My research seeks to improve the effectiveness and equity of interventions for social good through data and analytics.
One area of focus is optimizing supply chain and policy interventions for creating better access to, and consumption of, fresh food. Much of this work has been motivated through collaborations with the Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance. Another stream of research uses data to improve refugee resettlement, in collaboration with the GeoMatch team at the Stanford Immigration Policy Lab, where I completed a postdoc. My research intersects various fields, including machine learning, optimization, and statistics.
I received my PhD in Operations Research from MIT in 2021, where I was co-advised by Retsef Levi and Georgia Perakis.
Before coming to MIT, I received a B.S. in Math, B.S. in Statistics, and M.A. in Math from the Pennsylvania State University. Before grad school, I spent a year working at Booz Allen Hamilton as a data scientist. I have also worked briefly at IBM, Bates White Economic Consulting, and in the Risk and Decision Science Team of the Environmental Laboratory, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center.
You can find my CV here.
Papers
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Group fairness in dynamic refugee assignment.
Preprint.
- With Daniel Freund, Thodoris Lykouris, Bradley Sturt, and Wentao Weng. Under review.
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Outcome-Driven Dynamic Refugee Assignment with Allocation Balancing.
Preprint.
- With Kirk Bansak. Under review.
- Accepted for oral presentation, 23rd ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC '22)
- Optimal Interventions for Increasing Healthy Food Consumption Among Low-Income Populations.
Preprint.
- With
Retsef Levi and Georgia Perakis.
- Major Revision, Management Science
- Accepted for oral presentation, 4th Workshop on Mechanism Design for Social Good (MD4SG '20)
- Finalist, POMS College of Sustainable Operations Best Student Paper Competition, 2021
- Finalist, IBM Best Student Paper Award, 2019
- Reverse Information Sharing: Reducing Costs in Supply Chains with Yield Uncertainty.
Preprint.
- With Pavithra Harsha, Ashish Jagmohan, Retsef Levi, and Georgia Perakis
- R&R, Management Science
- 2nd place, POMS College of Supply Chain Management Best Student Paper Competition, 2021
- Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Consumption: The Impact of Access and Value.
Preprint.
- With
Retsef Levi and Georgia Perakis
- R&R, Food Policy
- Public Health Risks Arising from Food Supply Chains: Challenges and Opportunities.
Link.
- With
Lu Chen, Donovan Guttieres, Retsef Levi, Georgia Perakis, Nicholas Renegar, and Stacy Springs
- Naval Research Logistics (special issue on OR Models in Developmental Studies), 2021
- A Game Theoretic Model for Resource Allocation Among Countermeasures with Multiple Attributes.
Link.
- With Jeffrey Keisler and Igor Linkov
- European Journal of Operations Research, 2016
- Cooperation Can Emerge in Prisoner’s Dilemma from a Multi-Species Predator Prey Replicator Dynamic.
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- With Christopher Griffin
- Mathematical Biosciences, 2016
- Deriving an Optimally Deceptive Policy in Two-Player Iterated Games.
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- With Christopher Griffin
- In proceedings of American Control Conference, 2016
- Optimal Process Control of Symbolic Transfer Functions.
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- With Christopher Griffin
- In proceedings of Feedback Computing, 2015
- Better Timing of Cyber Conflict.
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- With Christopher Griffin
- In proceedings of Third ASE International Conference on Cyber Security, 2014