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Wonderful to participate in a high school teacher training session with Prof Shannon Roberts and PhD students Sonza Singh and Nazanin

Vijeta will develop Markov processes based analytic models for predicting disease risks including acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic hearth disease, and risks of indoor air pollution.  He will work closely with experts in statistics, public policy, and software development.  Avenir Health is a non profit organization in Connecticut that works closely with multiple United Nations agencies and [ Read More ]

“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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

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

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 ]