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
Principal Investigator · Faculty
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
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Time Series LLMs with Reasoning
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Towards Global Optimality in Stereotactic Radiation Therapy
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Scheduling in Surgery and Homecare
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Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning via Inverse Optimization
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Personalized Dietary Approaches for Chronic Disease Management
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Patient State Modeling in Critical Care: LLMs and Continuous State Estimation
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Patient Mobility and Falls Risk Assessment Tools
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Inverse Optimization for Utility Functions
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Inventory Management and PPE Procurement
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Optimizing 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
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
Q-Learning with Shift-Aware Upper Confidence Bound in Non-Stationary Reinforcement Learning
Ha Manh Bui, Felix Parker, Kimia Ghobadi, Anqi Liu · arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.03181
Reimagining nursing education: Leveraging competency-based education, artificial intelligence, and simulation for a diverse and practice-ready workforce
Robert Atkins, Kristen M Brown, Shawna S Mudd, Kimia Ghobadi, Deborah J Baker, Sarah Szanton · Nursing outlook
Eliciting Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Time Series Analysis using Reinforcement Learning
Parker F, Chan N, Zhang C, Ghobadi K · arXiv preprint