Mission Statement:
Our goal is to use operations research, an optimization technique, to improve resource utilization. We identify organizational needs, help plan, schedule, and implement solutions that will make a lasting difference by effectively achieving operational efficiencies.
Example Work:
I developed code for two optimization problems to solve real-world issues. These projects can be found under the “Programs” tab.
- Optimal School Scheduler: This is an interactive program (takes in values and returns a solution based on those values, or it errors due to no possible solution) where an optimization algorithm creates a schedule for a school system. In the specific school system of this program, instead of the students moving through classrooms like in an American school, teachers move through classrooms to teach the students of a particular class, and this structure is common in other countries. This coding project could serve as a resource for small schools in other countries to create schedules.
- Optimal Workforce Shift Scheduler: This project provides an example that optimizes workers’ shift preferences within a two -week period with constraints stating the number of workers required on a certain day within the two weeks. Once scaled to a more interactive level to allow user input (which I am currently working on), this code would provide restaurant managers with a tool to effortlessly create schedules while simultaneously meeting workers’ shift preferences. The data was obtained from Gurobi.