Current Candidates
| Candidate | Start year Degree Name | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| *2023 Ph.D. (sh.) Elnaz Ziad | ||
| *2023 Ph.D. Mahsa Zokaee | ||
| *2023 Ph.D. Mahsa Lashgari | ||
| *2023 M.A.Sc. Parnian Azimzadeh | Healthcare human resource planning | |
| *2023 M.Eng. Kyle Juliao | ||
| *2022 Ph.D. Taylor Martin | Nursing workforce planning | |
 | *2021 Ph.D. (sh.) Suting Yang | Using data analytics and simulation to reduce single-entry waitlists for surgical scheduling at UHN. |
 | *2019 Ph.D. (flex) Alvin Cheng | Understanding the complexity of youth mental health access and capacity planning, with application of system dynamics and system science methods to identify holistic approaches to better outcomes for this population. |
| *2019 Ph.D. (sh.) Pardis Seyedi | A blockchain-based appointment problem in healthcare | |
 | *2018 Ph.D. Pooja Bhalerao | Modeling the supply and demand of internists in Ontario using the system dynamics approach. |
 | *2018 Ph.D. (flex) Arun Dixit | Application of machine learning algorithms to improve patient flow and timely access to services in large community hospitals. |
Past Candidates
| Year(s) | Degree | Candidate | Thesis Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-2023 | M.Eng. | Omar Anjum | Forecasting patient wait time and evaluating human factors of the wait experience in the emergency department at St. Michael’s Hospital |
| 2022-2023 | M.Eng. | Tianjian Chen | Private transport for non-urgent patients |
| 2022-2023 | M.Eng. | Harry (Pei Ye) Li | Chemo therapy scheduling |
| 2021-2023 | M.A.Sc. | Rejuana Alam | Design of the trauma bay units in the Sunnybrook ED |
| 2021-2023 | M.A.Sc. | Melina Fartaj | Bed capacity planning at UHN |
| 2021-2023 | M.Eng. | Richard Hoang | Design of trauma bay in ED at Sunnybrook |
| 2017-2022 | Ph.D. | Jenya Doudareva | Development of a generic emergency department discrete event simulation model |
| 2020-2022 | M.A.Sc. | Dylan Camus | MRI simulation at JDMI/UHN |
| 2020-2022 | M.A.Sc. | Daire Crawford | Machine learning methods of risk evaluation for community-acquired Clostridioides difficile infection in Ontario |
| 2020-2021 | M.Eng. | Maisie Brown | COVID-19 vaccine clinic decision support planner |
| 2020-2021 | M.Eng. | Maliha Imami | Toronto Western Hospital non-emergent spine care QBP planning system: operationalizing dynamic response To funded surgery volumes |
| 2020-2021 | M.Eng. | Caiden Chi | Chest masculinization surgeries in Ontario |
| 2020-2021 | M.Eng. | Brigid O’Riordan | Outpatient clinic schedule optimization at West Park Healthcare Centre |
| 2019-2021 | M.A.Sc. | Sara Ketabi | Using machine learning algorithms for clinical decision support for breast cancer screening at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center |
| 2019-2021 | M.A.Sc. | Fan Jia | A data-driven optimized two-stage appointment scheduling model for CT simulation and radiation treatments |
| 2019-2021 | M.A.Sc. | Jamie Ji Min Kim | Data driven inpatient bed demand forecasting model for surge mitigation |
| 2019-2021 | M.A.Sc. | Sherry Xiarui Xie | A stochastic programming approach for nurse workforce planning under uncertainty in a hospital context |
| 2015-2021 | Ph.D. | Tahera Yesmin | Smart hospital applications |
| 2020 | M.Eng. | Varun Abraham | Canadian Mental Health Association – Compressed workweek scheduling |
| 2020 | M.Eng. | Annie Yexin Hu | Patient flow simulation at Medcan |
| 2018-2020 | M.A.Sc. | Tammi Hawa | Reimagining the operating room inventory as a center of savings |
| 2018-2020 | M.A.Sc. | Suting Yang | Big data insights into MRI demand and wait time |
| 2017-2020 | M.A.Sc. | Megan Chan | Staffing in the emergency department: A discrete event simulation approach |
| 2018-2019 | M.Eng. | Scott Odorizzi | St. Michael’s Hospital patient flow modelling in the emergency department |
| 2017-2019 | M.A.Sc. | Leyi Chang | Capacity planning and scheduling of a nurse resource team (NRT) |
| 2017-2019 | M.A.Sc. | Deyvison Medeiros | Improving timely access to emergency diagnostic imaging via data analysis and discrete event simulation |
| 2017-2019 | M.A.Sc. | Pavel Shmatnik | ALC populations in Ontario – A data driven approach to targeted policy design for specific patient populations using a time-variant state space model |
| 2016-2019 | M.A.Sc. | Mina Alirezaee | Testing the resource allocation of dialysis centre at Scarborough Health Network |
| 2016-2019 | M.A.Sc. | Jing Guo | Innovation in low back pain care in Ontario – ISAEC program evaluation |
| 2018 | Ph.D. | Carolyn Busby | Simulation modelling of hospital capacity and flow |
| 2017-2018 | M.Eng. | Varun Myagen | Data visualization and system dynamics study for the mental health program at North York General Hospital |
| 2016-2018 | M.A.Sc. | Andrew Leung | Generic policy evaluation model in a multi-facility diagnostic imaging setting |
| 2016-2018 | M.A.Sc. | Emma Pienaar | The application and extension of a generic hospital simulation model to predicting patient flow at a hospital |
| 2016-2018 | M.A.Sc. | Christian Silva | Simulation model to assess the impact of a centralized scheduling policy for imaging procedures in Ontario |
| 2016-2018 | M.Eng. | Manuel Casas | Evaluation of the impact of timely and quality discharge summaries on re-admission rates to tertiary/acute care hospitals |
| 2015-2018 | M.H.Sc. | Christopher Stewart | Mackenzie Health: An analysis of a "Smart" Internet of Things Approach to Healthcare |
| 2012-2018 | Ph.D. | Hootan Kamran | Spatio-temporal and class-imbalanced data analytics in healthcare |
| 2016-2017 | M.Eng. | Yidan Xie | Allocation of future funding for residential hospice beds in Ontario |
| 2013-2017 | PhD (committee) | Kristen Pitzul | Outcomes and costs of post-acute care pathways in hip fracture patients: Implications of trade-offs in resource allocation |
| 2016 | M.Eng. | Nour Abu El-Saad | Analyzing the lengthy wait time issue for hip/knee replacement surgeries at Chatham-Kent Health Alliance |
| 2016 | M.Eng. | Carson Fong | NRT staffing optimization at the Scarborough Hospital |
| 2016 | M.Eng. | Parisa Sadeghi | Analyzing the lengthy wait time issue for hip/knee replacement surgeries at Chatham-Kent Health Alliance |
| 2014-2016 | M.A.Sc. | Salem Jabr | Predicting short-term hospital inpatient bed needs for up to four days in advance |
| 2009-2016 | Ph.D. | Brendan Eagan | Ambulatory clinic scheduling |
| 2008-2016 | Ph.D. | Ali Vahit Esensoy | Whole-system patient flow modelling for strategic planning in healthcare |
| 2015 | Ph.D. | Anna Graber | Operations research methodologies to improve the quality, accessibility and equity of primary care |
| 2015 | Ph.D. | Mahsa Shateri | Resource allocation and risk analysis of dialysis centres |
| 2015 | M.A.Sc. | Tsoleen Ayanian | Health human resource planning of physiotherapists and occupational therapists in Newfoundland and Labrador |
| 2015 | M.A.Sc. | Amanda Bell | Emergency Department wait time modelling and prediction at North York General Hospital |
| 2015 | M.A.Sc. | Carly Henshaw | Improving patient transportation performance by developing and implementing a generic simulation model |
| 2015 | M.A.Sc. | Janet Izumi | Redesigning an outpatient pharmacy workflow using generic simulation modelling to maximize a renovation opportunity |
| 2015 | M.A.Sc. | Azadeh Mostaghel | Investigation of suitability and feasibility of home dialysis |
| 2015 | M.H.Sc. | Sabrina Tang | CT capacity planning |
| 2015 | M.Eng. | Karin Ayanian | Inter-professional Spine Assessment and Education Clinics (ISAEC) pilot at UHN |
| 2015 | M.Eng. | Tony Chen | Simulation and analysis of patient scheduling |
| 2015 | M.Eng. | Farshid Haghighi | Demand forecasting for various cancer services |
| 2015 | M.Eng. | Maleeha Shahzada | Toronto East General Hospital value stream map |
| 2014 | Ph.D. | Shoshana Goldberg | Chemo therapy scheduling |
| 2014 | M.A.Sc. | Jacqueline Chan | Modeling the gynecologic oncology workforce using system dynamics |
| 2014 | M.Eng. | Samira Khan-Baba | Pre-admission unit template scheduling at Mount Sinai Hospital |
| 2013 | Ph.D. | Daphne Sniekers | A generic simulation-based perioperative decision support tool for tactical decisions |
| 2013 | M.A.Sc. | Jenya Doudareva | Improvements to information flow in the physician order tracking process |
| 2013 | M.H.Sc. | Ronak Gandhi | Increasing the daily throughput of echocardiogram patients using discrete event simulation |
| 2013 | M.Eng. | Paulette Holtham | GIS mapping of Emergency Departments in Ontario: Ministry of Health |
| 2013 | M.Eng. | Noura Kamali | Central intake and waitlist management for the Toronto Public Health Blind Low Vision, Infant Hearing and Speech and Language Program |
| 2012 | M.A.Sc. | Michael Beeler | The Use of Simulation Methods to understand and control pandemic influenza |
| 2012 | M.A.Sc. | Tian Mu Liu | A generic bed planning model |
| 2012 | M.A.Sc. | Jonathan Wang | On quantifying and forecasting Emergency Department overcrowding at Sunnybrook Hospital using statistical analyses and artificial neural networks |
| 2012 | M.Eng. | David Kochberg | Sustainable change in healthcare through process improvement: A case study in Newfoundland endoscopy |
| 2011 | M.A.Sc. | Deborah Loach | Simulation model for a colonoscopy suite |
| 2011 | M.Eng. | Adelaide Hung | Sample workflows for primary care practice |
| 2010 | M.A.Sc. | Pamela Chan | Predictive modeling of Emergency Department wait times for abdominal pain patients |
| 2010 | M.Eng. | Sweeny Chhabra | Simulation modeling to investigate the reduction of patient wait-times for emergency surgery while maintaining the volume of elective surgery patients at a tertiary care centre |
| 2009 | Ph.D. | Somayeh Sadat | Theory of constraints for publicly funded health systems |
| 2009 | Ph.D. | Sonia Vanderby | An investigation into the suitability of applying system dynamics to patient flow modelling |
| 2009 | M.Eng. | Jackie Achonu | An analysis of the brachytherapy suite at the Odette Cancer Centre |
| 2009 | M.Eng. | Agnita Pal | Need for supportive housing and community support services in Central East Local Health Intgration Network (CE LHIN) |
| 2009 | M.Eng. | Tammy Sieminowski | Estimating length of stay for complex rehab patients |
| 2008 | M.A.Sc. | Ali Vahit Esensoy | Evaluation of the demonstration project to direct low acuity ambulance patients into urgent care centres to improve ambulance availability |
| 2008 | M.A.Sc. | Peggy Li | Utilizing discrete event simulation to evaluate colon cancer surgical capacity |
| 2008 | M.A.Sc. | Vincent Ling | Design of a balanced scorecard to measure Emergency Department patient flow in a Canadian teaching hospital |
| 2005-2008 | M.A.Sc. | Rodney Lau | Applying discrete-event simulation to orthopaedic clinics: Case studies and perspectives |
| 2007 | M.A.Sc. | Rasha Rashidi | Modelling and optimization of patient flow at the Diagnostic Imaging Department of Trillium Health Centre |
| 2007 | M.Eng. | Wendy Lam | An initial mapping of Ontario’s colorectal cancer patient journey |
| 2006 | Ph.D. | Arielle Lasry | Modelling HIV intervention funding allocations |
| 2006 | M.A.Sc. | Jean Hai Ein Yong | Applying operations research to improve resource utilisation in a cardiac surgical service |
| 2005 | Ph.D. | Holly Jin | Scalable sensor localization algorithms for wireless sensor networks |
| 2005 | M.A.Sc. | Govind Adaikappan | Modelling the neonatal ICU at Mount Sinai Hospital |
| 2005 | M.A.Sc. | Caroline Chan | Allocating resources by modeling cardiac patient flow using a system dynamics approach |
| 2004 | M.A.Sc. | Renata Kopach | Finding the optimal switchover level between two levels of demand in a blood bank |
| 2004 | M.A.Sc. | Somayeh Sadat | A system dynamics approach to modeling cardiology patient flow in Trillium Health Care Centre |
| 2004 | M.Eng. | Joseph Kim | Report on information privacy in health care |
| 2004 | M.Eng. | Melanie Lam | Report on information privacy in health care |
| 2004 | M.Eng. | Vivian Wong | Simulation model for cardiac patients in BC |
| 2003 | M.A.Sc. | Carolyn Busby | Predicting waiting time for home care in Simcoe County |
| 2003 | M.Eng. | Jason Lin | An analysis of decision support requirements and the design and its implementation at Mount Sinai’s Temmy Laetner Centre for Palliative Care |
| 2003 | M.Eng. | Sandra Minatel | Validity and location of safety stock of “A” items for critical care units in a healthcare supply chain |
| 2003 | M.Eng. | Phu Vu | ADT system reporting: Providence Centre |
| 2002 | M.A.Sc. | Yaron Derman | Mathematical models for predicting hospital bed availability for the following day |
| 2000 | M.Eng. | Mowafa Househ | A proposed graduate program for the Centre for Information Management and Technology in Healthcare |
| 2000 | M.Eng. | Adrian Kumar | Simulating yard traffic in a new Loblaws Companies Ltd distribution centre |
| 2000 | M.Eng. | Erika Lafond-Lewis | Quantifying the impact of stochastic variance on total production time estimations during validation of deterministic factory capacity models |
| 2000 | M.Eng. | Larry Szeto | On the use of PDAs at Baycrest Centre of Geriatric Care |
| 2000 | M.Eng. | Bogdan (Paul) Ticu | A comparison of portfolio selection models applied to the Toronto Stock Exchange |
| 1999 | M.Eng. | Rebecca Chan | Managing wait time and resource utilization in a home care Centre: Simcoe County CCAC |
| 1999 | M.Eng. | Edmond Chung | Managing wait time and resource utilization in a home care Centre: Simcoe County CCAC |
| 1998 | Ph.D. | Keith Jawahir | An algorithm for the continuous Caster Steel scheduling problem |
| 1997 | Ph.D. | Ardavan Asef-Vaziri | A loop material flow system design for manufacturing plants (co-supervised: C. Sriskandarajah) |
| 1997 | Ph.D. | John Blake | A goal programming approach to resource allocation in acute care hospitals |
| 1997 | Ph.D. | Kourosh Eshghi | Existence and construction of a graceful valuation of 2-regular graphs with three components (co-supervised: J.V. Abrham) |
| 1997 | Ph.D. | Leo Lopez Garcia | Using Tabu search for scheduling the hot strip rolling mill in steel production |
| 1997 | Ph.D. | Daniel Gordon | Improving information systems design to support continuous quality assurance in hospital (Biomedical Engineering – shared) |
| 1996 | M.A.Sc. | Andrew Asa | A decision support system to meet the post-schedule staffing needs of a hospital nursing unit |
| 1996 | M.A.Sc. | Mona Kiragu | Scheduling therapist personnel at a sport clinic: A flexible staff scheduling system |
| 1995 | M.Eng. | Christine Kahil | Optimization of coil slitting at a brass and copper rolling mill |
| 1994 | Ph.D. | Dijian Zhou | A polyhedral approach for solving the distributed module assignment problem |
| 1994 | M.Eng. | Makoto Shibata | Engineering task assignment problem |
| 1993 | Ph.D. | Sheldon Hu | An optimization model of a printed circuit board manufacturing problem |
| 1993 | M.A.Sc. | Sharon Zhu | Hospital census control through operating room scheduling |
| 1992 | M.Eng. | Prasad Bhamre | Production planning and software requirements: Upper Canada Brewing Company |
| 1991 | M.A.Sc. | Rhea Plosker | A cost model for coal fired electrical generating stations |
| 1990 | M.A.Sc. | Laura Logan | Computerized plant layout improvement heuristic |
| 1989 | M.A.Sc. | Drew van Camp | A nonlinear optimization approach for solving facility layout problems |
| 1988 | M.A.Sc. | Nova Woodbury | Scheduling N jobs on M machines in a deterministic environment |
| 1988 | M.Eng. | I. Y-H. Ng | Approaches to network decomposition |
| 1988 | M.Eng. | Victor Sitsch | A hybrid algorithm for scheduling secondary school examinations |
| 1987 | M.A.Sc. | Victoria Olds | A continuous approach to the solution of a class of equality-constrained quadratic zero-one programming problems |
| 1986 | M.Sc. | Stephen Shew | Cographics in timetabling problems (Computer Science – shared) |
| 1986 | M.Eng. | T. Alguindique | Improving Gomory’s fractional cutting plane algorithm for integer linear programming problems |
| 1986 | M.Eng. | K.A. El-Sahli | Experimental results on a hybrid algorithm for examination timetabling |
| 1986 | M.Eng. | Keith Fuller | A Lagrangian relaxation approach to the classroom assignment problem |
| 1985 | M.Eng. | David Schell | Timetabling application at Two Ontario high schools with cross-registration (Management Science, Univ. of Waterloo – shared) |
| 1983 | M.Eng. | Zafer Buckey | Development of a Quadratic Integer Programming algorithm for ‘multiple choice’ equality constraints |
| 1983 | M.Math. | Frank Leddy | Course timetabling methods (Combinatorics and Optimization, Univ. of Waterloo – shared) |
Graduate Student Internships
| Date | Degree | Candidate | Project title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 Summer | Masters: Twente Univ., Netherlands | Laura Hoffman | Collaboration with Mount Sinai Hospital |
| 2012 Summer | Masters: Twente Univ., Netherlands | Greanne Leeftink | Collaboration with Mount Sinai Hospital |
| 2008 Summer | Masters: Tech. Univ. of Vienna, Austria | Wolfgang Bucheggar | Literature review for hospital capacity planning |
| 2006 Summer | Masters: Twente Univ., Netherlands | Rink Kraakman | Model health human resources at the Cardiac Care Network of Ontario |
| 2005 Summer | Masters: Twente Univ., Netherlands | Magreet van der Drift | Investigation of waiting times at the Fracture Clinic of Toronto Western Hospital |