Selected publications

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

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

Augmenting LLMs for General Time Series Understanding and Prediction

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.

Optimizing Clinical Fall Risk Prediction: A Data-Driven Integration of EHR Variables with the Johns Hopkins Fall Risk Assessment Tool

Ganjkhanloo F, Springer E, Hoyer EH, Young DL, Ghobadi K

arXiv

Joint Score-Threshold Optimization for Interpretable Risk Assessment Under Partial Supervision

Ganjkhanloo F, Springer E, Hoyer EH, Young DL, Ghobadi K

arXiv

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

Medtsllm: Leveraging llms for multimodal medical time series analysis

Nimeesha Chan, Felix Parker, William Bennett, Tianyi Wu, Mung Yao Jia, James Fackler, Kimia Ghobadi

arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.07773

Improving Observed Decisions Quality using Inverse Optimization: A Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning Application

Ahmadi F, McNutt TR, Ghobadi K

arXiv preprint

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

Optimal hospital capacity management during demand surges

Parker F, Ganjkhanloo F, Martínez DA, 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

Expert-Guided Inverse Optimization for Convex Constraint Inference

Mahmoudzadeh H, Ghobadi K

arXiv:2207.02894

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

Medtsllm: Leveraging llms for multimodal medical time series analysis, 2024

Nimeesha Chan, Felix Parker, William Bennett, Tianyi Wu, Mung Yao Jia, James Fackler, Kimia Ghobadi

URL https://arxiv. org/abs/2408.07773