Keeping Campus Open: Designing Mitigation Strategies with Biased Data
Unlike most universities, Cornell University reopened its Ithaca campus for in-person instruction in the Fall of 2020 during the COVID period and did so safely through the use of pooled testing. This decision and many others were guided by their mathematical modeling group. Shane will discuss some of the questions they explored, the models they built, the data that informed their models, and how they dealt with several central data issues. Cornell’s work "under fire" motivated the current work in exploiting biased data in epidemiological models.
Professor Shane G. Henderson holds the Charles W. Lake, Jr. Chair in Productivity in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering (ORIE) at Cornell University. His research interests include discrete-event simulation, simulation optimization, emergency services planning and transportation. He is the editor in chief of the open-access journal Stochastic Systems, an INFORMS Fellow and a co-recipient of the INFORMS Wagner Prize for his work on bike-sharing programs.
Fun Fact: Shane likes cats, climbing walls, biking, Harry Potter and being a Dad.