Selected publications
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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
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
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
MedTsLLM: Medical Time Series Analysis Using Multimodal LLMs
Chan N, Parker F, Zhang C, Bennett W, Jia MY, Fackler J, Ghobadi K
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.
Falls in Hospitals: Challenging Traditional Risk Assessments With New Insights Into Patient Mobility
Hoyer EH, Young DL, Zhang C, Colantuoni E, Ghobadi K
Journal of Advanced Nursing
1067 Utilizing the Emergency Department as an Opportunity to Improve Racial/Ethnic Equity for Masld Patients: Automation and Artificial Intelligence for Disease Detection and Risk Stratification
Vedant Jain, Tyrus Vong, Jeremiah Hinson, Eili Klein, Tanjala Purnell, Kimia Ghobadi, Dorry L Segev, Alexandra T Strauss
Gastroenterology
Algorithms at the bedside: Moving past development and validation
James Fackler, Kimia Ghobadi, Ayse P Gurses
Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Transforming Nursing Education: AI and Competency-Based Learning for an Inclusive and Equitable Future
Robert L Atkins, Kristen M Brown, Shawna S Mudd, Kimia Ghobadi, Deborah J Baker, Sarah Szanton
Available at SSRN 4988538
Improving Observed Decisions Quality using Inverse Optimization: A Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning Application
Ahmadi F, McNutt TR, Ghobadi K
arXiv preprint
MedTsLLM: Leveraging LLMs for multimodal medical time series analysis
Chan N, Parker F, Bennett W, Wu T, Jia MY, Fackler J, Ghobadi K
Machine Learning for Healthcare Conference.
Association of Longitudinal Mobility Levels in the Hospital and Injurious Inpatient Falls
Hoyer EH, Young DL, Ke V, Zhang JY, Colantuoni E, Farley H, Dahbura A, Ghobadi K
American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation,
An Interactive Decision-Support Dashboard for Optimal Hospital Capacity Management
Parker F, Martínez DA, Scheulen J, Ghobadi K
arXiv preprint
Evolving patterns of COVID-19 mortality in US counties: A longitudinal study of healthcare, socioeconomic, and vaccination associations
Ganjkhanloo F, Ahmadi F, Dong E, Parker F, Gardner L, Ghobadi K
PLOS Global Public Health.
Lessons of Relevance and Rigor from the Literature: The Case of Healthcare Supply Chain
Kimia Ghobadi, Eugene Schneller, Jing Liu, Yousef Abdulsalam, Cassandra Thiel
2023 Annual Research Meeting
Simulating Disease Spread During Disaster Scenarios
Shiyu Jiang, Heejoong Kim, Fabio Tanaka, Claus Aranha, Anna Bogdanova, Kimia Ghobadi, Anton Dahbura
Artificial Life Conference Proceedings 35 2023 (1), 123, 2023
Learning DVH Criteria in Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning
F Ahmadi, T McNutt, K Ghobadi
MEDICAL PHYSICS 49 (6), E908-E908, 2022
Learning from Good and Bad Decisions: A Data-driven Inverse Optimization Approach
Houra Mahmoudzadeh, Kimia Ghobadi
arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.02894
Is There a Market for Sustainable Healthcare?
Ferdinand K Hui, Andrew Menard, Kimia Ghobadi, TY Alvin Liu, Phillip Phan
Journal of Sustainable Marketing
Real-time COVID-19 forecasting: challenges and opportunities of model performance and translation
Kristen Nixon, Sonia Jindal, Felix Parker, Maximilian Marshall, Nicholas G Reich, Kimia Ghobadi, Elizabeth C Lee, Shaun Truelove, Lauren Gardner
The Lancet Digital Health 4 (10), e699-e701, 2022
An evaluation of prospective COVID-19 modelling studies in the USA: from data to science translation
Kristen Nixon, Sonia Jindal, Felix Parker, Nicholas G Reich, Kimia Ghobadi, Elizabeth C Lee, Shaun Truelove, Lauren Gardner
The Lancet Digital Health 4 (10), e738-e747, 2022
You are what you eat: A preference-aware inverse optimization approach
Ahmadi F, Dai T, Ghobadi K
arXiv preprint
Inverse learning: Solving partially known models using inverse optimization
Ahmadi F, Ganjkhanloo F, Ghobadi K
arXiv preprint
Responding to a Pandemic: COVID-19 Projects in the Malone Center
Kimia Ghobadi, Greg Hager, Axel Krieger, Scott Levin, Mathias Unberath
Surgical Innovation
Targeted rapid testing for SARS-CoV-2 in the emergency department is associated with large reductions in uninfected patient exposure time
JS Hinson, RE Rothman, K Carroll, HH Mostafa, K Ghobadi, A Smith, D Martinez, K Shaw-Saliba, E Klein, S Levin
Journal of Hospital Infection
A Social Network Under Social Distancing: Risk-Driven Backbone Management During COVID-19 and Beyond
Yiting Xia, Ying Zhang, Zhizhen Zhong, Guanqing Yan, Chiun Lin Lim, Satyajeet Singh Ahuja, Soshant Bali, Alexander Nikolaidis, Kimia Ghobadi, Manya Ghobadi
18th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI …, 2021
Multi-hazard hospital evacuation planning during disease outbreaks using agent-based modeling
Fardad Haghpanah, Kimia Ghobadi, Benjamin W Schafer
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
Inferring linear feasible regions using inverse optimization
Ghobadi K, Mahmoudzadeh H
European Journal of Operational Research
How to evacuate an emergency department during pandemics: a covid-19 agent-based model
Fardad Haghpanah, Kimia Ghobadi, Benjamin W Schafer
2020 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)
An open-source dataset on dietary behaviors and dash eating plan optimization constraints
Farzin Ahmadi, Fardin Ganjkhanloo, Kimia Ghobadi
arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.07531
Artificial Intelligence-based Clinical Decision Support for COVID-19--Where Art Thou?
Mathias Unberath, Kimia Ghobadi, Scott Levin, Jeremiah Hinson, Gregory D Hager
Advanced Intelligent Systems https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aisy.202000104
Optimal resource and demand redistribution for healthcare systems under stress from COVID-19
Parker F, Sawczuk H, Ganjkhanloo F, Ahmadi F, Ghobadi K
arXiv preprint
Robust inverse optimization
Kimia Ghobadi, Taewoo Lee, Houra Mahmoudzadeh, Daria Terekhov
Operations Research Letters
Translating a biologic revolution into an organizational overhaul
Kimia Ghobadi, A Cecilia Zenteno, Adam R Marshall, Peter F Dunn, Retsef Levi, John H Stone
NEJM Catalyst 3 (1), 2017
Skeletonization for isocentre selection in Gamma Knife® Perfexion™
Evgueniia Doudareva, Kimia Ghobadi, Dionne M Aleman, Mark Ruschin, David A Jaffray
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Interactive visual guidance for automated stereotactic radiosurgery treatment planning
Danielle A Ripsman, Dionne M Aleman, Kimia Ghobadi
Expert Systems with Applications
Optimization methods for patient positioning in Leksell Gamma Knife Perfexion
Kimia Ghobadi
A linear model for continuous path treatments for stereotactic radiosurgery
Kimia Ghobadi, Dionne M Aleman, David A Jaffray, Mark Ruschin
IISE Annual Conference. Proceedings
TH‐A‐137‐04: Continuous Path Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning for Gamma Knife Perfexion
K Ghobadi, D Aleman, D Jaffray, M Ruschin
Medical Physics
Automated treatment planning for a dedicated multi‐source intra‐cranial radiosurgery treatment unit accounting for overlapping structures and dose homogeneity
Kimia Ghobadi, Hamid R Ghaffari, Dionne M Aleman, David A Jaffray, Mark Ruschin
Medical physics
Discretize and optimize approaches for PDE-based optimization problems
Kimia Ghobadi, Nedialko S Nedialkov, Tamás Terlaky
SU‐D‐211‐03: An Automated Inverse Planning Optimization Approach for Single‐Fraction and Fractionated Radiosurgery Using Gamma Knife Perfexion
K Ghobadi, H Ghaffari, D Aleman, M Ruschin, D Jaffray
Medical physics
Automated treatment planning for a dedicated multi‐source intracranial radiosurgery treatment unit using projected gradient and grassfire algorithms
Kimia Ghobadi, Hamid R Ghaffari, Dionne M Aleman, David A Jaffray, Mark Ruschin
Medical physics
TH‐E‐BRB‐02: Automated Optimization of Treatment Plans for a Dedicated Stereotactic Radiotherapy Device Using Intelligent Isocenter Selection and Penalty‐Based Weight Optimization
H Ghaffari, K Ghobadi, D Aleman, M Ruschin, D Jaffray
Medical Physics
Inverse learning: Solving partially known models using inverse optimization, 2023
Farzin Ahmadi, Fardin Ganjkhanloo, Kimia Ghobadi
URL https://arxiv. org/abs
On the discretize then optimize approach
Kimia Ghobadi, Nedialko S Nedialkov, Tamas Terlaky
Preprint for Industrial and Systems Engineering
A heat-transfer optimization problem
Kimia Ghobadi
On Discretize then Optimization Approach of Heat Optimization Problem
Kimia Ghobadi
Skeletonization for isocentre selection in Gamma Knife R
M Aleman, Mark Ruschin, David A Jaffray
Translating Data in a Pandemic 1 An evaluation of prospective COVID-19 modelling studies in the USA: from data to science translation
Kristen Nixon, Sonia Jindal, Felix Parker, Nicholas G Reich, Kimia Ghobadi, Elizabeth C Lee, Shaun Truelove, Lauren Gardner
An evaluation of prospective COVID-19 modelling studies in the USA: from data to science translation. Lancet Digit Health. 2022 Oct 1; 4 (10): e738–47
K Nixon, S Jindal, F Parker, NG Reich, K Ghobadi, EC Lee
Epub 2022/09/24. https://doi. org/10.1016/S2589-7500 (22) 00148-0 PMID: 36150782, 0