Dr. Lauren Steimle is the Harold R. and Mary Anne Nash Early Career Professor and an Assistant Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her expertise is in operations research/industrial engineering with applications to public health and medicine. Her work builds on optimization, simulation, and predictive modeling to design effective, efficient, and equitable strategies to prevent and control diseases and adverse health outcomes at both the population- and individual-levels.
Dr. Steimle received her Ph.D. and M.S.E in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan, and her Bachelor’s degree in Systems Science and Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis. She is the recipient of the Best Paper of IISE Transactions Focus Issue on Operations Engineering & Analytics, the INFORMS Service Science Best Cluster Paper Award (Finalist), and the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
Recent News
- 5/2024: New paper “The implications of using maternity care deserts to measure progress in access to obstetric care: a mixed-integer optimization analysis” with PhD student Meghan Meredith is now online at BMC Health Services Research.
- 3/2024: New paper “Modeling the spread of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 outbreaks and interventions: A case study of Nigeria” with PhD student Yuming Sun is now online at Vaccine X.
- 2/2024: Congratulations to Amaya McNealey for being awarded 1st place in the Data Science, Physiology, & Health Oral Presentation competition at the Emerging Researchers National Conference in STEM!
- 2/2024: Congratulations to Yuming Sun for his selection as an Honorable Mention in the AAAS 2024 Student E-poster Competition in Medicine and Public Health at the 2024 AAAS Annual Meeting!
- 12/2023: New pre-print “Towards Expanded Access to Cancer Care with Cost-Awareness: An Optimization Modeling Analysis of Rwanda” with PhD student Abel Sapirstein is now online!
- 11/2023: I recently gave a talk about my research at The Georgia Tech Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems’ “Health Systems: The Next Generation” 2023 Annual Forum. You can see the video here
- 11/2023: New pre-print “The implications of using maternity care deserts to measure progress in access to obstetric care: A mixed-integer optimization analysis” with PhD student Meghan Meredith is now online!
- 10/2023: Congratulations to Ph.D. student Yuming Sun for receiving the 2023 Seth Bonder Scholarship for Applied Operations Research in Health Services!
- 10/2013: New book chapter with Ph.D. student Amaya McNealey, and collaborators Gian Garcia and Wesley Marrero! Our chapter “Optimizing Interpretable Treatment and Screening Policies in Healthcare” in the Encyclopedia of Optimization is now online!
- 7/2023: New paper on Interpretable MDPs for Hypertension Treatment Planning is now online at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
- 5/2023: I presented at the IISE Annual Conference and was awarded the IISE Transactions Best Paper in the Focus Issue on Operations Engineering and Analytics for my paper “Decomposition methods for solving Markov decision processes with multiple models of the parameters”
- 5/2023: Check out this new paper, “Empirical networks for localized COVID-19 interventions using WiFi infrastructure at university campuses” now online at Frontiers in Digital Health.
- 4/2023: Ph.D. student Jingyu Li received the David Cowan Scholarship from the Georgia Chapter of HIMSS. Congrats, Jingyu!
- 4/2023: Ph.D. Student Abel Sapirstein was selected as an Awardee for both the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP) and the National Defense Science and Engineering (NDSEG) Fellowship. Congratulations, Abel!