About Me

I'm a Harold E. Smalley Early Career Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) and the Pillar 1 Co-lead in Data Science, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence in the Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Pediatric Technology Center at Georgia Tech. My research interests are in the design, analysis, and optimization of data-driven frameworks at the intersection of prediction and decision-making as motivated by high-impact problems in Medical Decision-Making and Health Policy. My recent work emphasizes the design of frameworks that consider the tenets of responsible AI so that they are acceptable to key stakeholders at the patient, physician, operational, and policy levels. This research area draws problems which have both practical impact and interesting theoretical challenges.

My research integrates predictive and prescriptive analytics, drawing on methodologies from stochastic optimization, dynamic programming, machine learning, stochastic modeling, and simulation. My current projects include applications in a broad range of disease and health areas including concussion, chronic disease management, the opioid crisis, and maternal health.

Prior to joining ISyE, I was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Technology Assessment at the Harvard Medical School. I obtained my PhD in 2020 and MS in 2016 from the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan and my BS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh in 2014.

In my professional service efforts, I currently serve as a Vice President of Communications (co-chair) for the INFORMS Minority Issues Forum and a council member in the INFORMS Health Applications Society.