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IMSE Doctoral Graduates
2018 Doctoral Graduates

Daniel Romero Rodriguez
Physical and Social Systems Resilience Assessment and Optimization
Major Professor: Dr. Alex Savachkin
Current Role: Professor at Universidad del Norte
2017 Doctoral Graduates

Andres Garcia Arce
Strategies for Reducing Preventable Hospital Readmissions on Medicare Patients.
Major Professor Dr. Zayas-Castro

Ran Zhang
Decision Support Models for A Few Critical Problems in Transportation System Design
and Operations.
Major Professor: Dr. Bo Zeng

Walter Silva Sotillo
Analysis of a Potential A(H7N9) Influenza Pandemic Outbreak in the U.S.
Major Professor: Dr. Tapas Das

Aritra Pal
Improving Service Level of Free-Floating Bike Sharing Systems
Major Professor: Dr. Changhyun Kwon & Dr. Yu Zhang
2016 Doctoral Graduates

Iman Nekooeimehr
Oversampling Methods for Imbalanced Dataset Classification and their Application to
Gynecological Disorder Diagnosis.
Major Professor: Dr. Susana Lai-Yuen
Current Role: Operations Research Consultant at Revenue Analytics

Mona Haghighi
Rule-based Risk Monitoring Systems for Complex Datasets.
Major Professor: Dr. Tapas Das

Alireza Ghalebani
Renewable Energy Investment Planning and Policy Design.
Major Professor: Dr. Tapas Das
Current Role: Consultant at McKinsey & Company, New York Office

Yu Chen
Mining Dynamic Recurrences in Nonlinear and Nonstationary Systems for Feature Extraction,
Process Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis.
Major Advisor: Dr. TBA
2015 Doctoral Graduates
Dongping Du
Physical-Statistical Modeling and Optimization of Cardiovascular System
Major Advisor: Dr. Hui Yang
Anna Danandeh
Achieving Reliable Generation & Delivery of Energy Through Robust Optimization
Major Advisor: Dr. Bo Zeng
Current Role: Manager of Business Intelligence - Marketing Effectiveness at Verizon,
NYC
Gang Liu
Spatiotemporal Sensing and Informatics for Complex Systems Monitoring, Fault Identification
and Root Cause Diagnostics
Major Advisor: Dr. Hui Yang
Wei Yuan
Reliable Power System Protection and Operations
Major Advisor: Dr. Bo Zeng
Felipe Feijoo
Analysis of Carbon Policies for Electricity Networks with High Penetration of Green
Generation
Major Advisor: Dr. Tapas Das
Yazhou Liu
Patient Populations, Clinical Associations, and System Efficiency in Healthcare Delivery
Systems
Major Advisor: Dr. Jose Zayas-Castro
Diego Martinez-Cea
Informing Policy, Design and Deployment of Health Information Technology
Major Advisor: Dr. Jose Zayas-Castro
Mehrnaz Abdollahian
Data-driven decision making for BRCA1/2 mutation carriers
Major Advisor: Dr. Tapas Das