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Vikrant Vaze

Stata Family Career Development Associate Professor of Engineering

Program Area Lead: Mechanical, Operations & Systems Engineering
Research Affiliate, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT

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vikrant.s.vaze@dartmouth.edu

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

Wei, K., V. Vaze, and A. Jacquillat (2021). Transit Planning Optimization under Ride-hailing Competition and Traffic Congestion. Transportation Science. In Press.
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.
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

Associate Editor of Transportation 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