Research

North American Natural Gas Model (NANGAM)

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Understanding the Interactions of Food, Energy, Water Systems

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Data Mining for Global Bicycling Trends

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Patient Flow and Scheduling in Hospitals

The Mathematical Optimization for Decisions Lab (MODL)

MODL (pronounced "model") studies problems at the intersection of society and infrastructure by developing and applying novel mathematical tools to aid decisions in energy, health, and engineering systems.

Energy

Explore our research in energy, with extensive work on fuel infrastructure, electricity systems, and climate markets.

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Health

Explore our research in health, focused on optimizing patient flow and staffing in hospitals and the clinical trials system.

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Applied Computation

Explore our current research projects on computational issues in large-scale optimization, equilibrium, and learning.

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Publications

Recent research publications

We publish in peer-reviewed journals in operations research, energy, healthcare, and optimization and regularly attend academic conferences in these areas.

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Blog

Research Blog

The Future of Natural Gas Infrastructure in the US

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A Human-Centric Engineering Discipline

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The Food Distributed Extendable Complementarity Model (Food-DECO)

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The North American Crude Oil Model: A Framework for Multimodal Transport

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A step towards sustainable bioenergy policies

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Patterns in Bicycle Ownership Among Neighboring Countries.

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