Negar Darabi is a PhD student at the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) at Virginia Tech. She received her Master’s and Bachelor’s in Industrial and System Engineering from K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. Formerly, she worked as a quality control expert for HIWEB company, one of the internet access providers in Iran. Her research interests include healthcare systems engineering, applied statistical methods, system dynamics modeling, and data analysis. Contact: darabi@vt.edu