ILBIN LEE

Research Interests

• Decision-making under uncertainty, in particular, based on batch data

• Data analytics in wildfire operations and healthcare

News

• I was on News Hour at 6 of Global News Edmonton on Aug. 20, 2023 and discussed my recent wildfire research link

• The below paper was featured in Folio: "New research could help firefighters improve their plan of attack" link

• My paper "The Effect of Wildfire Suppression Resources: Targeting Fire Groups with Enhanced Treatment Effect" is available on SSRN link

Published Papers

• Lee I., Is Separately Modeling Subpopulations Beneficial for Sequential Decision-Making?, Operations Research, available online, 2023

• Davis S., Rezaei M., Lee I., Zhang J., Greiner R., Padwal R., and McAlister F., Effective Hospital Readmission Prediction Models using Machine-Learned Features, BMC Health Services Research, 22:1415, 2022

• Xiao C., Lee I., Dai B., Schuurmans D., Szepesvari C., The Curse of Passive Data Collection in Batch Reinforcement Learning, Proceedings of The 25th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS 2022), PMLR 151:8413-8438, 2022  

• Zheng R., Xie Y., Lee I., Dehghanian A., and Serban N., Parallel Subgradient Algorithm with Block Dual Decomposition for Large-scale Optimization, European Journal of Operational Research 299(1) 60-74, 2022

• Curry S., Lee I., Ma S., and Serban N., Global Sensitivity Analysis via a Statistical Tolerance Approach, European Journal of Operational Research 296(1) 44-59, 2022

• Lee I., Curry S., and Serban N., Solving Large Batches of Linear Programs, INFORMS Journal on Computing 31(2) 302-317, 2019

• Lee I., Monahan S, Serban N, Griffin P, and Tomar S, Estimating the Cost-Savings of Preventive Dental Services Delivered to Medicaid-Enrolled Children in Six Southeastern States, Health Services Research 53(5) 3592-3616, 2018

• Zheng R., Lee I., and Serban N., Regularized Optimization with Spatial Coupling for Robust Decision Making, European Journal of Operational Research 270(3) 898-906, 2018

• Lee I., Riabov A., Sohrabi S., and Udrea O., Investigation Planning for Data Analysis, The 6th Goal Reasoning Workshop at IJCAI/FAIM-2018

• Lee I., Epelman M.A., Romeijn H.E, and Smith R.L., Simplex Algorithm for Countable-state Discounted Markov Decision Processes, Operations Research 65(4) 1029-1042, 2017

• Lee I., Epelman M.A., Romeijn H.E, and Smith R.L., Extreme Point Characterization of Constrained Nonstationary Infinite-horizon Markov Decision Processes with Finite State Space, Operations Research Letters 42 (2014) 238-245

Working Papers

• Rezaei M., Lee I., and Beverly J., The Effect of Wildfire Suppression Resources: Targeting Fire Groups with Enhanced Treatment Effect (submitted, available at SSRN)

• Rezaei M., Lee I., and Szepesvari C., Optimizing Off-Policy Evaluation in Finite Stochastic Partial Monitoring (in preparation)

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