News: 

• Our paper "A Unified Framework for Analyzing and Optimizing a Class of Convex Fairness Measures" has been published in Operations Research. 

• Our paper "Operating room-to-downstream elective surgery planning under uncertainty" has been published in the European Journal of Operational Research.

• I joined the Healthcare Management Science editorial team as an associate editor in May 2025.

• Congratulations to Dr. Man Yiu Tsang on a successful PhD dissertation Defense. May 5, 2025.

• Congratulations to PhD student Man Yiu (Tim) Tsang on the acceptance of their paper, "On the Tradeoff Between Distributional Belief and Ambiguity: Conservatism, Finite-Sample Guarantees, and Asymptotic Properties," with Dr. Shehadeh, in the INFORMS Journal on Optimization.

• I will join the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) at the University of Southern California as the Gabilan Assistant Professor of ISE in August 2025. 

• I'm honored to have received third place in the 2024 Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award.

• I am thrilled to receive an honorable mention for the 2024 INFORMS MIF Early Career Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to the theory or practice of Operations Research/Management Science (OR/MS) and service made by active members of MIF. 

• Congratulations to PhD students Shutian Li and Man Yiu (Tim) Tsang on the acceptance of their paper with Dr. Shehadeh, ``Stochastic Programming Models for a Fleet Sizing and Appointment Scheduling Problem with Random Service and Travel Times '' Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

• I joined the INFORMS Journal on Computing's editorial team as an Associate Editor in the area of Computational Modeling: Methods & Analysis in May 2024

• I joined Transportation Science's editorial team as an Associate Editor in the area of Logistics and Routing in May 2024.

• Our paper, "Stochastic optimization approaches for an operating room and anesthesiologist scheduling problem," was accepted in Operations Research in January 2024.

• I was elected vice president/president-elect of INFORMS JFIG and executive vice president of INFORMS Section on Location Analysis (SOLA). 

• I was invited to join the Early Career Editorial Advisory Board of Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies. TR-C is one of the premier journals in transportation. It has a high impact factor of 8.3 and a Citescore of 15.5. I look forward to contributing to this new role!.

• New book chapter: Shehadeh, K.S., and Snyder, L.V. (2023). Equity in Stochastic Healthcare Facility Location. In: Eiselt, H.A., Marianov, V. (eds) Uncertainty in Facility Location Problems. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 347. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-32338-6_12.

• New paper: Shehadeh, K.S., (2023). ``Reducing disparities in transportation distance in a stochastic facility location problem.''   Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies.

• New paper: Tsang, M.Y,  Shehadeh, K.S., and Curtis, F. (2023). "An In-exact Column-and-Constraint Generation Method to Solve Two-stage Robust Optimization Problems,'' Operations Research Letters. 

• New paper: Alkaabneh, F, Shehadeh, K.S., and Diabat, A. (2023). ``Routing and resource allocation in non-profit settings with equity and efficiency measures under demand uncertainty'." Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies.

• I won the 2022 INFORMS Minority Issues Forum (MIF) Paper Competition. The work awarded is the single-authored paper entitled ``Distributionally Robust Optimization Approaches for a Stochastic Mobile Facility Routing and Scheduling Problem,'' published in Transportation Science. 

• Congratulations to PhD student Man Yiu (Tim) Tsang on the acceptance of his paper with Dr. Shehadeh, “Stochastic Optimization Models for a Home Service Routing and Appointment Scheduling Problem with Random Travel and Service Times," in the European Journal of Operational Research.

• Our paper (PhD student Man Yiu Tsang and Dr. Shehadeh) "Convex Fairness Measures: Theory and Optimization,"  has been selected as a finalist in the 2022 INFORMS JFIG Paper Competition at the 2022 Annual INFORMS Meeting.

• Our paper “Operating Room-to-Downstream Elective Surgery Planning Under Uncertainty” has been selected as a finalist for the 2022 INFORMS Service Science Best Cluster Paper Award at the 2022 Annual INFORMS Meeting.

• New paper: Shehadeh, K.S. (2022). ``Distributionally Robust Optimization Approaches for a Stochastic Mobile Facility Routing and Scheduling Problem.'' Transportation Science.

• New paper: Shehadeh, K.S., Tucker, E.L. (2022). ``Stochastic Programming and Distributionally Robust Optimization Approaches for Location and Inventory Prepositioning of Disaster Relief Supplies." Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies.

• New paper:  Shehadeh, K.S. (2022). ``Data-driven distributionally robust surgery planning in flexible operating rooms over a Wasserstein ambiguity.'' Computers & Operations Research: 105927.

• Congratulations to ISE PhD student Man Yiu (Tim) Tsang for winning the 2022 Van Hoesen Family Best Publication award, which recognizes excellence in research, for his paper: Stochastic Optimization Models for a Home Service Routing and Appointment Scheduling Problem with Random Travel and Service Times.