The Inmate Assignment and Scheduling Problem and its Application in the PA Department of Corrections - The inmate assignment project, in close collaboration with the PA Dept. of Corrections, took five years from start to successful implementation. Our novel Inmate Assignment Decision Support Syst...

Crew Decision Assist: Optimizing Crew Deployment for Freight Trains - Crew costs account for a significant portion of train operating expenses, and so effective crew deployment is an important priority for railroad companies. Motivated by BNSF Railway’s desire to replace the current manual crew p...

Optimized Scoring Systems: Towards Trust in Machine Learning for Healthcare and Criminal Justice - Questions of trust in machine learning models are becoming increasingly important, as these models are starting to be used widely for high-stakes decisions in medicine and criminal justice. Transpar...

Outcome-Driven Personalized Treatment Design for Managing Diabetes - This work is joint with Grady Health Systems and Morehouse School of Medicine. We present a drug-effect-based personalized approach to improve treatment outcome for diabetic patients. First, a pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic...

Dispatch Optimization in Bulk Tanker Transport Operations - All modes of freight transportation are subject to flow imbalances that impact the efficiency of asset utilization. The use of Mathematical Programming optimization models has a rich history of application to this problem. We address a p...

Forecasting and Optimization Models for Audience Targeting on Television - At Turner, we have developed and implemented innovative, integrated forecasting and optimization models that forecast audiences in the 24/7 programming schedule, generate media plans across all Turner's networks, and sched...