Systems and methods for assured autonomous mechanical ventilation
Khalid HALBA, Russell H Taylor, Jules BERGMANN, Kimia GHOBADI, Anton T Dahbura, James Fackler, Antwan D CLARK · US Patent App. 19/107,866, 2026
Kimia Ghobadi
CSSE Associate Director
John C. Malone Assistant Professor of Civil and Systems Engineering
John C. Malone Assistant Professor of Civil and Systems Engineering
[Kimia Ghobadi](https://systems.jhu.edu/kimia) is a John C. Malone Assistant Professor of Civil and Systems Engineering and Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare at the Whiting School of Engineering. Prior to that, she was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT Sloan School of Management, and received her PhD in Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. She obtained her Bachelor in Mathematics at Sharif University and her Masters' in Mathematics and Computational Engineering and Science at McMaster University. Kimia is a recipient of INFORMS Judith Liebman award and Canada's Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council's graduate and postdoctoral scholarships.
Projects
Methods and ModelsTime Series LLMs with Reasoning
Precision Medicine & Personalized Treatment OptimizationTowards Global Optimality in Stereotactic Radiation Therapy
Healthcare Operations & Resource ManagementScheduling in Surgery and Homecare
Precision Medicine & Personalized Treatment OptimizationRadiation Therapy Treatment Planning via Inverse Optimization
Precision Medicine & Personalized Treatment OptimizationPersonalized Dietary Approaches for Chronic Disease Management
AI and HealthcarePatient State Modeling in Critical Care: LLMs and Continuous State Estimation
Clinical Decision SupportPatient Mobility and Falls Risk Assessment Tools
Methods and ModelsInverse Optimization for Utility Functions
Healthcare Operations & Resource ManagementInventory Management and PPE Procurement
Healthcare Operations & Resource ManagementOptimizing Capacity Management Decisions for Healthcare Systems Under Stress
Selected publications
From Non-Identifiability to Goal-Integrated Decision-Making in Parametric Inverse Optimization
Farzin Ahmadi, Fardin Ganjkhanloo, Kimia Ghobadi · arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.17033
TsLLM: Augmenting LLMs for General Time Series Understanding and Prediction
Parker F, Chan N, Zhang C, Ghobadi K · International Conference on Machine Learning
Optimal hospital capacity management during demand surges
Parker F, Ganjkhanloo F, Martínez DA, Ghobadi K · Health Care Management Science
An interpretable data-driven approach to optimizing clinical fall risk assessment
Fardin Ganjkhanloo, Emmett Springer, Erik H Hoyer, Daniel L Young, Kimia Ghobadi · arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.20714
Joint Score-Threshold Optimization for Interpretable Risk Assessment
Fardin Ganjkhanloo, Emmett Springer, Erik H Hoyer, Daniel L Young, Kimia Ghobadi · arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.21934