Saumya Sinha

I am an Assistant Professor in the Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE) department at the University of Minnestota (UMN) - Twin Cities. I joined UMN in Fall 2022, before which I was a postdoctoral scholar at Rice University and a visiting postdoctoral fellow at Houston Methodist Hospital, working in the areas of optimization and organ transplantation. I received my PhD in applied mathematics at the University of Washington, Seattle, where my dissertation focused on robust dynamic programming.

My research focuses on sequential decision-making in uncertain and dynamic environments, motivated primarily by applications in clinical decision-making, healthcare operations, and health policy. Specifically, my interests include

Methodology

• Markov decision processes

• Robust optimization

• Multiobjective optimization

• Infinite-dimensional optimization

Applications

• Organ transplantation: outcomes, allocation mechanisms, and federal policy

• Treatment planning

• Scheduling/operations in clinical settings

For interested students:

If you are a current student at UMN and interested in research at the intersection of optimization, analytics, and healthcare, please reach out to me. I am open to both undergraduate and graduate students.

If you are a prospective student interested in joining the University of Minnesota and working with me, please apply to our PhD program and indicate my name/your interests in your application. (Direct emails to me will likely not receive a reply.)