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DSLab Participates at INFORMS 2025

DSLab Receives Campus Climate Lab Research Funding

Three DSLab researchers will be funded by the Boston University Campus Climate Lab during the Fall semester. Their research aims to create a roadmap for green lab certification for interested BU teaching and research laboratories on the Charles River and Medical campuses. Its scope will encompass green chemistry, sustainable purchasing, and energy-efficient equipment procurement. In total, four students will do the research: MET student Xindi (Cindy) Liao (MS candidate in Enterprise Risk Management), MET student Xinyue (Yvette) Zhang (MS candidate in Supply Chain Management), CAS student Artemiy Yakushin (BS candidate in Chemistry), and ENG student Irene Skandalakis (BS candidate in Mechanical Engineering).

Photo caption: Artemiy, Irene, Cindy, and Yvette

DSLab Welcomes New Fall 2025 Researchers

The DSLab welcomes four new research team members for the Fall 2025 term. They are MET students Xindi (Cindy) Liao (MS candidate in Enterprise Risk Management), Xinyue (Yvette) Zhang (MS candidate in Supply Chain Management), Preethi Srinivasan (MS candidate in Supply Chain Management), and Jingran (Lily) Li (MS candidate in Supply Chain Management). Cindy and Yvette will work on a project, sponsored by the Boston University Campus Climate Lab, that creates a roadmap for green lab certification for interested BU teaching and research laboratories. Preethi and Lily will work on a project that creates a multi-criteria decision analysis method for hospital ancillary services outsourcing vendor selection. They join continuing research assistants Fangzhou (Luna) Xie and Yangyuechen (Fiona) Zhao (both MS candidates in Health Informatics).  

Photo caption: Cindy, Yvette, Lily, and Preethi

DSLab Participates at the Annual POMS International Conference

Five current DSLab researchers, two DSLab alumni, and DSLab director John Maleyeff participated in the annual Production and Operations Management (POMS) conference in Atlanta, Georgia (May 9-12). DSLab researcher Chenxi Feng delivered a presentation entitled “Integrating Sustainability and Inventory Practices for University Chemical Materials,” which was co-authored by BU Environmental Health & Safety staff members Ron Morales and Dawn Hengl (this project was funded by the BU Institute for Global Sustainability). DSLab researcher Fangzhou Xie delivered a presentation entitled “A Visual-Based Consumer Health Informatics Decision Support Methodology for Informed Patient Treatment Decisions,” which was co-authored by DSLab researcher Yangyuechen Zhao. DSLab researcher Shuting Peng delivered a presentation entitled “Multi-Criteria Supplier Selection Using a Unified Economic Scale,” which was co-authored by DSLab researcher Boyu Wang and Professor Dave Weidman. Prof. John Maleyeff delivered a presentation entitled “Choosing a Climate Risk Response for a University Facility Considering Ripple Effects,” which was co-authored by DSLab researchers Kunsinee Srivichaiin and Kaumudi Dande (who were unable to attend the conference). Also attending the conference were DSLab alumni Ruth Wootisarn (currently a PhD student at the University of Cincinnati) and Tianyu (Tina) Xu (currently a PhD student at The Ohio State University).

The annual POMS conference (https://pomsmeetings.org/conf-2025/) brings together faculty, graduate students, and practitioners from around the world to exchange ideas concerning operations management topics. Our participation at the annual POMS 2025 international conference underscores our commitment to advancing decision sciences and supply chain management research and practice.

For more information about the DSLab and our research, please visit https://sites.bu.edu/met-dslab/.

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Chenxi Feng to Deliver Presentation at the BU Institute for Global Sustainability

Chenxi Feng will be among the presenters invited to the BU Institute for Global Sustainability's Campus Climate Lab symposium on April 23, 2025. Her project concerns an evaluation of the chemical supply inventory across the two BU campuses (Charles River and Medical) that are used for research and education. The ultimate goal is to improve sustainability at BU and set the stage for My Green Lab certification.

DSLab Welcomes New Spring 2025 Researchers

The DSLab welcomes 3 new research team members for the Spring 2025 term.  They are MET students Fangzhou (Luna) Xie (MS candidate in Health Informatics), Chenxi Feng (MS candidate in Supply Chain Management), and Yangyuechen (Fiona) Zhao (MS candidate in Health Informatics). Luna and Fiona will do research on using visualizations of uncertainty to support patient-centered decision making for medical treatments. Chenxi will collaborate on a project supported by the BU Institute for Global Sustainability's Campus Climate Lab that creates more sustainable chemical inventory management practices at BU.   They join continuing research assistants Shuting (Tina) Peng (MS candidate in Enterprise Risk Management), Boyu (William) Wang (MS candidate in Applied Data Analytics), Kaumudi (Anu) Dande (MS candidate in Applied Business Analytics), and Kunsinee (Kelly) Srivichaiin (MS candidate in Supply Chain Management).  These 7 researchers, along with recent DSLab graduates Ruth Wootisarn and Rainy Xu, will attend the POMS (Production and Operations Management Society) annual conference in Atlanta (May 2025), where they will make 4 presentations.

Pictured: Chenxi, Fiona, Luna

DSLab participates at Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) conference

Four current DSLab researchers participated in the 2024 Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) conference held in Phoenix, Arizona (November 2024).  DSLab researchers Kunsinee (Kelly) Srivichaiin and Kaumudi (Anu) Dande presented a paper titled “Supporting Climate Risk Mitigation Decision Making For University Facilities.”  Shuting (Tina) Peng and Boyu (MK) Wang presented a paper titled “A Methodology for Incorporating Resilience into Supplier Evaluation.”  DSLab director John Maleyeff presented a paper (co-authored by Ruth Wootisarn , Zoe Zhang, and Jocelyn Wang who were unable to attend) titled "Metamodel Initialization of a Search Algorithm for Repair Kit Applications."

For more information about the DSLab and our research, please visit https://sites.bu.edu/met-dslab/.

DSLab participates at the annual INFORMS international conference, including a poster finalist

Six current DSLab researchers and three DSLab alumni participated in the 2024 INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) conference held in Seattle, Washington.  DSLab researchers Kunsinee (Kelly) Srivichaiin, Yu (Yura) Gao, and Kaumudi (Anu) Dande presented a poster that was chosen as a finalist in the poster competition titled “DSS for Climate Mitigation Using Indifference Probabilities to Measure Impact Utilities.”  Shuting (Tina) Peng, Po-Wei (Ben) Chang, and Boyu (MK) Wang presented a poster titled “BCFR: Incorporating Resilience into Better, Cheaper, Faster for Supply Chain Planning.”  DSLab alumni Ruthairut (Ruth) Wootisarn and Xueying (Jocelyn) Wang presented a poster titled “Metamodel Initialization of a Search Algorithm for Repair Kit Application.”  Xiaotong (Claire) Ding, another DSLab alumnus, also attended the conference.

The annual INFORMS conference (https://meetings.informs.org/wordpress/seattle2024/) brings together over 6000 faculty, graduate students, and practitioners from around the world to share and exchange ideas.  Our participation at the annual INFORMS 2024 international conference underscores our commitment to advancing decision sciences and operations research.

For more information about the DSLab and our research, please visit https://sites.bu.edu/met-dslab/.

DSLab Welcomes New Fall 2024 Researchers

The DSLab welcomes 3 new research team members for the Fall 2024 term.  They are MET students Shuting (Tina) Peng (MS candidate in Enterprise Risk Management), Boyu (MK) Wang (MS candidate in Applied Data Analytics), and Po-Wei (Ben) Chang (MS candidate in Supply Chain Management).  They will work on a project that will create a decision support tool for a supply chain manager to include the important consideration of operational resilience when choosing among a group of supplier candidates. They join continuing research assistants Kaumudi (Anu) Dande (MS candidate in Applied Business Analytics),, Yu (Yura) Gao (MS candidate in Applied Data Analytics), and Kunsinee (Kelly) Srivichaiin (MS candidate in Supply Chain Management).  The group, along with a few recent DSLab graduates, will attend the INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) conference in Seattle in October where they will present a poster, and the Decision Sciences Institute conference in Phoenix in November, where they will make a presentation.

Photo caption: MK, Ben, and Tina

DSLab researchers present their work at the BU Campus Climate Lab Symposium

Pictured: Yura, Anu, Kelly, Manpreet Singh (CCL), Profs. Weidman and Maleyeff

DSLab researchers Anu Dande, Kelly Srivichaiin, and Yura Gao prepared a presentation titled "Decision Support for Climate Mitigation Decision Making," that Anu and Yura delivered to participants at the BU Campus Climate Lab (CCL) symposium on April 10.  The presentation summarized their project, supported by CCL research assistantships, that developed a decision support system for BU facility managers who need help choosing among several climate risk mitigation options.  It includes both economic and behavioral elements, and it satisfies a BU Climate Action Plan recommendation that research be conducted in decision making methodologies associated with climate action decisions at BU.