Professors Houra Mahmoudzadeh and Hossein Abouee Mehrizi were awarded a Graham Seed Fund award for their proposal on optimizing operating room scheduling. Read more on the Faculty of Engineering News:
Danielle Ripsman, a PhD student in the Health AI and Analytics Lab, supervised by Prof. Houra Mahmoudzadeh, was recently featured in an interview by Waterloo News. Danielle explains her love of puzzles and how that led to doctoral studies in operations research, where she is using mathematical models to improve radiation therapy in cancer treatment.
Congratulations to PhD student, Esma Akgun, for being awarded the 3rd Place at the 2022 SC&LM Best Student Research Competition of the 7th Annual Workshop on Supply Chain & Logistics Management, which was held at Dalhousie University. Esma's paper was titled “Determining Optimal COVID-19 Testing Center Locations and Capacities”, jointly co-supervised by Professors Sibel A. Alumur and F. Safa Erenay.