Research & Publications

My primary research interest is the applications of Operations Research in solving healthcare problems. My research is supported by:

• • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)   

  • Research Nova Scotia (RNS)

  • Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation (NSHRF)

Publications:

1. Optimising vaccine logistics in epidemic situations: An exact Benders approach

IFAC-PapersOnLine (2025)

2. Integrated location-inventory planning for slow-moving demand with waiting time limitations

International Transactions in Operational Research (2025)

3. Creating a guide to identify patients who may leave without being seen: A machine learning approach

Operations Research, Data Analytics, and Logistics (2025)

4. Combining simulation and machine learning for healthcare applications: A literature review

Journal of Simulation (2025)

5. Optimizing vaccine logistics: a taxonomy and narrative review

INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research (2025)

6. Multi-period, resource-constrained vaccine distribution and allocation to optimize epidemiological impacts

Operations Research, Data Analytics, and Logistics (2025)

7. Explainable machine learning to identify risk factors for unplanned hospital readmissions in Nova Scotian hospitals

Computers in Biology and Medicine (2025)

8. Improving a supplier's social responsibility: the effect of competition and incomplete visibility

International Journal of Production Research (2025)

9. Multi-objective planning of electric vehicles charging stations by integrating drivers’ preferences and fairness considerations: A case study in Halifax, Canada

Computers & Industrial Engineering (2025)

10. Developing a decision support tool to predict delayed discharge from hospitals using machine learning

BMC Health Services Research (2025)

11. A systematic literature review of predicting patient discharges using statistical methods and machine learning

Health Care Management Science (2024)

12. Planning of electric vehicle charging stations: An integrated deep learning and queueing theory approach

Transportation Research Part E (2024)

13. Alternate level of care patients in Canada: A systematic review

Canadian Geriatrics Journal (2024)

14. Machine learning to identify attributes that predict patients who leave without being seen in a pediatric emergency department

Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine (2023)

15. Day and Night: Locating the general practitioner’s panel after-hours

Applied Sciences: Decision Making with Geo-spatial Information (2023)

16. Polynomial-time algorithms for single resource stochastic capacity expansion models with lost sales

INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research (2021)

17. Workforce planning for community-based palliative care specialist teams using Operations Research

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management (2023)

18. A narrative literature review on human resource planning for palliative care personnel

Indian Journal of Palliative Care (2020)

19. A Lagrangian relaxation approach for stochastic network capacity expansion with budget constraints

Annals of Operations Research (2020)

20. Three strategies for engaging a buyer in supplier development Efforts

International Journal of Production Economics (2018)

21. A multi-stage stochastic programming approach for network capacity expansion with multiple sources of capacity

Naval Research Logistics (2016)

22. Stochastic capacity expansion with multiple sources of capacity

Operations Research Letters (2014) (Online Companion)

23. The p-center problem under uncertainty

Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering (2011)