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)

Courses

• ENGS 103: Operations Research
• ENGS 93: Statistical Methods in Engineering

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