Lavanya invited to present paper from the IISE Outstanding Innovation in Service Systems Engineering award at the IISE Webinar.
October 2023
Paper “Impact of Aviation Electrification on Airports: Flight Scheduling and Charging”, with Boya Hou, Shubhonmesh Bose and Kiruba Haran accepted to IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
September 2023
Delighted that Xiyitao Zhu is recognized as a Ken Wang scholar 2023 by AGIFORS!
August 2023
Excited to speak in a panel discussion on “Opportunities at the AI/OR interface”, at IFORS 2023, along with Profs. David Shmoys, Michael Fu, Ahmed Abbasi; invited and moderated by Prof. Laura Albert. Wide variety of questions from the audience and a lively discussion followed.
July 2023
Honored to be awarded 3rd place in the 2023 IISE/SSE Outstanding Innovation in Service Systems Engineering award, for our work on personalized airline ancillary pricing. Congratulations to Naman Shukla, Akhil Gupta, Kartik Yellepeddi and Arinbjorn Kolbeinsson!
May 2023
Excited to receive funding from the JUMP-ARCHES program for our proposal “STREAM-ED: Simulation to Refine, Enhance, and Adapt Management of Emergency Departments”. Looking forward to our collaboration with Hyojung Kang, William Bond, Lisa T. Barker and Jonathan A. Handler!
May 2023
Enjoyed listening to the talks and speaking at the workshop on Bridging Learning and Algorithmic Fairness in the Operation of Urban Infrastructure and Network Systems, at CPS-IoT Week.
May 2023
Delighted to be a finalist for the 2023 IISE/SSE Outstanding Innovation in Service Systems Engineering award, for our work on personalized airline ancillary pricing!
April 2023
Excited to be giving the CAS lunch talk on March 22, “Next-generation Emergency Medical Service Design through Drone-Bystander-Ambulance Coordination“. Thank you CAS for the Fellows Award!
March 2023
Paper “Sensing in Airspace for Sequential O-D Network Routing” with Jing Gao and Ankur Mani accepted to Bridging Learning and Algorithmic Fairness in the Operation of Urban Infrastructure and Network Systems workshop.
March 2023
Paper “Derivation of a Unique Algorithm-based Approach to Cancer Patient Navigator Workload Management” with Xiyitao Zhu, Peng Zhang, Hyojung Kang, Marlene Granda, Rebecca Ebert-Allen, Sarah de Ramirez, Tenille Oderwald, Mackenzie McGee and Jonathan Handler accepted to Journal of Clinical Oncology: Clinical Cancer Informatics.
March 2023
Honored to be elected the Secretary/Treasurer of the INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society (TSL)!
October 2022
Lavanya quoted in Hannah Sampson’s article in the Washington Post. Our paper on proactive disruption management, with Jane Lee and Alex Jacquillat is cited. Thanks Hannah!
August 2022
Lavanya receives tenure at the University of Illinois!
July 2022
Lavanya to receive tenure at the University of Illinois, pending Board of Trustees approval.
May 2022
Paper “Airline OR Innovations Soar During COVID-19 Recovery”, with Laurie Garrow and Virginie Lurkin, accepted to Operations Research Forum, a Springer Nature journal.
February 2022
Lavanya is invited to speak at Vanderbilt University’s CEE Seminar. Topic of talk: “The Role of Predictions in Optimizing Airline Disruption Management: how Good is Good Enough?”
February 2022
Lavanya nominated and selected to serve on the INFORMS NSF Liaison Committee, a Governance (Marketing, Communications and Outreach) committee of INFORMS from Jan 2022-Dec 2023.
January 2022
Paper “Estimating Economic Losses from Cyber-attacks on Shipping Ports: An Optimization-based Approach”, with Gabriel Weaver, Brett Feddersen, Dan Wei, Adam Rose and Mark van Moer, accepted to Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies.
October 2021
Lavanya chairs the AGIFORS Annual Symposium. Check out the exciting agenda, with a significant focus on COVID-19 recovery, here!
September 2021
Paper “Short and Wide Network Paths”, with Profs. Lav Varshney and Devavrat Shah, and UIUC undergraduates Nirmal Prakash and Michael Gale, accepted to IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering. Congratulations to Nirmal and Michael on their first paper!
September 2021
Lavanya’s paper on the impacts of climate change on aviation operations, with student Jane Lee and collaborator Parth Vaishnav, featured by U of I News Bureau.
September 2021
Paper “Galactic Air improves airline ancillary revenues with dynamic personalized pricing” accepted to the INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics (formerly Interfaces). Congratulations to co-authors Arinbjorn, Naman, Akhil and Kartik!
July 2021
Paper “Dynamics of Disruption and Recovery in Air Transportation Networks” with Max, Karthik, Hamsa, and UIUC undergrads Sang, Darsh and Aritro, accepted to the CEAS Aeronautical Journal [DOI]. This paper was also awarded the Best Paper Award in the System Performance track at ICRAT 2020.
May 2021
Paper “The Impact of Climate Change on the Recoverability of Airline Networks”, accepted to Transportation Research – Part D [SSRN Copy][DOI].
March 2021
Lavanya invited to speak at Georgia Tech ISyE seminar. Topic of talk: “Strategic Service Games with Customer-induced Competition”.
March 2021
ORMS Today, INFORMS’ bimonthly magazine, publishes Lavanya’s article on aviation during and beyond COVID-19.
February 2021
Lavanya awarded the prestigious CAS Fellowship from the University of Illinois, approved by the Board of Trustees at the January 2021 meeting!
January 2021
Lavanya invited to serve on the Senior Advisory Board of AGIFORS, the international aviation OR society. January 2021
Paper “PenDer: Incorporating Shape Constraints via Penalized Derivatives” is accepted to AAAI 2021. Congratulations to Akhil, Ruoyu, Naman and Aninbjorn!
December 2020
Lavanya awarded the prestigious CAS Fellowship from the University of Illinois, pending Board of Trustees approval.
November 2020
Paper “Dynamics of Disruption and Recovery in Air Transportation Networks” wins Best Paper Award in the System Performance track at ICRAT 2020. Three UIUC undergrads are co-authors. Congratulations Max, Karthik, Hamsa, and UIUC undergrads Sang, Darsh and Aritro!
August 2020
Jane Lee deposits her dissertation “New Approaches to Airline Recovery Problems”. Congratulations Jane! July 2020
Paper “Managing EMS Systems with User Abandonment in Emerging Economies” accepted to IISE Transactions.
July 2020
U of I News Bureau features Lavanya’s work, joint with student Jane Lee and collaborator Alexandre Jacquillat: “Recovery from airline delays works best with future disruptions in mind“.
June 2020
Paper “Dynamic Airline Disruption Management under Airport Operating Uncertainty” published in Transportation Science: Articles in Advance [DOI].
June 2020
JUMP Arches grant for “Supply-driven Hospital Resource Planning and Community Engagement for COVID-19 Treatment” awarded to Lavanya and Prof. Qiong Wang.
May 2020
Paper “Robust Modeling and Planning: Insights from Three Industrial Applications” accepted to Operations Research Perspectives.
March 2020
Lavanya gives an invited talk in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at the University of California at Berkeley.
February 2020
Lavanya gives an invited talk in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering at Arizona State University.
February 2020
Paper “Dynamic Airline Disruption Management under Airport Operating Uncertainty” accepted to Transportation Science.
January 2020
JUMP Arches grant for “Optimizing Deployment of Community Health Workers” awarded to Lavanya and collaborators.
January 2020
Lavanya gives an invited talk in the Lyles School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University.
January 2020
Arinbjörn Kolbeinsson and Naman Shukla present our paper on “Leveraging Time Dependency in Graphs”, invited for Spotlight Presentation, at the Graph Representation Learning Workshop at NeurIPS 2019.
December 2019
Lavanya gives an invited talk in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Lehigh University.
December 2019
Lavanya conducts workshop on “Drone-enabled Emergency Services” at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, with Prof. Gitakrishnan Ramadurai.
November 2019
Lavanya gives an invited talk at the Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety (CHEPS) and the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan.
November 2019
Lavanya gives an invited talk in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Minnesota.
October 2019
Jane Lee defends her PhD Thesis, with only dissertation pending. Congratulations Jane!
August 2019
Kartik Yellepeddi from collaborator Deepair accepts the KDD startup award at the 25th ACM SIGKDD Conference, for our joint research. Congratulations Kartik and Deepair!
August 2019
Lavanya and collaborator Kartik (cofounder, Deepair) speak to the Illinois news bureau (article) about our KDD paper.
August 2019
Our paper, “An empirical analysis of bike sharing usage and rebalancing: Evidence from Barcelona and Seville”, is among the Top-10 cited publications in Transportation Research-Part A from 2016-2019.
June 2019
Naman, Kartik and Lavanya win the Best Presentation award at the AGIFORS Revenue Management Study Group conference for their presentation on “Dynamic Pricing for Airline Ancillaries with Customer Context”. Congratulations to the team! Thanks to deepair, our industry partner for an amazing lab-to-land research experience in this work!
May 2019
Paper on airline ancillary pricing methods using machine-learning, titled “Dynamic Pricing for Airline Ancillaries with Customer Context” accepted to the 25th ACM SIGKDD Conference on ACM Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, August 4-8, 2019. (Accept rate ~14%)
April 2019
Naman Shukla submits his Masters Thesis titled “Dynamic Pricing for Airline Ancillaries with Customer Context” to the UIUC College of Engineeering. Congratulations Naman!
April 2019
Lavanya quoted in Popular Science article on building airline schedules that are robust to delays. Mentioned in Dean Rashid Bashir’s Top of Mind: April 2019 email to the College of Engineering.
April 2019
Lavanya gives an invited talk in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the U of I.
March 2019
Lavanya gives an invited talk on “Dynamic Disruption Management in Airline Networks under Airport Operating Uncertainty”at the Workshop in Operations/Management Science at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.
February 2019
Lavanya chairs the Intelligent Transportation Systems Workshop at COMSNETS conference, Bangalore, Jan 11, 2019.
January 2019
Lavanya speaks at panel on “EMS in India: Challenges and Opportunities” at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras; organized by Prof. Gitakrishnan Ramadurai, Jan 10, 2019.
January 2019
Lavanya gives an invited seminar on “Dynamic Airline Disruption Management under Airport Operating Uncertainty” at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; Jan 9, 2019.
January 2019
Lavanya gives an invited short course on “Large-scale Optimization Problems on Transportation Networks”, at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; Jan 8, 2019.
January 2019
Lavanya speaks at the 6th ISB-POMS Workshop, Dec 20-21, 2018, at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.
December 2018
Lavanya, along with PI Naira Hovakimyan, Co-PIs Srinivasa Salapaka, Ranxiao Wang, Marco Pavone and Xiaofeng Wang awarded NSF Integrative grant “NRI: INT: COLLAB: Synergetic Drone Delivery Network in Metropolis”
September 2018
Lavanya’s group is grateful to DeepAIr Solutions for a gift grant!
August 2018
PhD student Jane Lee awarded an Honorable Mention for the 2018 Anna Valicek Competition conducted by AGIFORS, the Aviation Group of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies. Congratulations Jane!
August 2018
The News Gazette published a Wired-In article on Lavanya’s research. July 2018 New article New aircraft-scheduling models may ease air travel frustrations published by the Illinois News Bureau.
June 2018
Naman Shukla joins our research group. Welcome Naman!
May 2018
Lavanya to present joint work with Jane Lee and Alex Jacquillat at the AGIFORS Airline Operations Study Group, 21-24 May 2018.
May 2018
Lav Varshney to present collaborative work with Lavanya and Devavrat Shah on Information-theoretic Limits on Behavioral Speed in C. elegans and Ciona intestinalis, at Janelia Research Campus, 20-23 May 2018.
May 2018
Lavanya invited to speak at the GraphEx Symposium at MIT Lincoln Labs, 24-25 April 2018.
April 2018
Jungeun Shin wins the prestigious Chittenden Fellowship for the 2018-19 academic year, awarded to an outstanding MS graduate in ISE. Congratulations Jungeun!
March 2018
Lavanya’s invited article to Indian School of Business’ ISB Insight magazine discusses challenges for EMS in emerging economies – http://isbinsight.isb.edu/emergency-services-in-emerging-economies-challenges-and-first-steps/
February 2018
Peter McGlaughlin begins collaborating with our group. His primary advisor is Jugal Garg, and he collaborates with Lavanya Marla and Jungeun Shin. Welcome Peter!
January 2018
Lavanya and Co-PI Gitakrishnan awarded TSL Cross-Regional Collaborative Grant at the INFORMS Annual Meeting 2017, by the Transportation Science and Logistics Society (TSL). The grant is sponsored by Kalyx Warehousing.
October 2017
Lavanya presents work with Jane Lee, Kaushik Krishnan and Jungeun Shin at the INFORMS Annual Meeting 2017, Houston, TX, 22 – 25 October 2017.
October 2017
Lavanya presents two papers at the first TSL Conference, 26 – 29 July 2017.
July 2017
Kaushik Krishnan graduates with an M.S. degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE)! He is also the first student to have a concentration in the new Advanced Analytics program at ISE! Congratulations Kaushik!
July 2017
Lavanya conducts the first practice-based summit for emergency services in India on March 21.
March 2017
Lavanya gives invited talk at the Intelligent Transportation Systems Workshop of COMSNETS (International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks) 2017 in Bangalore.
January 2017
Welcome to Jungeun Shin, our new group member! January 2017 Lavanya invited to speak at the ISB-POMS conference.
December 2016
Paper accepted to Transportation Research – Part A. A. Faghih-Imani, R. Hampshire, L. Marla, N. Eluru, “An empirical analysis of bike sharing usage and rebalancing: Evidence from Barcelona and Seville”
December 2016
Jane Lee and Kaushik Krishnan present their research at the INFORMS Annual Meeting 2016, Nashville TN. November 2016
Our aviation work on flight planning integrated with airline recovery featured in ISE News.
October 2016
Lavanya attends the 9th TRISTAN conference. June 2016 PhD student Jane Lee defends her preliminary examination. Congratulations Jane!
April 2016
Kaushik Krishnan presents his work on optimizing emergency systems using risk metrics at the Intelligent Transportation Systems Workshop of COMSNETS (International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks) 2016 in Bangalore.
January 2016
Our research on emergency services in India featured in ISE News.
November 2015
Congratulations to Praveen Tumuluri for completing his MS degree, with thesis titled “A large-scale neighborhood search approach to vehicle routing pick-up and delivery problems with time-windows under uncertainty”.
July 2015
Congratulations to Guanqun Li for completing his MS degree, with thesis titled “Empirical Investigations of Properties of Robust Aircraft Routing Models”
July 2015
US-India Educational Foundation award for the project Cooperative-competitive, data-driven, operational strategies for emergency response systems in extremely resource-constrained settings in emerging economies (2015-2018)
June 2015
Paper accepted for publication in Transportation Science L Marla, B Vaaben, C Barnhart, “Integrated disruption management and flight planning to trade off delays and fuel burn”
January 2015
