Department of Economics, Finance & Quantitative Analysis

Research & Teaching Areas
- Application of operations research, discrete event simulation modeling and statistical modeling in disaster planning and healthcare.

Professional Certifications
- Six Sigma Black Belt

Representative Publications

"Emergency Department Simulation and Parametric Models for Improving Patient Throughput," with Li Lin, Journal of Emergency Medicine forthcoming.

"Location-Allocation Planning of Strategic Stockpile Locations for Effective Disaster Mitigation," with Govind Hariharan, Annals of Operations Research forthcoming.

“Improving Bid Efficiency for Humanitarian Food Aid Procurement,” with Aniruddha Bagchi and Michael Maloni, International Journal of Production Economics (2011), 134(1), 238-245.

"Using Dynamic Graph Matching and Gravity models for Early Detection of Bioterrorist Attack by Analysis of Hospital Patient Data," with Kedar Sambhoos and Govind Hariharan, Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (2009), 6(1), Article 88.

"Transient Modeling in Simulation of Hospital Operations for Emergency Response," with Pengfei Yi, Santosh George and Li Lin, Prehospital and Disaster Medicine (2006), 21, 223-236.