Meet YINS, 10/1/14

Meet YINS, 10/1/14

Speaker: 
Forrest Crawford & Vahideh Manshadi
Forrest Crawford: Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the Yale School of Public Health, Vahideh Manshadi: Assistant Professor of Operations in the Yale School of Management

Bio: 

Professor Crawford works on mathematical and statistical problems related to stochastic processes in epidemiology, public health, biomedicine, and evolutionary science.  His methodological and theoretical interests include networks and graphs, stochastic processes, computational statistics, optimization, and algorithms. His work finds practical application in the fields of public health, epidemiology, sociology, evolution and ecology, and genetics.

Professor Manshadi’s Research interests include real-time decision-making and dynamic optimization under uncertainty with various applications, such as online markets, health-care operations, and maritime port logistics, as well as matching markets and social networks.