Alireza Ebrahimvandi is a doctoral student at the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) at Virginia Tech. He received his M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Tehran Polytechnic. Formerly, he worked as a data analyst for HIWEB company, one of the biggest internet access providers in Iran. He is currently working on dynamic modeling of infant mortality in state of Ohio. His research interests include system dynamics modeling, policy analysis, and simulation. [CV] Contact: alvandi@vt.edu