I am an Assistant Professor of Management Analytics for Social Good at the Telfer School of Management within the University of Ottawa. I hold a Research Chair in AI and Mental Health at L'Institut du Savoir Montfort, and I maintain affiliate positions with UW-Madison, MIT, and Queensway Carleton Hospital.
My research focuses on developing and applying actionable analytics to solve health and humanitarian problems. I am interested in pursuing a diverse set of applications that are unified by my theoretical interests, which primarily focus on the interface between predictive and prescriptive analytics. I am particularly motivated by global and planetary health because I believe these areas have potential for significant practical impact, while motivating novel problem-driven theory at the intersection of optimization and machine learning.
My work has been recognized by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS): once winner (2024), one runner-up (2020), and twice finalist (2021, 2022) for the Pierskalla Best Paper Award, honorable mention for the Doing Good with Good OR Paper competition (2021), and as a PhD student, I won the Seth Bonder Scholarship for Applied Operations Research in Health Services (2017).
I received a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Statistics from Acadia University, a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the University of Toronto, and I was a postdoctoral associate with the Humanitarian Supply Chain Lab and the Center for Transportation and Logistics at MIT. Prior to joining the University of Ottawa, I was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and an Affiliated Faculty in the BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Wisconsin Madison.