{"id":44162,"date":"2026-08-20T10:58:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/?page_id=44162"},"modified":"2026-08-20T10:58:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T14:58:45","slug":"michael-lingzhi-li","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/michael-lingzhi-li\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Lingzhi Li"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"xmsonormal\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cise\/files\/2026\/08\/2e7ccd_3c2972c6a52748e49debff2ccaf9bbc4mv2.jpg-2-463x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"347\" class=\" wp-image-44163 alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/files\/2026\/08\/2e7ccd_3c2972c6a52748e49debff2ccaf9bbc4mv2.jpg-2-463x636.jpg 463w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/files\/2026\/08\/2e7ccd_3c2972c6a52748e49debff2ccaf9bbc4mv2.jpg-2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/>Michael Lingzhi Li<\/strong> is an Assistant Professor in the Technology and Operations Management unit at <span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">Harvard Business School. <\/span>Professor Li\u2019s research focuses on the end-to-end development of decision algorithms based on machine learning, causal inference and operations research. He examines the implementation of such algorithms in hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and public health organizations, and their potential to fundamentally transform healthcare operations.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\">He co-leads the Data Science &amp; AI Operations Lab at the D3 Institute and is a Faculty Affiliate of the Harvard Data Science Initiative. He also<\/span> serves as the co-Director of the Computational Healthcare Analytics Program at the Boston Children&#8217;s Hospital and the Chief Data Scientist at Waffle Labs.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wixui-rich-text__text\"><\/span>Professor Li is the recipient of several awards including the 2022 INFORMS Edelman Finalist, the 2021 INFORMS Pierskalla Award, and the 2021 Innovative Applications in Analytics Award. He holds a PhD in Operations Research and a Master\u2019s in Business Analytics from MIT, along with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Cambridge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Lingzhi Li is an Assistant Professor in the Technology and Operations Management unit at Harvard Business School. Professor Li\u2019s research focuses on the end-to-end development of decision algorithms based on machine learning, causal inference and operations research. He examines the implementation of such algorithms in hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and public health organizations, and their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24994,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebars.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24994"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44165,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/44162\/revisions\/44165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}