2019 IAAA Videos

2019 IAAA Winner Duke, Harvard, U of Wisconsin, Mass General Hospital

Transparent Machine Learning Models for Predicting Seizures in ICU Patients from cEEG Signals - Continuous electroencephalography (cEEG) technology was developed in the 1990’s and 2000’s to provide real-time monitoring of brain function in hospitalized patients, such as critically ill patients su...

2019 IAAA Finalist Center for O.R. in Medicine and Healthcare

Machine Learning: Multi-site Evidence-based Best Practice Discovery - This study establishes interoperability among electronic medical records from 737 healthcare sites and performs machine learning for best practice discovery. A novel mapping algorithm is designed to disambiguate free text entri...

2019 IAAA Finalist Singapore University of Tech & Design

InnoGPS: Innovation Global Positioning System - Traditionally the ideation and exploration of innovation opportunities and directions rely on human expertise or intuition and is faced with high uncertainty. Many historically-successful firms (e.g., Kodak, Motorola) lost direction for innovation a...

2019 IAAA Finalist Verizon

Using Advanced Analytics to Rationalize Tail Spend Suppliers at Verizon - Verizon Global Supply Chain organization currently governs thousands of active supplier contracts. These contracts account for several billions of annualized Verizon spend. Managing thousands of suppliers, controlling spend...

2019 IAAA Finalist Washington University in St. Louis

Taking Assortment Optimization from Theory to Practice: Evidence from Large Field Experiments on Alibaba - We compare the performance of two approaches for finding the optimal set of products to display to customers landing on Alibaba’s two online marketplaces, Tmall and Taobao. Both approaches w...