Fellows
Michelle Alvarado
Topic: Healthcare Delivery
Date: January 2015 – July 2017
Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Florida
Amber Elkins
Topic: Healthcare Delivery
Date: January 2016 – Present
Current Position: Research Scientist, TAMU School of Veterinary Medicine
Yan Li
Topic: Healthcare Delivery
Date: September 2014 – May 2015
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Hospital
Bo Zeng
Topic: Healthcare Delivery
Date: January 2007 – February 2008
Current Position: Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering , University of Pittsburg
Ayten Turkcan
Topic: Railroad Transportation
Date: January 2004 – December 2005
Current Position: Senior Operations Research Scientist, New York City Fire Department
Ph.D Students
Sulki Park
Thesis Title: Post-Acute Care
Institution: Texas A&M University
Graduation Year: 2020
Maryam Khatami
Thesis Title: Stochastic Optimization of Inpatient Discharge Processes
Institution: Texas A&M University
Graduation Year: 2019
Ashkan Hassani
Thesis Title: Capacity Planning for Post-Acute and Long Term Care Services
Institution: Texas A&M University
Graduation Year: 2019
Ineen Sultana
Thesis Title: Modeling Referral Patterns to Post-Acute Care
Institution: Texas A&M University
Graduation Year: 2019
Julie Hammett
Thesis Title: Remote Healthcare
Institution: Texas A&M University
Graduation Year: 2019
Josef Zapletal
Thesis Title: Multi-modeling of Infectious Disease Vectors
Institution: Texas A&M University
Graduation Year: 2020
Iqra Ejaz
Thesis Title: Optimal Condition-based Maintenance of Degrading Servers
Institution: Texas A&M University
Graduation Year: 2019
Yan Li
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Public Health, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Thesis Title: Optimizing Patient Access in Healthcare
Institution: Purdue University
Graduation Year: 2014
Ji Lin
Current Position: Data Scientist at Yiguo
Thesis Title: Optimal Sequential Clinical Scheduling and Approximate Dynamic Programming
Institution: Purdue University
Graduation Year: 2012
Santanu Chakraborty
Current Position: Senior Director, Advertising Effectiveness at NBCUniversal Media
Thesis Title: Scheduling and Maintenance Problems in Clinical Healthcare Delivery
Institution: Purdue University
Graduation Year: 2010
Feng Lin
Current Position: Director, Health Economics & Outcomes Research at Daiichi Sankyo
Thesis Title: Optimal Control Problems in Public Health
Institution: Purdue University
Graduation Year: 2010
Renata Konrad
Current Position: Associate Professor of Operations and Industrial Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Thesis Title: Modeling Inpatient Flow from Hospital Information Systems
Institution: Purdue University
Graduation Year: 2009
PoChing DeLaurentis
Current Position: Research Scientist, Purdue University
Thesis Title: Hospital Stockpiling Problems for Influenza Pandemic
Institution: Purdue University
Graduation Year: 2009
Shengyong Wang
Current Position: Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Akron
Thesis Title: Robust Supervision and Condition Based Control for Single-Unit Resource Allocation
Institution: Purdue University
Graduation Year: 2006
Jianhong Qiao
Current Position: Manager, Supply Chain Analytics and Operations Research at Bain & Company
Thesis Title: Vulnerability Assessment and Mitigation for Large-Scale Water Infrastructure
Institution: Purdue University
Graduation Year: 2005
Song Foh Chew
Current Position: Professor of Mathematics, Southern Illinois University
Thesis Title: Liveness Enforcing Supervision for Automated Systems with Process Synchronization
Institution: Purdue University
Graduation Year: 2005
Widodo Sulistyono
Current Position: Business Transformation Global Program Manager, Dell
Thesis Title: Supervisory Control and Operational Robustness for Complex Resource Allocation Systems
Institution: Purdue University
Graduation Year: 2004
Nagi Gebraeel
Current Position: Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Thesis Title: Vibro-Acoustical Condition Monitoring of Rolling Element Thrust Bearings for Maintenance Management
Institution: Purdue University
Graduation Year: 2003
Masters Students
Maria Correa
Current Position: Health Systems Engineer, Dell Medical School UT Austin
Thesis Title: Clinical Inertia and Population Health for Diabetes Care: An Agent Based Model
Institution: Texas A&M University
Graduation Year: 2017
Karla Gonzalez
Thesis Title: Activity Recognition from Accelerometer Data
Institution: Texas A&M University
Graduation Year: 2017
Ramez Ayoub
Current Position: Business Strategy Consultant, Accenture
Thesis Title: Prediction Tool for Hospital Readmissions
Institution: Texas A&M University
Graduation Year: 2013
Stephen Steidle
Current Position: Senior Consulting Analyst, Cigna
Thesis Title: Sequential Scheduling with Reentrant
Institution: Texas A&M University
Graduation Year: 2013
Manan Javeri
Current Position: Head of Expansion, UberEATS
Thesis Title: Rotation Planning and Scheduling for Medical Resident Education
Institution: Texas A&M University
Graduation Year: 2011
Sara Shashaani
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering, North Carolina State University
Thesis Title: Chemotherapy Patient Scheduling with Uncertainty
Institution: Purdue University
Graduation Year: 2011
Krishna Jayakumar
Current Position: Senior Engagement Manager, ThreatMetrix
Thesis Title: Petri Net Based Simulation Modeling to Analyze Emergency Department Diversion
Institution: Purdue University
Graduation Year: 2010
Narayanan Varadarajan
Current Position: Director Commercial Limit Manager, American Express
Thesis Title: Emergency Department Analysis Using Petri Nets
Institution: Purdue University
Graduation Year: 2008
Charlie Spry
Thesis Title: Analysis of Surgical Instrument Processing
Institution: Purdue University
Graduation Year: 2006
Jonathan Turner
Current Position: Director of Perioperative Services at University Health Care System
Thesis Title: Configuring Damaged Water Systems for Optimal Distribution with Transport Costs
Institution: Purdue University
Graduation Year: 2006
Guruprasad Sankaranarayanan
Current Position: VP Operations and Innovation – OYO Rooms
Thesis Title: Predicting Patient No-Show for Medical Appointments
Institution: Purdue University
Graduation Year: 2006
Kristy Crist
Current Position: Senior Director, Program & Change Management at TIAA
Thesis Title: Scheduling Production and Engineering Lots in Semiconductor Wafer Fabs
Institution: Purdue University
Graduation Year: 2005
Janet Bensman
Current Position: Engineer at Honda of America
Thesis Title: The Effects of Flexibility on Supply Chain Vulnerability
Institution: Purdue University
Graduation Year: 2004
Jong-hyun Ryu
Thesis Title: A Study of the Interactions Between the Shifting Bottleneck Scheduling and the Resource Order Deadlock Avoidance Policy in a Semi-Conductor Reentrant Flow-Line
Institution: Purdue University
Graduation Year: 2004
Vijay Parmeshwaran
Current Position: Senior Principal, IQVIA
Thesis Title: Neural Net Models for Bearing Condition Monitoring
Institution: Purdue University
Graduation Year: 2003
Asima Mishra
Current Position: Team Lead, iPhone Product Team, Apple
Thesis Title: Evaluating the Performance of Cross-Docks: A Data Envelopment Analysis Based Approach
Institution: Purdue University
Graduation Year: 2003
Jill Baumann
Thesis Title: Performance Analysis of Cross-Docking Centers
Institution: Purdue University
Graduation Year: 2002
Rong Li
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Management, Syracuse University
Thesis Title: Decision Models for Large Scale Condition Monitoring
Institution Purdue University
Graduation Year: 2001
Arunabh Barua
Thesis Title: An Investigation of the Interaction between Scheduling and Structural Control Policies in Automated Manufacturing
Institution: Purdue University
Graduation Year: 2001
Sanjeev Nanda
Current Position: Analytics Leader at BMO Financial Group
Thesis Title: Efficiency Analysis of Deadlock Avoidance Policies for Flexible Manufacturing Systems
Institution: Purdue University
Graduation Year: 1998
Nagi Gebraeel
Thesis Title: Deadlock Avoidance in Real-Time FMS Tool Allocation
Institution: Purdue University
Graduation Year: 1998
Chris Mullinax
Current Position: Mathematics Teacher, Porter-Guad School, Charlston
Thesis Title: Optimal Patient Assignments in Large Scale Intensive Care Nurseries
Institution: Purdue University
Graduation Year: 1998