Wen Yao

Researcher
Palo Alto

Biography

Wen Yao is a researcher in the Services and Solutions Lab, focused on developing technologies for cloud-based healthcare services that can enhance streamlined patient experience. She Joined HP Labs in July 2012 after receiving her PhD in Information Sciences and Technology from Penn State University. Prior to this, she received her Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering from Tongji University in 2007, China.

 

Research interests

Business process management, health informatics, business intelligence, knowledge management, decision support systems

Publications

Journal Publications

  • Yao, W. and Kumar A. (2012), "CONFlexFlow: Integrating Flexible Clinical Pathways into Clinical Decision Support Systems using Context and Rules", Decision Support Systems (Special Issue on Healthcare modeling), [Download].
  • Kumar A. and Yao, W. (2012), "Design and Management of Flexible Process Variants using Templates and Rules", Computer in Industry (Special Issue on Managing Large Collections of Business Process Models), 63(2): 112-130. [Download] 
  • Kumar A. and Yao, W., and Chu, C.H. (2012), “Flexible Process Compliance with Semantic Constraints using Mixed-Integer Programming (MIP)”, INFORMS Journal on Computing (JOC). [Download] 
  • Yao, W. , Chu, C. H., and Li, Z. (2011), "Leveraging complex event processing for smart hospitals using RFID", Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA), 34(3):799-810. [Download]
  • Yao, W. , Chu, C. H., and Li, Z. (2011), "The Adoption and Implementation of RFID Technologies in Healthcare: A Literature Review", Journal of Medical Systems, in press, published online ahead of print, DOI: 10.1007/s10916-011-9789-8. [Download]

Selected Conference Proceedings

  • Yao, W., Kumar A., Rolia, J., Basu, S., and Singhal S. (2012), “A Context-Aware Framework for Patient Navigation and Engagement”, to appear in Proceedings of CollaborateCom'12, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, October 15-17, 2012.
  • Yao, W., Basu, S., Li, J., Stephenson, B. (2012), “Configuration and Management of Process Variants for On-boarding Customers to IT Outsourcing”, in Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2012), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
  • Yao, W., Kumar A., Rolia, J., Basu, S., and Singhal S. (2012), “A Formal Process-driven Framework for Streamlining Patient-centric Care”, in Proceedings of CAiSE’12 forum, Gdańsk, Poland.
  • Basu, S., Singhal, S., Li, J. (2012), Stephenson B. and Yao, W., “Governance Framework for IT Transformation Projects in Outsourcing”, in Proceedings of SRII Global Conference 2012, San José, CA.
  • Yao, W. and Kumar A. (2012), “Integrating Clinical Pathways into CDSS using Context and Rules – A Case Study in Heart Disease”, in Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium (IHI'12), Miami, Florida, USA, pp 611-620.
  • Kumar, A., Yao, W., Chu, C.H., and Li, Z. (2010), “Ensuring Compliance with Semantic Constraints in Process Adaptation with Rule-Based Event Processing”, in Proceedings of RuleML’10, pp 50-65. [download]
  • Yao, W., Chu, C.H., and Li, Z. (2010), “The Use of RFID in Healthcare: Benefits and Barriers”, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on RFID-Technology and Applications, pp 128-134. [download]
  • Li, Z., Chu, C. H., Yao, W., and Behr, R. (2010), “Ontology-Driven Event Detection and Indexing in Smart Spaces”, in Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Conference on Semantic Computing, pp 285-292.
  • Li, Z., Chu, C.H., and Yao, W. (2010), “Semantic Access Control for RFID-enabled Supply Chains”, the 2010 Workshop on RFID Security (RFIDsec'10 Asia), Vol. 4 of Cryptology and Information Security, IOS Press, pp 95-108.
  • Yao, W., Chu, C.H., Kumar, A., and Li, Z. (2009), “Using Ontology to Support Context Awareness in Healthcare”, in Proceedings of the 19th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS’09), December 14-15, Phoenix, AZ, USA. [download]  
  • Kumar, A. and Yao, W. (2009), “Process Materialization using Templates and Rules to Design Flexible Process Models”, in Proceedings of RuleML’09, pp 122-136. [download]
  • Parks, R., Yao, W., and Chu, C.H. (2009), “RFID Privacy Concerns: A Conceptual Analysis in the Healthcare Sector”, AMCIS 2009 Proceedings, August 6-9, San Francisco, California, USA.
  • Li, Z., Chu, C. H. and Yao, W. (2008), "SIP-RLTS: An RFID Location Tracking System Based on SIP," in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on RFID, pp. 173-182.

Professional activities

  • Reviewer of Electronic Commerce Research and Applications journal (2012)
  • Reviewer of AMIA (2012)
  • Reviewer of Decision Support Systems (DSS) journal(2011)
  • Reviewer of Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA) (2011, 2012)
  • Reviewer of CoopIS conference (2010)
  • Reviewer of National Conference of Decision Science Institute (2008, 2009)
  • Student Member of IEEE