Recent Accepted/Submitted Papers

Recent Accepted/Submitted Papers

• Data-driven Hospital Admission Control: A Contextual Learning Approach
  Accepted at Operations Research
  Collaboration with St. Joseph Hospital
  M. Zhalechian, E. Keyvanshokooh, C. Shi, MP. Van Oyen
  • Winner of Richard C. Wilson Best Student Paper Award on Service Systems, 2021
  • Finalist, Set Bonder Scholarship, INFORMS Health Applications Society, 2020

• Online Resource Allocation with Personalized Learning
  Accepted at Operations Research
  Collaboration with Michigan Medicine
  M. Zhalechian, E. Keyvanshokooh, C. Shi, MP. Van Oyen

• Contextual Learning with Online Convex Optimization with Applications to Medical Decision-Making
  2nd round of Major Revision at Management Science
  Collaboration with Massachusetts Hospital
  E. Keyvanshokooh, M. Zhalechian, C. Shi, MP. Van Oyen, P. Kazemian
  • Finalist, CHOM Best Paper Competition (POMS), 2022
  • Finalist, INFORMS MSOM Best Student Paper Competition, 2021
  • Finalist, INFORMS Health Applications Society (HAS) Best Student Paper Competition, 2021
  • Second Place, INFORMS Decision Analysis Society (DAS) Best Student Paper, 2020

• Dynamic Care Unit Placements under Unknown Demand with Learning
  Under Review at Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
  Collaboration with St. Joseph Hospital
  A. Dean, M. Zhalechian, MP. Van Oyen

• Augmenting Kalman Filter Machine Learning Models with Data from Optical Coherence Tomography to Predict Future Visual Field Loss: The African Descent and Glaucoma Evaluation Study
  Accepted at Ophthalmology Science
  Collaboration with Kellogg Eye Center and and Shiley Eye Institution
  M. Zhalechian, MP. Van Oyen, M. Lavieri, C. Andrew, J. Stein, et. al

Working Papers

• A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Control Chronic Diseases with Application to Macular Degeneration
  Collaboration with Kellogg Eye Center
  M. Zhalechian, MP. Van Oyen

• Optimizing Time to Next Visit: A Reinforcement Learning Approach
  Collaboration with Kellogg Eye Center
  I. Jones, M. Zhalechian, MP. Van Oyen, M. Lavieri, C. Andrew, J. Stein

Selected Published Papers

• Operating Room Scheduling by Considering the Decision-Making Styles of Surgical Team Members: A Comprehensive Approach
  Computers & Operations Research, 2019
  M. Hamid, M. Nasiri, F. Warner, M. Zhalechian

• Hub-and-spoke network design under operational and disruption risks
  Transportation Research Part E, 2017
  M. Zhalechian, SA. Torabi, M. Mohammadi

• A Self-adaptive Evolutionary Algorithm for a Fuzzy Multi-objective Hub Location Problem: An Integration of Responsiveness and Social Responsibility
  Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2017
  M. Zhalechian, R. Tavakkoli-Moghaddam, Y. Rahimi.

• Sustainable Design of a Closed-loop Location-routing-inventory Supply Chain Network Under Mixed Uncertainty
  Transportation Research Part E, 2016
  M. Zhalechian, R. Tavakkoli-Moghaddam, B. Zahiri, M. Mohammadi

• An Interactive Possibilistic Programming Approach for a Multi-objective Hub Location Problem: Economic and Environmental Design
  Applied Soft Computing, 2016
  M. Zhalechian, R. Tavakkoli-Moghaddam, Y. Rahimi, F. Jolai

• A Robust Possibilistic Programming Approach to Multi-period Hospital Evacuation Planning Problem under Uncertainty
  International Transactions in Operational Research, 2016
  M. Rabbani, M. Zhalechian, A. Farshbaf-Geranmayeh