Vikrant Vaze

Research Interests

Logistics and transportation; aviation; healthcare analytics; healthcare systems modeling; building energy analytics; systems optimization; game theory; data-driven and statistical modeling

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

Awards

• Best Paper Award, INFORMS Aviation Applications Section 2024
• Best Innovation Award, AGIFORS Crew Management Study Group Meeting 2024
• Ivy+ Provost Leadership Fellow Award 2024
• Outstanding Service Award for Faculty, Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth 2024
• Best Paper Award, INFORMS Aviation Applications Section 2023
• Transportation Science Meritorious Service Award 2022
• Best Paper Award, AGIFORS' Symposium 2022
• Woodhouse Excellence in Teaching Award, Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth 2022
• Society of Critical Care Medicine's Gold Snapshot Award 2021
• 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

• Associate Editor ofTransportation Science (2018–present)
• 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
• 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)
• Chair of the INFORMS Aviation Applications Section (AAS) (Jan 2017–Dec 2018)
• 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

Startups

Selected Publications

• Rashedi, N., N. Sankey, V. Vaze, and K. Wei (2024). A Machine Learning Approach for Solution Space Reduction in Aircraft Disruption Recovery. European Journal of Operational Research, upcoming.
• Cummings, K., V. Vaze, O. Ergun, and C. Barnhart (2024). Multimodal Transportation Pricing Alliance Design: Large-Scale Optimization for Rapid Gains. Transportation Science, upcoming.
• Cummings, K., A. Jacquillat, and V. Vaze (2024). Activated Benders Decomposition for Day-ahead Paratransit Itinerary Planning. INFORMS Journal on Computing, upcoming.
• Cadarso, L., and V. Vaze (2023). Passenger-Centric Integrated Airline Schedule and Aircraft Recovery. Transportation Science, 57(3), 813–837.
• Jacquillat, A., V. Vaze, and K. Wang (2022). Vertiport Planning for Urban Aerial Mobility: An Adaptive Discretization Approach. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 24(6), 3215–3235.
• Jacquillat, A., V. Vaze, and W. Wang (2022). Primary versus Secondary Infrastructure Capacity Allocation Mechanisms. European Journal of Operational Research, 303(2), 668–687.
• Yan, C., C. Barnhart, and V. Vaze (2022). Choice-Based Airline Schedule Design and Fleet Assignment: A Decomposition Approach. Transportation Science, 56(6), 1410–1431.
• Wei, K., V. Vaze, and A. Jacquillat (2022). Transit Planning Optimization under Ride-hailing Competition and Traffic Congestion.Transportation Science, 56(3), 725–749.
• Palsule-Desai, O., V. Vaze, V., G. Li, and S. Gavirneni (2021). Service Delivery Strategies for Alleviating Pandemic Suffering While Maintaining Profitability. Service Science, 13(4), 205–226.
• 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, 24(3), 460–481.
• Wei, K., V. Vaze, and A. Jacquillat (2020). Airline Timetable Development and Fleet Assignment Incorporating Passenger Choice. Transportation Science, 54(1), 139–163.
• 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.

Courses

• ENGG 390: Master of Engineering Management Project
• ENGS 103: Operations Research
• ENGS 93: Statistical Methods in Engineering
• ENGG 193: Statistical Methods in Engineering

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Mar 16, 2021

Joint Dartmouth-Hitchcock and Dartmouth Team Wins Society of Critical Care Medicine Award
Dec 16, 2020

Flying In The Face of Danger
Dec 01, 2020

Rethinking Flight Schedules for the Post-Pandemic World
Jul 24, 2020

Kudos: Excellence in Engineering and Computer Science
Jul 14, 2020

Vaze to Receive Endowed Professorship
Mar 03, 2020

Dartmouth Engineers and MIT Create New Airline Scheduling Tool
Jan 17, 2020

Vikrant Vaze Honored with Outstanding Paper Award
Oct 25, 2019

Dartmouth Engineering Student Honored with Airline Research Award
Oct 04, 2019

Dartmouth-Hitchcock awarded $3 million to develop new trauma technology
Oct 19, 2018

Airlines and Passengers Save Billions Through Crew Planning
Jun 06, 2018

New scheduling model puts airlines on equal plane while easing congestion
Mar 28, 2018

Engineering PhD Student Wins Anna Valicek Bronze Medal
Jan 17, 2018

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Mar 27, 2017

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