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Nazanin, at INFORMS 2018, is determined to influence policy changes through her research in disease decision-analytic modeling

“It was a great opportunity to participate in INFORMS annual meeting 2018, a gigantic conference gathering engineers and scientists from across the globe. The contribution we as IEOR can have on different areas have a great societal impact.  The key is to not only contribute to the math but more importantly concentrate on “after the math”, translation of [ Read More ]

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Vijeta Deshpande presents his “impactful” thesis work, on MDP model for cancer detection, at INFORMS (potential employers-he is in the job market!)

Vijeta, as he heads into the job market, is motivated and excited about the potential impact he can make. His take away message from INFORMS  2018: “OR tools provide efficient way to critically evaluate even the most abstract ideas/research questions for betterment of healthcare systems. I am convinced that with increase in prevalence of OR tools in [ Read More ]

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Congratulations to Matthew Eden and Rebecca Castonguay for the INFORMS OR best paper finalist award!!

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Nazanin, Vijeta, and Matthew headed to INFORMS, Phoenix, to present their research- Good luck!

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‘Teaching game theory to high school girls also inspired me a lot’ say PhD students

Kudos to PhD students Xinmeng Zhao, Shifali Bansal, and Sonza Singh for volunteering, and a shout-out to the instructor Destinie Nock, PhD student from Prof Erin Baker’s lab, for the successful activity that inspired students and mentors alike. The activity was titled “Optimizing the Electric Grid – Let’s Bid”. The volunteers reflected on the vital role [ Read More ]

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Congratulations to Nintsoa and group on publication of their work LINK

Ambinintsoa H. Ralaidovy, Chaitra  Gopalappa, André  Ilbawi, Carel  Pretorius and Jeremy A. Lauer, Cost-effective interventions for breast cancer, cervical cancer, and colorectal cancer: new results from WHO-CHOICE, Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2018 LINK

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Rebecca Castonguay and Shifali Bansal participated in the Society for Women Engineering conference in Minneapolis

The students note that “the best thing I’ve gotten from this conference is knowing that I can advocate for myself to companies and not only are companies interviewing me but I’m interviewing the companies.” I can further confidently attest that the rewards are higher for the company that hires you, and then its just a [ Read More ]

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Nazanin’s poster at SMDM, Montreal, addresses a question of national significance- How to reach zero new HIV infections in the US?

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Nazanin’s work selected as finalist for the Lee B. Lusted student best paper award

Nazanin is invited to present her poster at the SMDM annual meeting, Oct 13-17th in Montreal, Canada. Her poster is titled “How to reach zero HIV incidence in the US? Evaluating the Fidelity of a Reinforcement Learning Algorithm to Inform Optimal Decision Paths”

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Matthew Eden’s paper finalist for OR undergraduate student paper award

Matthew invited as a finalist to present at the INFORMS annual meeting in November 2018,  at Phoenix, AZ. His working paper is titled ‘Evolving contact network algorithm: a new simulation method for modeling HIV, a disease with low prevalence but a critical public health issue in the US’