GRANTS & AWARDS

GRANTS 

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National Science Foundation (PI) $574,126

“ISN2: Coordinated Interdiction for Disruption of Labor Trafficking in the Agricultural Sector” (2020 - 2022)

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National Science Foundation (co-PI)  $535,565

 “ISN2: Disrupting Human Trafficking via Needs Matching and Capacity Expansion” (2020 - 2022) 

National Institute of Justice, Travel Grant (PI)

“Human Trafficking Disruption: From Data Insights to Decision Making”

International Association of Crime Analysts Training Conference, Oxon Hill, MD (2019)

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Unchartered Software, Data-Access Grant (PI) 

“Modeling Online Sex Trafficking Networks for Effective Interdiction: Operations and Organizational Features” (2019)

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National Science Foundation, EAGER (co-PI) $166,098

“ISN: A Data Analytic Approach to Understanding Human Trafficking Networks” (2018 - 2020)

National Science Foundation, EAGER (co-PI) $320,969  

“ISN: Modeling Operations of Human Trafficking Networks for Effective Interdiction” (2018 - 2020)

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship $126,000 

"Improving operations research by developing techniques for incorporating large dat​a sets" (2013 - 2017)

Internal ---------------

Project-Based Exploration for the Advancement of Knowledge – Base Camp (Adviser) $1,000 (cumulative) - NU

• “Incorporating Societal Factors into Industrial Engineering Models” with undergraduate student Olivia Jonna (2020)

• “Human Trafficking Data Availability” with undergraduate student Leticia Reyes Gonzalez (2019)

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Mutual Mentoring Advancement Program (co-Lead) $1,500 - NU

“Mutual Mentorship for Faculty in Analytics for Eliminating Mental Health Crisis and Improving Critical Healthcare System” (2018)

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Graduate Student Community Grant (Recipient) $1,000 - Univ. of Michigan 

“Business in a Global World Workshop: Developing Cultural Awareness,” (2014)

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Rackham Travel Grant (Recipient) $4,600 (cumulative) - Univ. of Michigan 

• “Comparison of various chance constraints on the Inventory Modulated Capacitated Location Problem," INFORMS Annual Meeting (2016)

• "Incorporating Chance Constraints into the Inventory Modulated Capacitated Facility Location Model with Stochastic Demand," LAND-TRANSLOG III Workshop  (2016)

• "Temporal allocation policies for an inventory modulated capacitated facility location problem," INFORMS Annual Meeting (2014)

• "A new approach for integrating inventory into capacitated facility location modeling," INFORMS Annual Meeting (2013)

• "New Approach to Capacity Modeling in Location Models," ISERC Conference (2013)

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Contributor---------------

Minnesota Dept. of Human Services, (Contributor)  $5,000,000

 Regional Behavioral Health Crisis Program; Facilities Grants: (SF2161/HF2274)

 Awarded to: Olmsted County in partnership with Mayo Clinic (K.L. Maass Operations Research Lead), Olmsted Medical Center and NAMI Southeast Minnesota (2019)