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After an action packed year from2010-2011, the INFORMS@USFchapter has begun the 2011 aca-demic hitting the ground run-ning. Although our department isfacing something of a rebuildingyear with six PhD students grad-uating and only three enteringthe program, we are encouragedby the way others have steppedup to fill the shoes of those de-parted.
This year the Chapter is continuing the tradition of hold-ing numerous social events, participating in communityoutreach, and maintaining an active lecture se-ries. These activities promote a strong sense of com-munity within our department; it seems unique thateach student knows every other student in their depart-ment by name. These also provide valuable networkingopportunities and exposure to cutting edge research,allowing us all to grow socially and academically. Wehave a huge number of students presenting at the an-nual meeting, which is a testament to our department’scommitment to promoting student success. The 2010-2011 academic year promises to be exciting
and engaging.
I sincerely hope that everyone continuesto work hard on their studies as well as building the so-cial network that has developed here over the years. Itis only through your involvement that the departmentand INFORMS@USF chapter continue to be success-ful, and that is greatly appreciated by myself and theother officers.
A Newsletter from Student Chapter of INFORMS @ IMSE, USF
INFORMS @ USF
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A Message from the New President
The former president of INFORMS @USF asked:"Who wants to help in amedical mission in DominicRepublic?"
"I wanna do that!" I said.
We set up the trip in lessthan 3 weeks. During thattime, I had the respectivetraining to apply all the initia-tives designed by the team
with the objective of improv-ing the logistics involved inmedical missions. So I was an engineer/physician for aweek, awesome!
It was an incredible experience. My role as engineer was about being the logistic specialist in a team con-formed by 70 physicians (and consider that I never hadreal logistic experiences before). And as a person, isabout those instants that you say: “engineering rocks!”.
I only have to mention that the trip was only the icing onthe cake, after a semester of hard work of my team-mates Laila Cure, Anna Danandeh, Ozan Ozcan,Mehrnaz Abdollahian, Roberto Garuti and Alfredo San-tana at USF.
By: Diego Martinez
President Ludwig Kuznia
Vice President Long Zhao
Treasurer Javad Sajjadi
Secretary Monica Puertas
Lecture Series Coordinators Mehrnaz Abdollahian
Serkan Gunpinar
Webmasters Eleazar Gil
Felipe Feijoo
OR Times Editors Anna Danandeh
Florentino Rico
Committee 2011-2012
OR on the Field...
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Current approaches for pandemic mitigation utilize both pharmaceutical interventions (PHI),
which include vaccines and antiviral drugs, and non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI), which
include among other measures social distancing, quarantine, isolation, school and workplace
closure, and travel restrictions. There are, however, certain challenges with the use of PHI at the
critical early stages of a pandemic. As evidenced by the 2009 H1N1 outbreak, with the emer-
gence of a new virus subtype, a surge production of a potent vaccine in sufficient quantities can
take up to nine months. At the same time, to use antivirals as an effective prophylactic measure
generally requires a substantial level of stockpile, which can be infeasible due to prohibiting pro-
duction and storage costs. Also, the use of a large-scale antiviral-based prophylaxis can result in
some strains of influenza becoming antiviral resistant while maintaining infectiousness.
NPIs have the advantage of being available in the early phases of a pandemic and thus can reduce pressure on
health service providers allowing them time to procure, distribute, and administer vaccines and antiviral. NPIs are par-
ticularly important in developing countries that do not count with the resources needed for effective pharmaceutical
intervention strategies. Some of the NPIs have already been incorporated into national pandemic preparedness plans,
existing WHO recommendations and in the guidelines of the CDC. However, a careful review of the above plans and
guidelines reveals that there is no consistent NPI strategy of when and how to implement these interventions. The
plans and guidelines vary in their definitions of declaration thresholds, implementation stages, target population, and
implementation logistics.
Some of the recent papers on simulation-based models for pandemic influenza mitigation, have examined various non
-pharmaceutical intervention strategies. Our review of these papers found differences in the assumptions regarding
some of the key model parameters, such as intervention initiation, duration of the intervention phases, composition of
risk groups, compliance levels, and other NPI related parameters.
Based on our literature review we believe there is a need for a better understanding of the dynamics behind non -
pharmaceutical interventions and parameter selection. Our overall research objective is to develop a decision -aid
methodology to support the design of non-pharmaceutical intervention strategies for the mitigation of pandemic influ-
enza outbreaks. This methodology will provide a better understanding of the science of interventions and will ultimate-
ly empower public health policy makers with strategies to minimize the impact of pandemic outbreaks in our quality of
life.
By: Dayna Lee Martínez
PhD. Candidate
The Doctorate Student Corner
Non-pharmaceutical interventions for the mitigation of pandemic influenzaoutbreaks
Dongping Du, our doctoral student, won rst place in the
IBM Best Student Paper compeon at the IEEE Engineering
in Medicine and Biology Society Conference (EMBC)2011,
September 2 in Boston for her paper tled as “Mulscale
modeling of glycosylaon modulaon dynamics in cardiac
electrical signaling”. The compeon is peer-reviewed and
nalists selected based on the merits of submissions, confer-
ence presentaons and corresponding nominaons. She also received free con-
ference registraon and a $1,200 monetary award.
Dongping Du is under the supervision of Hui Yang, assistant professor in IMSE,
and Eric Benne, professor in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology and
Physiology. http://www.embs.org/news/117-embc-2011-student-awards
Congratulations to IBM best student paper winner, Dongping! Upcoming Lecture Series
Dr. James Luedtke
University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Branch-and-Cut Approaches for Chance-Constrained Formulations
of Reliable Network Design"
Nov. 28th, 2011
12pm-1pm, MSC 3705
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2011 INFORMS Annual meeting at Charlotte
Sunday, November 13th:
Ludwig Kuznia, Multi-Period Hybrid Power System Design for Remote Areas
Long Zhao, Tree-based Multi-dimensional Lifting Function and It's Application
Ludwig Kuznia, A Primal Algorithm for Solving Chance Constrained Mixed Integer Programming Problems
Felipe Feijoo, Generation expansion planning with a real options approach under cap and trade regulation and stochastic fuel price variations
Monday, November 14th:
Yu An, Mitigation of Hub Congestion: Temporary Hubs and Dynamic Routes
Seyed Javad Sajjadi, A Two-layer Network Model and the Algorithm
Tuesday November 15th:
Long Zhao, An Exact Algorithm for 2-Stage Robust Model with MIP Recourse and its Applications in Power Systems
Anna Danandeh, A Scheduling Model with Dynamic Electricity Price and Local Generator
Ludwig Kuznia, Long Term Planning for Palliative Chemotherapy for Late Stage Cancer Patients
Wednesday November 16th:
Sandro Paz, A Multiple Pickup Route Optimization Problem
Monica Puertas, Determining Patient Flow and Resource Utilization
Diego Martinez, Post-surgical Complication Patterns Based on Laboratory Test Results and Electrical Heart Signals
Oguz Cimenler, A decision on innovativeness focusing on an efficinet social network structure: A complete network (graph) approach
Dayna Lee Martinez, Non-pharmaceutical interventions for pandemic influenza
Long Zhao, Robust Network Design Problems
Fethullah Caliskan, Impact of Organizations' Networking Structure on Innovative Performance
Serkan Gunpinar, A Multiple Period Stochastic Coal Transportation and Inventory Model
Where are our graduates now?
Cihan Babayigit
Graduation Date: PhD in IMSE, Fall 2007
Position: Business Process Manager, Turkis RestaurantChain
Location: Vienna, Austria Job Description: Market Modeling, Pricing, Business
Analytics
Wilkistar Otieno
Graduation Date: PhD in IE, August 2010
Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial& Manufacturing Engineering, University of Wisconsin-
Milwaukee
Location: Milwaukee, WI
Research Interests: Reliability Engineering with Appli-cation to Nanotechnology and Energy Systems, Statisti-cal Design of Experiments and Analysis and EngineeringEducation.
Andres Uribe-Sanchez
Graduation Date: PhD in IE, Fall 2010
Position: Post-doctoral Research Fellow, University of California San Diego
Location: San Diego, CA
Job Description: Research in the area of real-time in-
teractive cancer treatment plan optimization
Vishnuteja Nanduri
Graduation Date: PhD in IE, August 2009
Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial& Manufacturing Engineering, University of Wisconsin-
Milwaukee
Location: Milwaukee, WI
Research Interests include stochastic optimization, sim-ulation-based optimization, and game-theoretic model-ing. My application areas of interest are energy and envi-ronmental policy modeling.
Alcides Santander
Graduation Date: PhD in IE, Summer 2010
Position: Assistant Professor at Universidad del Norte
Location: Barranquilla, Colombia
Research Interests include simulation-based optimiza-tion, healthcare engineering and supply chain
Patricio Rocha
Graduation Date: PhD in IE, Summer 2011
Position: Engineer, Resource Adequacy Planning De-partment, PJM Interconnection
Location: Norristown, PA
Research Interests/ Job Description: Market Analyticsin Electric Power Systems; Reliability in Electric Power Systems
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INFORMS@USF in Photos
OR Newsletter Editors:
• Anna Danandeh • Florentino Rico•
IMSE
4202 E. Fowler Ave. ENB 118
Tampa FL, 33620
Tel: (813) 974-5591
Fax: (813) 974-974-5953
[email protected] http://informs.eng.usf.edu
Members of our student chapter, faculty and staff from the IMSE department shared a fun afternoon of karaoke and din-ner at the INFORMS@USF welcome event (September 16th, 2011).
INFORMS@USF students participated in the INFORMS annual Halloween party hosted by Monica Puertas and SandroPaz (October 29th, 2011)
Our INFORMS@USF guest speaker series has been a success: Dr. Cetinkaya from Texas A & M and Dr. Jeffrey W.
Herrmann from the University of Maryland visited and shared their work with our community.