ILBIN LEE
Assistant Professor
University of Alberta, School of Business
Department of Accounting and Business Analytics
3-21C Business Building, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6G 2R6
Tel: 780-492-7763
e-mail: (my first name) at ualberta dot ca
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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