Ford Motor Company: Identifying Risks and Mitigating Disruptions in the Automotive Supply Chain - Firms are exposed to a variety of low probability / high impact risks which may disrupt their operations and supply chains. These risks are difficult to predict and quantify, and therefore difficult...

CDC and Georgia Tech: Vaccine Prioritization for Effective Pandemic Response - When vaccine availability is limited, prioritized vaccination is considered the best strategy to contain a (flu) pandemic. We derive a mathematical decision framework to track the effectiveness of prioritized vaccinati...

Intel: Project Portfolio Planning at Intel Corporation - We address the problem of deciding between project funding opportunities under budget constraints. Projects interactions make selection difficult but senior managers have business intuitions that inform the decisions. We use modeling, simul...

Statistical and Optimization Techniques for Laundry Portfolio Optimization at P&G - The Procter & Gamble (P&G) Fabric Care business oversees a broad portfolio of products, including household brands such as Tide, Dash, and Gain. We describe a novel analytical framework that uses visua...

Sabre: Airline Crew Augmentation, Decades of Improvements from Sabre - The airline crew pairing problem is to generate optimized legal anonymous pairings that cover the flight complement requirements. The exact crew composition needed on a flight often varies depending on of the pairings that cov...

Gerrymandering for Justice: Redistricting U.S. Liver Allocation - U.S. policy sequesters livers from deceased donors within arbitrary geographic zones, frustrating the intent of offering livers according to medical urgency. We used a zero-one integer program to partition the U.S. into districts t...