Hossein Abouee Mehrizi
Professor of Applied Operations Research
Department of Management Science & Engineering
University of Waterloo
About me
I am a Professor of applied operations research and Canada Research Chair in the Department of Management Sciences at the University of Waterloo. My main area of research is data-driven and stochastic modeling with a focus on service and healthcare applications.
Research
- Journal papers
Sun, X., S. Chai, H. Abouee-Mehrizi, 2023. Customer Scheduling in Large Service Systems Under Model Uncertainty. Operations Research.
Jiang, Y., H. Abouee-Mehrizi, J. A. Van Mieghem, 2023. Geographic Resource Pooling to Balance Waiting and Traveling: Data-driven Application to MRI Hospitals in Ontario. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.
Ripsman, D. A., F. Rahimi, H. Abouee-Mehrizi, H. Mahmoudzadeh, 2023. Light Pareto Robust Optimization for IMRT Treatment Planning. Medical Physics.
Ameli, M., M. Shirani, J. Lebacque, H. Abouee-Mehrizi, L. Leclercq, 2022. Departure Time Choice Models in Congested Transportation Systems Based on Mean Field Games. Transportation Science.
Abouee-Mehrizi, H., M. Mirjalili, V. Sarhangian, 2022. Data-Driven Platelet Inventory Management Under Uncertainty in the Remaining Shelf-Life of Units. Production and Operations Management.
Mirjalili, M., H. Abouee-Mehrizi, H., R. Barty, N. M. Heddle, V. Sarhangian, 2022. A Data-Driven Approach to Determine Daily Platelet Order Quantities at Hospitals. Transfusion.
Abouee-Mehrizi, H., A. Zare, R. Konrad, 2021. Pricing in Service Systems with Rational Balking and Abandonment of Time-Sensitive Customers. Production and Operations Management.
Abouee-Mehrizi, H., O. Baron, O. Berman, R. Chen, 2020. Adoption of Electric Vehicles in Car Sharing Market. Production and Operations Management.
Barjesteh, N., H. Abouee-Mehrizi, 2020. The Effects of Speedup and Slowdown on the Performance of Service Systems. Naval Research Logistics.
Jiang, Y., H. Abouee-Mehrizi, Y. Diao, 2020. Data-Driven Analytics to Support Scheduling of Multi-Priority Multi-Class Patients with Wait Targets. European Journal of Operational Research.
Mahmoudzadeh, H., A. Mirahmadi Shalamzari, H. Abouee-Mehrizi, 2020. Robust Multi-Class Multi-Period Patient Scheduling with Wait Time Targets. Operations Research for Health Care.
Sarhangian, V., H. Abouee-Mehrizi, O. Baron, O. Berman 2019. Threshold-Based Allocation Policies for Inventory Management of Red Blood Cells. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.
Abouee-Mehrizi, H., O. Baron, O. Berman, R. Chen, 2019. The optimal Perishable Inventory Policies with Several Classes of Customers. Production and Operations Management.
Abouee-Mehrizi, H., S. Sharma, G. Sartor, 2019. Inventory Management under Storage and Order Restrictions. Production and Operations Management.
Wang, J., H. Abouee-Mehrizi, H., O. Baron, O. Berman, 2019. Tandem Queues with Impatient Customers. Performance Evaluation.
Zare, A., H. Abouee-Mehrizi, O. Berman, 2019. Analysis of the Multi-Echelon Production Inventory System with Strategic Customers. Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences.
Sedghi, N., H. Shavandi, H. Abouee-Mehrizi, 2017. Joint Location and Pricing Decision in a Heterogeneous Market. European Journal of Operational Research.
Zare, A. G., H. Abouee-Mehrizi, O. Berman 2017. An Exact Analysis of (R,Q) Policy in a Capacitated Two-Echelon Inventory System. Operations Research Letters.
Abouee-Mehrizi, H., O. Baron, 2016. State-dependent M/G/1 queueing systems. Queueing Systems.
Abouee-Mehrizi, H., O. Berman, S. Sharma, 2015. Optimal Joint Replenishment and Proactive Transshipment Policies in a Multi-Period Inventory System. Operations Research.
Sarhangian, V., H. Abouee-Mehrizi, O. Baron, O. Berman, 2016. Reducing the age of transfused red blood cells in hospitals: ordering and allocation policies. Vox, Sanguinis.
Sadat, S., H. Abouee-Mehrizi, M. Carter, 2015. Can Hospitals Compete on Quality? Health Care Management Science.
Abouee-Mehrizi, H., O. Baron, O. Berman, 2014. Exact Analysis of Capacitated Two-Echelon Inventory Systems with Priorities. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.
Abouee-Mehrizi, H., O. Berman, M. R. Baharnemati, 2014. Designing Production-Inventory-Transportation Systems with Capacitated Cross-docks and Suppliers. Transportation Science.
Abouee-Mehrizi, H., B. Balcioglu, O. Baron, 2012. Strategies for a Single Product Multi-Class M/G/1 Queueing System. Operations Research.
Berman, O., N. Sanajian, H. Abouee-Mehrizi, 2012. Do Shareholders Really Prefer Their executives to maximize the Equity Value? A Newsvendor Case. Decision Sciences.
Abouee-Mehrizi, H., O. Berman, H. Shavandi, and A. G. Zare, 2011. An Exact Analysis of a Joint Production‐Inventory Problem in Two‐Echelon Inventory Systems. Naval Research Logistics.
Abouee-Mehrizi, H., S. Babri, O. Berman, H. Shavandi, 2011. Optimizing Capacity, Pricing and Location Decisions on a Congested Network with Balking. Mathematical Methods of Operations Research.
Sanajian, N., H. Abouee-Mehrizi, B. Balcioglu, 2010. Scheduling Policies in the M/G/1 Make-to-Stock Queue. Journal of Operational Research Society.
-Working papers:
Abouee-Mehrizi, H., M. K. Shirani, M. S. Shirani. Asymptotic Analysis of Multi-Class Advance Patient Scheduling.
Abouee-Mehrizi, H., M. Mirjalili, V. Sarhangian. Platelet Inventory Management with Approximate Dynamic Programming.
Abouee-Mehrizi, H., A. Aminoleslami, J. Darko, E. Osei, H Mahmoudzadeh. Staff Scheduling During a Pandemic: The Case of Radiation Therapy Department.
Abouee-Mehrizi, H., M. Eshraghi, M. Hu. Efficient Sampling: Sample Average Inference of Service Capacity in a Queue.
Service Activities
Associate Editor, Health Care Management Science (2020- present)
Associate Editor, Operations Research Letters (2021- present)
Associate Editor, Naval Research Logistics (2020- present)
Associate Chair for Graduate Studies and Research, Department of Management Sciences, UW (2016-2018, 2020-present)
Industry Collaborations
Over the years, I have worked with a number of organizations to help them leverage their operational and strategic data for improved performance. My recent engagements include Ontario Health, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Manitoba Health, Grand River Hospital, KidsAbility Centre for Child Development Shared Health Manitoba, Ontario Medical Association, and Hamilton Health Sciences.