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. She is also the Co-Lead of the Data Science, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence Pillar of the Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta Pediatric Technology Center. 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 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.
News
- 10/2025: New pre-print with PhD candidate Jingyu Li, “Estimating Realized Access to Obstetric Care in Georgia: A Discrete Choice Modeling Analysis” is now online
- 10/2025: Congratulations to PhD student Abel Sapirstein for being awarded the 2025 INFORMS Seth Bonder Scholarship for Applied Operations Research in Health Services!
- 10/2025: New pre-print with PhD candidate Yuming Sun “Quantifying the benefits of improved operations for polio outbreak response: A model-based analysis” is now online
- 9/2025: Our study on maternal transports, led by PhD student Jingyu Li, was covered by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “New research on maternal transports points to unseen gaps in Georgia care“
- 9/2025: Congratulations to recent PhD graduate Meghan Meredith for being selected as a Finalist in the INFORMS Society on Location Analysis (SOLA) Student Paper Competition for her paper “Identifying Regions Vulnerable to Obstetric Unit Closures using Facility Location Modeling with Patient Behavior”
- 7/2025: New pre-print with Abel Sapirstein: “Teaching Statistics Using Facility Location Modeling: A Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience” describing our pilot study of a course-based undergraduate research experience (CURE) developed with Dr. Tuba Ketenci, Dr. Laura Williams, and Dr. Kate Williams!
- 7/2025: New paper! Check out our paper “Examining perinatal regionalization in practice: a network analysis of maternal transport in Georgia” with PhD student Jingyu Li now online at BMC Health Services Research
- 6/2025: Check out this new pre-print “Identifying Regions Vulnerable to Obstetric Unit Closures using Facility Location Modeling with Patient Behavior” with recent PhD grad Meghan Meredith
- 5/2025: I am honored to receive the Georgia Tech ISyE Outstanding Teaching Award (Early Career). Thank you to my nominator and the students who provided letters of support
- 5/2025: Check out this showcase about our Transformative Teaching and Learning project “Teaching Statistics Using Facility Location Modeling: A Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience” that I designed with PhD student Abel Sapirstein and Dr. Tuba Ketenci with support from the GT Center for Teaching and Learning
- 5/2025: Check out this new pre-print “Paving the Way for More Accessible Cancer Care in Low-Income Countries with Optimization” with PhD student Abel Sapirstein and Dr. Mathieu Dahan