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I am a WiSE Gabilan Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) at the University of Southern California (USC). Before joining USC, I was an Assistant Professor of ISE at Lehigh University and a Presidential and Dean Postdoctoral fellow at Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy of Carnegie Mellon University. I hold a Ph.D. in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan, where I had the privilege of being co-advised by Prof. Amy Cohn and Prof. Ruiwei Jiang. I also hold an M.S. in Systems Science and Industrial Engineering from Binghamton University and a B.S.E in Biomedical Engineering from Jordan University of Science and Technology.
My methodological research expertise and interests include data-driven optimization under uncertainty and (mixed) integer programming. My primary application areas and expertise are healthcare operations and analytics, facility location, transportation systems, and fairness-promoting optimization.
I am an Associate Editor for Transportation Science, INFORMS Journal on Computing, and Healthcare Management Science. In addition, I serve on the Early Career Editorial Advisory Board of Transportation Research Part C.
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Recent News:
My proposal, “Advancing Contextual Stochastic Optimization via Distributionally Robust Optimization Techniques,” has been recommended for sponsorship by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) under its Mathematical Optimization program.
Congratulations to PhD student, Shutian Li, on the acceptance of her paper, "Equity-promoting Integer Programming Approaches For Medical Resident Rotation Scheduling," in Health Care Management Science.
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.
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