Research
Stochastic models and data driven simulations for healthcare operations
PhD thesis (MIT)
Committee Members: Itai Ashlagi, David Gamarnik and Alvin Roth
Finding long chains in kidney exchange using the traveling salesman problem
Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
Coauthors: Itai Ashlagi, David Gamarnik and Alvin Roth
The software used to conduct this research is free and open source. It can be found at http://github.com/rma350/kidneyExchange. Build instructions are here.
A dynamic model of barter exchange
Submitted
Winner of MIT ORC Best Student Paper 2013
Coauthors: Itai Ashlagi, David Gamarnik and Yash Kanoria
Kidney Exchange and the Alliance for Paired Donation
To appear in Interfaces
Coauthors: Itai Ashlagi, David Gamarnik, Michael Rees, Alvin Roth, Tayfun Sönmez and Utku Ünver
Scheduling residents in hospitals: Queueing models and fluid approximations
To be submitted
Coauthor: David Gamarnik
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The impact of resident shift lengths on the delivery of care
To be submitted
Coauthor: David Gamarnik
Download: Chapter 6 of thesis is a super set of this paper
Polygyny in the nest-site limited acacia-ant Crematogaster mimosae
Published in Insectes Sociaux
Coauthors: Ben Rubin, Devin Kennedy, T.M. Palmer, M.L. Stanton and I.J. Lovette