People

Our faculty are immersed in various areas of research, including operations management, human factors, statistical analyses, and pandemic planning. They are renowned for developing solutions for a wide range of challenges in healthcare. Our students have the opportunity to work closely with faculty and other researchers, on projects that have practical application throughout the healthcare sector.

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Dionne Aleman

Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering

Research areas: Medical applications of operations research; Radiotherapy treatment optimization, Pandemic planning; Data mining to improve bone marrow transplant outcomes; Global optimization; Heuristic design; Parallel computing.

Myrtede Alfred

Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering

Research areas: Patient safety; Systems equity; Maternal health disparities; Virtual environments.

Christopher Beck

Professor, Industrial Engineering

Research areas: Optimization; Heuristic search; Constraint programming; Scheduling; Hybrid algorithms; Dynamic and uncertain problems; Problem modeling.

Michael W. Carter

Professor, Industrial Engineering

Research areas: Healthcare human resource planning and forecasting; Capacity planning; Operating room planning and scheduling; Wait list management; Healthcare system modelling; Patient flow simulation; Cancer screening capacity; Clinic planning.

Timothy C. Y. Chan

Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering

Research areas: Operations research; Optimization under uncertainty; Mathematical programming; Probabilistic analysis of systems; Applications to radiation therapy; Healthcare operations; Sustainability; Sports analytics.

Mark Chignell

Professor, Industrial Engineering

Research areas: Human factors approaches to information technology; Mobile computing; Healthcare ergonomics; Social computing; Advanced user interface design; Smart internet and personal web. Applications to healthcare and e-commerce.

Eldan Cohen

Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering

Research areas: Machine learning; Heuristic search; Data mining; Applications in automated planning; Natural language processing; Software engineering.

Birsen Donmez

Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering

Research areas: Human factors; Human adaptation to technology; Designing feedback for guiding operator behavior; Driver distraction mitigation; Statistical modelling of crash data; Decision support for emergency medical transport; Interruptions in intensive care settings; Unmanned vehicle supervisory control.

Daniel M. Frances

Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering

Research areas: Application of simulation techniques to health care and manufacturing; Ontario electricity market; Interfaces between operations research and information systems.

Elias Khalil

Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering

Research areas: Machine learning; Integer programming; Algorithm design; Learning to optimize; Combinatorial machine learning.

Chi-Guhn Lee

Professor, Industrial Engineering

Research areas: Various logistics problems; Sequential decision making theories; Financial theories applied in manufacturing and service sectors; Market-driven conflict resolution; Optimal pricing; Marketing; Information system control and design.

Paul Milgram

Professor, Industrial Engineering

Research areas: Human factors issues related to navigation; Manipulation and control in 3D environments; Human-machine interfaces for teleoperation; Human factors issues in medicine, especially surgery and anaesthesiology; Modelling of attentional workload.

Enid Montague

Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering

Research areas: Human-automation interaction; Automation in health care; Systems for health equity and patient safety.

Isabelle Rao

Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering

Research areas: Operations research; Optimization; Health policy; Healthcare operations; Machine learning; Epidemic control; Scarce resources.

Scott Sanner

Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering

Research areas: Machine learning and large-scale data analysis, Artificial Intelligence (AI); Information retrieval; Social media; Recommender systems; Sequential decision optimization; Operations research; Smart cities applications.

Vahid Sarhangian

Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering

Research areas: Applications of queueing theory to healthcare provider staffing; Modelling and control of patient flow in emergency departments and inpatient wards; Healthcare supply chain management.