Graduate Research

Current Candidates

Year Degree Candidate Thesis Title
*2008 Ph.D. Ali Vahit Esensoy A Systems Dynamics model to Evaluate the Impact of the Provincial Ageing At Home Strategy
*2008 Ph.D. Shoshana Goldberg Chemo Therapy Scheduling
*2008 M.Eng. Agnita Pal Need for Supportive Housing and Community Support Services in Central East Local Health Intgration Network (CE LHIN)
*2008 M.A.Sc. Deborah Loach Simulation Model for a Colonoscopy Suite
*2008 M.A.Sc. Pamela Chan Estimating Wait Time in an Emergency Department
*2007 Ph.D. Julie Kim System Dynamics Modelling for Mental Health
*2006 M.Eng. Tammy Sieminowski Estimating Length of Stay for Complex Rehab Patients
*2005 Ph.D. Daphne Sniekers Perioperative Decision Support System
*2005 Ph.D. Sherry Oh Priority Patient Scheduling for Wait List Management

Past Candidates

Year Degree Candidate Thesis Title
2009 M.Eng. Jackie Achonu An Analysis of the Brachytherapy Suite at the Odette Cancer Centre
2009 Ph.D. Somayeh Sadat Theory of Constraints for Publicly Funded Health Systems
2009 Ph.D. Sonia Vanderby An Investigation into the Suitability of Applying System Dynamics to Patient Flow Modelling
2008 M.A.Sc Vincent Ling Design of a Balanced Scorecard to Measure Emergency Department Patient Flow in a Canadian Teaching Hospital
2008 M.A.Sc. Peggy Li Utilizing Discrete Event Simulation to Evaluate Colon Cancer Surgical Capacity
2008 M.A.Sc. Ali Vahit Esensoy Evaluation of the Demonstration Project to Direct Low Acuity Ambulance Patients into Urgent Care Centres to Improve Ambulance Availability
2007 M.A.Sc. Rasha Rashidi Modelling and Optimization of Patient Flow at the Diagnostic Imaging Department of Trillium Health Centre
2006 Ph.D. Arielle Lasry Modelling HIV Intervention funding allocations
2006 M.A.Sc Jean Yong Modelling Wait Lists for Cardiac Patients in Ontario
2005 M.A.Sc. Rodney Lau Fracture Clinic at North York General
2005 Ph.D. Holly Jin Scalable Sensor Localization Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks
2005 M.A.Sc. Caroline Chan Modelling Cardiovascular Services at Trillium Health Centre
2005 M.A.Sc. Govind Adaikappen Modelling the Neonatal ICU at Mount Sinai Hospital
2004 M.Eng Vivian Wong Simulation Model for Cardiac Patients in BC
2004 M.Eng. Melanie Lam Report on Information Privacy in Health Care
2004 M.A.Sc. Somayeh Sadat Design and Analysis of a General Systems Dynamics Model of Four Hospitals
2004 M.A.Sc. Renata Kopach Canadian Blood Services Inventory Analysis
2004 M.Eng. Joseph Kim Report on Information Privacy in Health Care
2003 M.Eng. Phu Vu “ADT System Reporting: Providence Centre”
2003 M.Eng. Jason Lin “An Analysis of Decision Support Requirements and the Design and its Implementation at Mount Sinai’s Temmy Laetner Centre for Palliative Care”
2003 M.Eng. Sandra Minatel "Validity and Location of Safety Stock of ‘A’ Items for Critical Care Units in a Healthcare Supply Chain"
2003 M.A.Sc. Carolyn Busby “Predicting Waiting Time for Home Care in Simcoe County”
2002 M.A.Sc. Yaron Derman “Mathematical Models for Predicting Hospital Bed Availability for the Following Day"
2000 M.Eng. Mowafa Househ "A Proposed Graduate Program for the Centre for Information Management and Technology in Healthcare"
2000 M.Eng. Adrian Kumar "Simulating Yard Traffic in a New Loblaws Companies LTD Distribution Centre"
2000 M.Eng. Bogdan (Paul) Ticu "A Comparison of Portfolio Selection Models Applied to the Toronto Stock Exchange"
2000 M.Eng. Larry Szeto "On the Use of PDAs at Baycrest Centre of Geriatric Care"
2000 M.Eng Erika Lafond-Lewis "Quantifying the Impact of Stochastic Variance on Total Production Time Estimations During Validation of Deterministic Factory Capacity Models"
1999 M.Eng. Edmond Chung "Managing Wait Time and Resource Utilization in a Home Care Centre: Simcoe County CCAC"
1999 M.Eng. Rebecca Chan "Managing Wait Time and Resource Utilization in a Home Care Centre: Simcoe County CCAC"
1998 Ph.D. Keith Jawahir "An Algorithm for the Continuous Caster Steel Scheduling Problem"
1997 Ph.D. Daniel Gordon "Improving Information Systems Design to Support Continuous Quality Assurance in Hospital" (Biomedical Engineering - Shared)
1997 Ph.D. John Blake "A Decision Support Model for Surgical Suite Management"
1997 Ph.D. Ardavan Asef-Vaziri "A Loop Material Flow System Design for Manufacturing Plants" (Co-supervised: C. Sriskandarajah)
1997 Ph.D. Kourosh Eshghi "Existence and Construction of a Graceful Valuation of 2-regular Graphs with Three Components" (Co-supervised: J.V. Abrham)
1997 Ph.D. Leo Lopez Garcia "Using Tabu Search for Scheduling the Hot Strip Rolling Mill in Steel Production"
1996 M.A.Sc. Mona Kiragu "Scheduling Therapist Personnel at a Sport Clinic: A Flexible Staff Scheduling System"
1996 M.A.Sc. Andrew Asa "A Decision Support System to Meet the Fluctuating Needs of a Hospital Nursing Unit"
1995 M.Eng. Christine Kahil "Optimization of Coil Slitting at a Brass and Copper Rolling Mill"
1994 M.Eng. Makoto Shibata "Engineering Task Assignment Problem"
1994 Ph.D. Dijian Zhou "A Polyhedral Approach for Solving the Distributed Module Assignment Problem"
1993 Ph.D. Sheldon Hu "An Optimization Model of a Printed Circuit Board Manufacturing Problem"
1993 M.A.Sc. Sharon Zhu "Hospital Census Control Through Operating Room Scheduling"
1992 M.Eng. Prasad Bhamre "Production Planning and Software Requirements: Upper Canada Brewing Company"
1991 M.A.Sc. Rhea Plosker "A Cost Model for Coal Fired Electrical Generating Stations"
1990 M.A.Sc. Laura Logan "Computerized Plant Layout Improvement Heuristic"
1989 M.A.Sc. Drew van Camp "A Nonlinear Optimization Approach for Solving Facility Layout Problems"
1988 M.Eng Victor Sitsch "A Hybrid Algorithm for Scheduling Secondary School Examinations"
1988 M.Eng. I. Y-H. Ng "Approaches to Network Decomposition"
1988 M.A.Sc. Nova Woodbury "Scheduling N Jobs on M Machines in a Deterministic Environment"
1987 M.A.Sc. Victoria Olds "A Continuous Approach to the Solution of a Class of Equality-Constrained Quadratic Zero-One Programming Problems"
1986 M.Sc. Stephen Shew "Cographics in Timetabling Problems" (Computer Science, shared)
1986 M.Eng. T. Alguindique "Improving Gomory's Fractional Cutting Plane Algorithm for Integer Linear Programming Problems"
1986 M.Eng. Keith Fuller "A Lagrangian Relaxation Approach to the Classroom Assignment Problem"
1986 M.Eng. K.A. El-Sahli "Experimental Results on a Hybrid Algorithm for Examination Timetabling"
1985 M.Eng. David Schell "Timetabling Application at Two Ontario High Schools with Cross-Registration" (Management Science, Univ. of Waterloo, shared)
1983 M.Eng. Zafer Buckey "Development of a Quadratic Integer Programming Algorithm for 'Multiple Choice' Equality Constraints"
1983 M.Math Frank Leddy "Course Timetabling Methods" (Combinatorics and Optimization, Univ. of Waterloo, shared)