Group

Research Group

Ph.D. Students

Jingyu Li
Ph.D. student in Operations Research
About: I am a Ph.D. student in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. Before that, I graduated with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  I am currently interested in applying advanced quantitative methods such as statistical models and data-driven optimization to understand a phenomenon or to improve a current existing solution, especially in the healthcare field. My goal is to solve challenging issues arising from public health and medical decision-making and to generate new insights that could promote overall wellness in the community during my Ph.D. study.
Meghan Meredith Headshot Meghan Meredith
Ph.D. student in Operations Research
About: I am an Operations Research Ph.D. student at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In May 2020, I graduated from the University of Wisconsin – Madison with a BS in Industrial Engineering. My research interests include addressing healthcare operations and public health challenges using data analytics, simulation, and optimization. 

  • INFORMS Minority Issues Forum Poster Competition, First Place, 2022
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship recipient, 2022
  • 2021 David Cowan Scholarship awarded by the Georgia Chapter of Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (GA HIMSS)
  • ISyE George Fellowship – awarded in recognition of excellence in research in the health systems and analytics
Abel Sapirstein
Ph.D. student in Operations Research
About: I completed my undergraduate degree in math and computational biology at Harvey Mudd College. I want to leverage OR as a tool for promoting equity in our healthcare systems, both domestically and globally, through modeling, incentive alignment, and hopefully eventually public policy. Broadly my research interests surround stochastic modeling and simulation within the context of public health crises.

  • National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (Awardee)
  • National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (Awardee)
  • Thomas J. Watson Fellow – starting 2022
  • Ernst and Young HCC Scholar – 2021-2022
Yuming Sun Headshot Yuming Sun (co-advised with Pinar Keskinocak)
Ph.D. student in Operations Research
About: I have an undergrad’s degree in Industrial Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University and a master’s degree in Operations Research at Georgia Institute of Technology. I am interested in research of healthcare delivery, healthcare optimization, vaccine-preventable disease modeling, evaluation of intervention strategies, resource allocation, economic analysis of public health. I am currently focusing on the spread of poliovirus in high-risk areas and cost-effective interventions to stop, prevent and eliminate polio outbreaks.

  • 2023 Seth Bonder Scholarship for Applied Operations Research in Health Services
  • ISyE George Fellowship – awarded in recognition of excellence in research in the health systems and analytics

Alumni and Former Group Members

Graduate Students

  •  Amaya McNealey
    Ph.D. student in Industrial Engineering (Expected 2027)

    • Ronald J. and Carol T. Beerman Presidential Fellowship, 2023
    • Georgia Institute of Technology President’s Fellowship, 2022
    • Grand Challenges Scholar Designation by the National Academy of Engineering, 2022
    • North America International IEOM Conference Undergraduate Student Paper Competition 2nd Place Winner, 2022
  • Jiajia Xie (co-advised with B. Aditya Prakash)
    M.S., ISyE and Computational Sciences and Engineering
    Graduation: May 2021
    Thesis title: Using Wifi Mobility Data for Modeling COVID-19 on University Campuses

Undergraduate Students

  • Emily Bell (2023)
  • Madeleine Pollack (2020-2023)
    • Position after Advising: PhD Student in Operations Research at MIT
    • Finalist in the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) national “Rapid Fire” competition, 2022
    • 2nd Place College of Engineering Oral Presentation at the Georgia Tech Undergraduate Research Symposium, 2022
    • ISyE Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher, 2022
    • Georgia Tech President’s Undergraduate Research Salary Award, Spring 2022
    • Adobe Research Women-in-Technology Scholarship Recipient, 2022
    • 2021 INFORMS Undergraduate Travel Award recipient, 2021
    • Finalist in the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) national poster competition, 2021
    • 3rd Place College of Engineering Poster Presentation at the Georgia Tech Undergraduate Research Symposium, 2021
  • Julia Francois (2022) – Georgia Tech SURE Program
  • Ezra Klinect (2022) – Georgia Tech ISyE SURF Program
  • Lauren Johnson (2020)
    • Co-author on article published in Socio-economic Planning Sciences
  • Kate Wehrenberg (2020)
    • President’s Undergraduate Research Award, Georgia Tech, 2020
  • Vinayak Ahluwalia (2018-2019, advised as a graduate student at U. Michigan)
    • Position after advising: Medical student, University of Pennsylvania (starting Fall 2020)
    • Computing Research Association (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award, Honorable Mention, 2020
    • INFORMS Undergraduate Operations Research Prize, Honorable Mention, 2019
    • INFORMS Minority Issues Forum Participant, INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2019
    • Tau Beta Pi Travel Award, University of Michigan Undergraduate Research Symposium, 2019
    • INFORMS Undergraduate Travel Award, INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2018
    • Co-author on article published in IISE Transactions
  • Charmee Kamdar (2018-2019, advised as a graduate student at U. Michigan)
    • Position after advising: Intern, Facebook (starting summer 2020)
    • Co-author on article published in IISE Transactions

Support

We are thankful for the support we have received from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Georgia Tech’s EVPR Office, the Georgia Tech ISyE Thos and Clair Muller Endowment Fund, and the Emory School of Medicine/ Georgia Tech I3 Seed Grant.