant professor at the Stony Brook University College of Business. She received her Ph.D. in Management from the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine. She obtained a Master's degree in Statistics from UC Irvine, a B.S. degree in Engineering from Beihang University, and a double B.S. degree in Economics from Beijing University.

Her research interests lie in the interface between operations and marketing, supply chain management, and healthcare analytics. Her recent work addresses issues in crowd-sourcing platforms. Her research projects apply economic models and statistical models to analyze the tradeoffs between cost and effectiveness in various domains for both managers and individual decision-makers. Her research has been published in academic journals such as Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Decision Sciences, European Journal of Operational Research, Gynecologic Oncology, etc.