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Vikrant Vaze
Stata Family Career Development Associate Professor of Engineering
Research Affiliate, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT

Education
- Bachelor of Technology, Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay 2005
- SM, Transportation, MIT 2007
- SM, Operations Research, MIT 2010
- PhD, Transportation Systems, MIT 2011
Research Interests
Logistics and transportation; aviation; healthcare analytics; healthcare systems modeling; building energy analytics; systems optimization; game theory; data-driven and statistical modeling
Selected Publications
- Sun, Y., U. Raghavan, V. Vaze, C. Hall, P. Doyle, S. Richard, and C. Wald (2021) Stochastic programming for outpatient scheduling with flexible inpatient exam accommodation. Health Care Management Science. Article in Advance.
- Wei, K., V. Vaze, and A. Jacquillat (2020). Airline Timetable Development and Fleet Assignment Incorporating Passenger Choice. Transportation Science, 54(1), 139–163.
- Antunes, D., V. Vaze, and A. Antunes (2019). A Robust Pairing Model for Airline Crew Scheduling. Transportation Science, 53(6), 1751–1771.
- Harder, R., K. Wei, V. Vaze, and J. Stahl (2019). Simulation Analysis and Comparison of Point-of-Care Testing and Central Laboratory Testing. Medical Decision Making: Policy & Practice, 4(1), 1–14.
- Yan, C., P. Swaroop, M. Ball, C. Barnhart, and V. Vaze (2019). Majority Judgment over a Convex Candidate Space. Operations Research Letters, 47(4), 317–325.
- Harder, R., and V. Vaze (2019). An Integer Programming Approach to Fisheries Observer Deployment. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 127, 132–149.
- Wei, K., and V. Vaze (2018). Modeling Crew Itineraries and Delays in the National Air Transportation System. Transportation Science, 52(5), 1276–1296.
- Jacquillat, A., and V. Vaze (2018). Interairline Equity in Airport Scheduling Interventions. Transportation Science, 52(4), 941–964.
- Cadarso, L., V. Vaze, C. Barnhart, and A. Marin (2017). Integrated Airline Scheduling: Considering Competition Effects and the Entry of the High Speed Rail. Transportation Science, 51(1), 132–154.
- Evans, A., V. Vaze, and C. Barnhart (2016). Airline-Driven Performance-Based Air Traffic Management: Game Theoretic Models and Multicriteria Evaluation. Transportation Science, 50(1), 180–203.
- Barnhart, C., D. Fearing, and V. Vaze (2014). Modeling Passenger Travel and Delays in the National Air Transportation System. Operations Research, 62(3), 580–601.
- Vaze, V., and C. Barnhart (2012). Modeling Airline Frequency Competition for Airport Congestion Mitigation. Transportation Science, 46(4), 512–535.
Awards
- Outstanding Paper Award in Air Transportation, INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society 2019
- Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award, National Science Foundation 2018
- Best Paper Award, 12th USA/Europe Air Traffic Management Research and Development Seminar 2017
- Pikarsky Award for Best PhD Dissertation in Science and Technology, Council of University Transportation Centers 2011
- Best Paper Award, 9th USA/Europe Air Traffic Management Research and Development Seminar 2011
- Graduate Research Award, Airport Cooperative Research Program 2010-2011
- Best Paper Honorable Mention Award, Anna Valicek Award for Original and Innovative Research in Aviation, AGIFORS 2010
- UPS Merit-based Fellowship, Center for Transportation and Logistics, MIT 2010-2011
- Presidential Fellowship, MIT 2005-2006
- President of India Gold Medal, IIT Bombay 2005
Professional Activities
- Member of the Scientific Committee for the Second Triennial Conference of the INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics society, Washington DC, May 2020
- Member of the Program Committee for the 1st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics for Air Transportation (AIDA-AT), Singapore, Feb 2020
- Member of the Advisory Board to INFORMS Vice President of Sections/Societies (Feb 2019–present)
- Secretary/Treasurer of the INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics society (Jan 2019–Dec 2020)
- Cluster Chair of the INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics society (Jan–Dec 2019)
- Cluster Vice Chair of the INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics society (Jan–Dec 2018).Associate Editor of Transportation Science (2018–present)
- Chair of the INFORMS Aviation Applications Section (AAS) (Jan 2017–Dec 2018)
- INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society Best Paper Award Committee Member (2018)
- Standing Committee Member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on Aviation Economics and Forecasting – AV040
- Standing Committee Member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on Airfield and Airspace Capacity and Delay – AV060
- Reviewer for several major journals including Management Science; Operations Research; Transportation Science; Computers and Operations Research; Annals of Operations Research; Production and Operations Management; European Journal of Operations Research; EURO Journal on Transportation and Logistics; Interfaces; IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems; Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association; Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice; Transportation Research Part B: Methodological; Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies; Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review; European Economic Review; Contemporary Economic Policy; International Journal of Industrial Organization; Applied Economics Letters; Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics; IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews; Journal of Infrastructure Systems; Journal of Air Transport Management; European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research; Transport Reviews; and International Journal of Business Analytics
- Reviewer for the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) Annual Symposium
- Reviewer for the IARCS Annual Conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science
- Reviewer for proposals submitted to the Decision, Risk and Management Science program of the National Science Foundation and for the proposal submitted to the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation
- Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect of the INFORMS Aviation Applications Section (AAS) (Jan 2015–Dec 2016)
- Secretary/Treasurer of the INFORMS Aviation Applications Section (AAS) (Jan 2013–Dec 2014)
- Organizer of the Aviation Stream at the Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS) (Jul 2014)
- Judging Committee Member for the INFORMS Aviation Applications Section’s Best PhD Dissertation Award (2013)
- Editorial Board of the International Journal of Business Analytics (Jan 2012–Dec 2014)
- Member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
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