A paper by Scholar Sun, a research assistant in the Health AI and Analytics Lab, published in the IISE Transactions on Healthcare Engineering, was featured as a selected article in the May 2026 issue of the ISE Magazine. The paper tackles a large-scale complex problem in radiation therapy for cancer patients and devises methodologies for ensuring the complex model solution can be translated into a realistically deliverable treatment plan in clinics. This work was supervised by Prof. Houra Mahmoudzadeh and co-authored by collaborators from the Waterloo Regional Health Network (WRHN) Cancer Centre. Scholar had previously won the CORS Undergraduate Paper Competition and received the Honorable Mention of the INFORMS Undergraduate Operations Research Prize.
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Read the full paper at the following link: A time discretized mathematical model and heuristic for sliding windows IMRT
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