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.
News
- 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
- 4/2025: Congratulations to Meghan Meredith on her successful PhD Defense!
- 4/1/2025: I shared my work on mathematical modeling of maternal healthcare systems at the Annual Workshop on AI for Maternal and Child Health, jointly hosted by Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University
- 3/2025: Congratulations to Meghan Meredith who won Outstanding Oral Presentation and Jingyu Li who won 1st Place Poster in Public Health at the Southeast Regional Clinical and Translational Science Conference!
- 2/2025: New pre-print “Examining Perinatal Regionalization in Practice: A Network Analysis of Maternal Transport in Georgia” with PhD student Jingyu Li is now online
- 10/2024: My PhD student, Meghan Meredith, and I presented our research on measuring access to obstetric care on Atlanta News First: “Georgia Tech researchers identify communities in need, ways to fix state’s maternal mortality crisis”
- 10/2024: New paper “Revisiting the Small-World Property of Co-enrollment Networks: A Network Analysis of Hybrid Course Delivery Strategies” is now published in Socio-economic Planning Sciences.
- 9/2024: New paper “Toward Expanded Access to Cancer Care With Cost Awareness: An Optimization Modeling Analysis of Rwanda” with PhD student Abel Sapirstein is now published in JCO Global Oncology.
- 8/2024: New paper “Racial/Ethnic Differences in Pre-Pregnancy Conditions and Adverse Maternal Outcomes in the nuMoM2b Cohort” with PhD student Meghan Meredith is now online at PLoS One.
- 7/2024: Check out this Georgia Tech news article, “Expanding Access to Obstetric Care in Georgia: Challenges and Strategies,” covering our work on maternal health systems.
- 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!