RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research Assistant, OSU, School of Industrial Engineering and Management, Aug. 2023 - Jul. 2026
Dissertation Title: “Fractional Programming Framework for Cluster Discovery in Healthcare Analytics”
Advisor: Dr. B. Balasundaram
- Develop fractional programming models to identify high-risk disease clusters in comorbidity graphs for EHR data.
- Design combinatorial algorithms, exact (logic-based), and heuristic optimization methods.
- Prove the NP-completeness of the core problem and several variations.
- Collaborate with clinicians to validate results.
Research Assistant, OSU, Center for Health Systems Innovation, Jun. 2022 - Aug. 2022
- Processed and cleaned Electronic Health Record datasets.
- Processed Oracle Health clinical data for NLP tasks using BERT, sentiment analysis, and tokenization.
- Designed a web user-friendly interface for NLP tasks.
Research Assistant, AUT, Mathematics and Computer Science Department, Feb. 2020 - Feb. 2021
Thesis Title: “Surrogate Constraint Optimization”
Advisor: Dr. S. A. MirHassani
- Conducted in-depth research on aggregation methods, their properties, and applications in Facility Location Problems.
- Developed optimization methods like Benders decomposition and the p-norm approach, benchmark against CPLEX on TSPs.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Primary Instructor, OSU, School of Industrial Engineering and Management, Jan. 2024 - Jun. 2025
- Designed and delivered course materials for over 395 students across three semesters.
- Held office hours and provided student support.
- Managed grading and feedback.
Course Taught: IEM 3503, Engineering Economic Analysis
Teaching Assistant, OSU, School of Industrial Engineering and Management, Jan. 2022 - May 2026
- Grade assignments, projects, and exams. Proctored exams.
- Hold regular office hours to support student learning.
Courses:
IEM 1412: Introduction to Computer Programming for Engineers
IEM 5063: Network Optimization
IEM 5013: Introduction to Optimization
IEM 3503: Engineering Economic Analysis
IEM 4013: Operations Research
IEM 5203: Facility Location, Warehousing, and Transportation
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Vice-President and Treasurer, Oklahoma State University INFORMS Student Chapter, Aug. 2022 - Aug. 2023
- Scheduled and organized events, including seminars and competitions.
- Managed the chapter’s finances, including budgeting, expense tracking, and financial reporting.
Supply Chain Intern, School of International Business, Universite Le Havre Normandie, Sep. 2019 - Dec. 2019
- Designed a decentralized supply chain model with discount plans to improve coordination between suppliers and retailers.
Data Analyst Intern, Statistics and Information Department, CLS Organization, May 2015 - Sep. 2015
- Collected and analyzed data, designed questionnaires, and prepared monthly and seasonal statistical reports.
- Defined and standardized key statistical vocabularies.