I am a PhD Candidate at the Management Sciences department, working with Prof. Fatma Gzara and Prof. James Bookbinder. My research focuses on deriving operational policies for optimizing system performance using operations research and optimization techniques. I am especially interested in new innovative systems that are enabled by the rise of the sharing economy and the gig economy. In my PhD research, I focus on gig economy platforms that provide last mile crowdsourced delivery. I study the problem of designing policies for crowdsourced delivery platforms that maximize service level under uncertain environments. I use techniques from stochastic optimization, Markov decision processes, approximate dynamic programming, and mixed integer programming to formulate my research problems.
I have also worked in three collaborative industry research projects with Canadian Tire, Loblaws and Challenger Motor Freight. I used dynamic and mixed integer programming to propose effective solutions and improvements to their supply chain and transportation systems.
My work is published in Omega, EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics and is under review in Transportation Science.
