Danielle Song wins best graduate student poster award at the Northeast Decision Sciences Institute conference.
Danielle Song (M.S. student in Applied Business Analytics) won the best graduate student poster award at the 52nd Northeast Decision Sciences Institute (NEDSI) conference in Newark, New Jersey, on April 8, 2022. Danielle’s poster, entitled “MBTA Winter Storm Planning: Slick Road Prediction Model,” focused on her application of machine learning methods to assist the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) by creating a more timely and accurate decision support system for allocating labor and equipment resources in preparation for inclement weather. This project has been an ongoing effort by the Metropolitan College Decision Sciences Research Lab (DSLab), which is co-directed by Prof. Canan Corlu and Prof. John Maleyeff. Seven other DSLab researchers accompanied Ms. Song and Dr. Maleyeff to the conference, with DSLab researchers delivering two other presentations. Pennart Klanwari (M.S. student in Supply Chain Management) presented a paper entitled “Climate Change Impacts on Boston Hospitals,” which was co-authored by recent Supply Chain Management graduate Jiayi Pan, along with Dr. Corlu and Prof. Dave Weidman. Claire Ding (M.S. student in Applied Business Analytics) presented a paper entitled “Severity Prediction Models to Support MBTA Winter Storm Planning,” which gave a more comprehensive overview of the MBTA project. This paper was co-authored by recent Applied Business Analytics graduate Ruojia Peng, along with Ms. Song and Dr. Maleyeff. MBTA risk management director Frans Valk and MBTA emergency management director Mark Munroe collaborated on this project. More information about the DSLab and its research projects can be found on this site: https://sites.bu.edu/met-dslab/.
DSLab research assistants attended the NEDSI conference (April 2022). Pictured (left-to-right): Adrian Perez, Grace Niu, Danielle Song, Claire Ding, David Kuo, Jingran Xu, Caroline Tan, and Pennart Klanwari.