Research

Thirteen projects across six themes

One question runs through all of them: how can optimization and AI help healthcare?

Theme
Theme 01

Methods and Models

3 projects
Time Series LLMs with Reasoning
Time Series LLMs with Reasoning

Many of the signals that matter most in the real world come as numerical time series: heart-rate and ECG traces in hospitals, stock prices and economic indicators in finance, or temperature and pollut

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Inverse Optimization for Utility Functions
Inverse Optimization for Utility Functions

Many real decisions are shaped by an optimization problem that nobody has fully written down.

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Feasible Regions Recovery of Optimization Models
Feasible Regions Recovery of Optimization Models

Many real decisions are constrained in ways that are only partly written down.

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Theme 02

AI and Healthcare

2 projects
Patient State Modeling in Critical Care: LLMs and Continuous State Estimation
Patient State Modeling in Critical Care: LLMs and Continuous State Estimation

Precise modeling of patient states in critical care — essential for timely intervention and outcome prediction — remains constrained by two fundamental challenges: (1) existing models struggle to inte

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The Impact of AI Scribe on Primary Care Workload
The Impact of AI Scribe on Primary Care Workload

Primary care clinicians spend large amounts of their working hours, both in- and outside of the clinic, updating electronic health record (EHR) documentation for patients.

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Theme 03

Healthcare Operations & Resource Management

3 projects
Scheduling in Surgery and Homecare
Scheduling in Surgery and Homecare

We study healthcare scheduling across the patient care pathway, from surgery to post-discharge home care.

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Inventory Management and PPE Procurement
Inventory Management and PPE Procurement

Most inventory models address demand uncertainty but give limited attention to lead time uncertainty, particularly endogenous lead time uncertainty, and often ignore stockpile policies and large-scale

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Optimizing Capacity Management Decisions for Healthcare Systems Under Stress
Optimizing Capacity Management Decisions for Healthcare Systems Under Stress

Healthcare systems face increasing pressure from demand surges caused by pandemics, natural disasters, and seasonal illnesses.

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Theme 04

Clinical Decision Support

1 project
Patient Mobility and Falls Risk Assessment Tools
Patient Mobility and Falls Risk Assessment Tools

This project utilizes data-driven optimization and machine learning methods to improve the quality of inpatient fall risk assessment and decision-making.

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Theme 05

Precision Medicine & Personalized Treatment Optimization

3 projects
Towards Global Optimality in Stereotactic Radiation Therapy
Towards Global Optimality in Stereotactic Radiation Therapy

This work focuses on brain stereotactic radiosurgery for patients with multiple metastases to identify a single "isocenter" location, the point the machine rotates around as it delivers radiation from

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Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning via Inverse Optimization
Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning via Inverse Optimization

This project tackles a practical bottleneck in radiation therapy planning: even with modern planning software, clinicians often have to "tune" dose-volume limits for tumors and nearby organs through r

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Personalized Dietary Approaches for Chronic Disease Management
Personalized Dietary Approaches for Chronic Disease Management

This project develops a preference-aware inverse optimization + clustering framework for precision nutrition, aimed at producing diet recommendations that jointly reflect (i) expert dietary constraint

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Theme 06

Covid-19

1 project
Covid-19 Mortality in US Counties
Covid-19 Mortality in US Counties

This work follows a healthcare-systems question across multiple waves of COVID-19 in the United States that "as clinical care, variants, vaccination, and hospital strain changed, did the factors linke

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