I wil be co-chairing a session with Prof. Swati Gupta at the 2025 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA titled “Learning with Humans, AI, and Limited Data.” I will also be presenting my work on costly bandits during the session.
Past Talks
Spring 2025 (April 2025): Guest speaker at Syracuse Economics department, ECN 310
December 2024: I was a guest speaker at Virginia Tech ISE, Deterministic OR 2, presenting our work on wildfire infrastructure investments and discussing the field of fair OR.
October 2024: I presented a talk on “The Curse of Aggregation & Vulnerability Indices in Climate Resource Allocation” at the 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting.
April 2024: I presented our research applying the Justice40 initiative to infrastructure investments for wildfire resilience to the Energy Justice Analysis Division of the Department of Energy.
October 2023: I presented joint work with Ryan Piansky, Alyssa Kody, Swati Gupta, and Daniel Molzahn at INFORMS 2023, titled “Optimizing Equitable Infrastructure Investment Decisions Under High Wildfire Risk Scenarios.”
May 2023: I presented on behalf of my senior capstone team at the 2023 IISE Annual Conference in New Orleans, winning first place. Our project was titled “Data-Driven Supplier Selection for New Product Launches,” sponsored by Steelcase Inc.
October 2022: I presented a poster at the 2022 INFORMS Annual Meeting of my joint work with Prof. Lauren Steimle. The poster was titled: “The Implications OfState Aggregation For Markov Decision Process Models With Medical Applications”
May 2022: I presented joint work with Prof. Lauren Steimle titled “Mitigation of Statistical Error in Markov Decision Processes: A State Aggregation Approach for Medical Decision-Making” at the IISE Annual Conference and Expo in Seattle, WA.