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Excellent team work by the lab on and off the field!

Excellent presentations of their work by graduate students at the INFORMS Healthcare conference, 2019……….. Left to right- Shifali Bansal, Xinmeng Zhao, Hanisha Tatapudi, Sonza Singh, and Nazanin   … and Escape Room success!!  

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Congratulations to Buyan Munkhbat for selection to Insight fellowship

Congratulations Buyan for being selected to the Insight Data Engineering Fellowship Program !!

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Congratulations to Shifali Bansal for internship at Super Brush!!

Shifali will work as a Quality Assurance inter. Her job responsibilities include process validation and software validation that support the maintenance and compliance to Super Brush’s ISO 13485:2016 quality system.  

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Congratulations to Vijeta Deshpande for a full time job at Massachusetts General Hospital!

Vijeta is joining MGH after finishing his MS in Industrial Engineering with an excellent thesis on control optimization modeling for identifying optimal screening schedules for cancers in low infrastructure settings.

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Should we concentrate on structural interventions that target social determinants for HIV prevention? Impressive project from students in my 200-level class

Project from my 200-level GenEd class, 16 students from 8 different majors – engineering, public health, computer science, economics, physics, biology, management, journalism. They did a literature review for identifying quantified correlations between social determinants and behavior, and behavior and HIV. And developed a differential equations simulation model for predicting impact of addressing social determinants. [ Read More ]

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Congratulations to Buyan Munkhbat for successful MS thesis defense!

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Congratulations to Vijeta Deshpande on successful MS thesis defense!

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Fun hike and Bub’s BBQ with lab

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Teaching social network modeling in a high school teacher training session

Wonderful to participate in a high school teacher training session with Prof Shannon Roberts and PhD students Sonza Singh and Nazanin

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Vijeta Deshpande accepts an internship job at Avenir Health

Vijeta will develop Markov processes based analytic models for predicting disease risks including acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic hearth disease, and risks of indoor air pollution.  He will work closely with experts in statistics, public policy, and software development.  Avenir Health is a non profit organization in Connecticut that works closely with multiple United Nations agencies and [ Read More ]