Faculty
Kayse Lee Maass, PhD (she/her)
Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering
Principle Investigator & Director of the Operations Research & Social Justice Lab
GRADUATE Students
Arezoo Jafari (she/her)
PhD Candidate- Industrial Engineering
Joined Team: Jan. 2019
Expected Graduation: 2023
Research Interests: Arezoo's research focuses on using operations research to address human trafficking. She is also interested in using supply chain design and network theory to interdict human trafficking networks.
Email: Jafari.a@northeastern.edu
Website: www.linkedin.com/in/arezoo-jafari
Nathan Adeyemi (he/him)
PhD Student - Industrial Engineering
Joined Team: Sept. 2019
Expected Graduation: 2024
Research Interests: Nathan's research is in operations research and its use addressing problems in the healthcare industry. Additionally, he is interested in simulation and stochastic modeling.
Email: adeyemi.n@husky.neu.edu
Priscila de A. Drummond (she/her)
PhD Student - Industrial Engineering
Joined Team: Sept. 2021
Expected Graduation: 2026
Research Interests: Priscila's current research focuses on modeling how collaboration among different stakeholders affects decisions in the Labor Trafficking context. Previously she has worked analyzing the efficiency of anti-violence against women's services in Brazil. The Operations Research model’s application for social good is her passion. Priscila is also a member of Tau Beta Pi, the oldest engineering honor society in the United States.
Email: deazevedodrummond.p@northeastern.edu
Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/priscila-de-azevedo-drummond-083a656
Yu Qiu (she/her)
ORSJ Lab Marketing & Design Lead
MPS - Analytics
Joined Team: Apr. 2022
Expected Graduation: June 2023
Research Interests: Learn and apply data analytics skills to improve marketing campaign performances and achieve organizational goals and objectives. Interested in learning how to use data analysis to solve social justice problems.
Email: qiu.yu1@northeastern.edu
Barış Tezcan(he/him)
PhD Candidate- Industrial Engineering
Joined Team: Sept. 2019 (PhD Program) Sept. 2018 (MS Program)
Expected Graduation: 2023
Research Interests: Barış’s current research focuses on network models and how they can be utilized for policy making against human trafficking.
Email: tezcan.b@northeastern.edu
Yaren Bilge Kaya (she/her)
PhD Candidate- Industrial Engineering
Joined Team: Jan. 2021
Expected Graduation: 2023
Research Interests: Yaren’s current research focuses on improving equitable access to housing and support services for runaway and homeless youth. She’s interested in applying operations research methodologies such as stochastic modeling, and linear programming to improve equitable access to public services and healthcare. Her aim with her research is to reduce the systemic barriers that prohibit vulnerable populations from having an improved quality of life.
Email: kaya.y@northeastern.edu
Victoria Okoria (she/her)
MS - Industrial Engineering
Joined Team: Apr. 2021
Expected Graduation: May 2022
Research Interests: Victoria is interested in applying operations research methodologies and machine learning techniques to social justice and equity issues within public policy, energy, and healthcare.
Email: okoria.v@northeastern.edu
Website: www.linkedin.com/in/victoria-okoria
Emily Schabel (she/her)
ORSJ Lab Project Manager
MS – Engineering Management
BS – Industrial Engineering ('22)
Joined Team: Dec. 2021
Expected Graduation: May 2023 (MS)
Research Interests: Emily works as the Lab’s Project Manager and oversees the progress of all research projects. She also manages lab logistics and ensures deadlines are met while also creating opportunities to expand lab outreach and connections both between lab researchers and the broader Northeastern community.
Email: schabel.e@northeastern.edu
Website: www.linkedin.com/in/emily-schabel
Undergraduate Students
Maggie Clark (she/her)
Explore Program
Joined Team: Jan. 2021
Expected Graduation: Spring 2024
Research Interests: Maggie is interested in interdisciplinary, community-based research related to food insecurity and human trafficking. She currently is the lead student researcher on the "Addressing Food Insecurity in Boston" project and is also involved in the H-2A and Labor Violation project.
Email: clark.marg@northeastern.edu
PAST Students
Ming Luo (she/her)
MS – Industrial Engineering with concentration in Data Analytics Engineering
Joined Team: May 2022 - Aug. 2022
Expected Graduation: May 2023
Renuka Kannan (she/her)
BS - Industrial Engineering
MS - Engineering Management
Joined Team: Jan. 2021 - May 2022
Graduated: May 2022
Post-Grad Position: Management Consultant at PwC
Maryam Rahman (she/her)
BS - Computer Engineering & Cognitive Psychology
Joined Team: Apr. 2021- Dec. 2021
Expected Graduation: Apr. 2024
Jackie Mills (she/her)
LEAD Student
Survivor Leader and Policy Advocate
Joined Team: Sept. 2021 - Dec. 2021
Project: Vicarious Trauma Training for Industrial Engineers
Joseph Pak (he/him)
BS - Computer Engineering
Joined Team: Sept. 2020 - Apr. 2021
Expected Graduation: May 2024
Alex Bender (he/him)
BS/MS - Industrial Engineering & Engineering Management
Minor - Psychology
Joined Team: Apr. 2019 - Aug. 2020
Graduated: May 2020
Post-Grad Position: Analyst, Boom Supersonic
Juan José Solano-Quesada
(he/him)
BS - Industrial Engineering
Minors - Consulting & Computational Data Analytics
Joined Team: May 2020
Expected Graduation: May 2022
Post-Grad Position: Business Strategy Analyst, DRAIVER
Kelly Szaniawski (she/her)
BS - Health Science
Minor - Business Analytics
Joined Team: Jan. - Apr. 2020
Graduated: May 2020
Post-Grad Position: Technology Associate Analyst, Johnson & Johnson
nwaobiala (they/them)
BS - Industrial Eng.
Minor - Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Joined Team: Jan. 2019 - Apr. 2020
Graduated: May 2021
Jahan Silverman (he/him)
BS - Economics and Mathematics
Minor - Computer Science
Joined Team: Jan. - Apr. 2020
Graduated: May 2021
Post-Grad Position: Implementation Consultant at Fast Enterprises, LLC
Olanrewaju Abdul-Hakeem Oloritun (he/him)
BS - Industrial Eng.
Minor - Consulting
Joined Team: Sept. - Dec. 2019
Expected Graduation: 2023
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Laura O'Donnell (she/her)
BS - Industrial Eng.
Minor - Business Admin.
Joined Team: Jan. - Apr. 2019
Post-Grad Position: Management Consultant, Point B
Elaine Klatt (she/her)
BS - Industrial Engineering
Minor - Spanish
Joined Team: Jun. 2020 - May 2022
Graduated: May 2022
Post-Grad Position: MICU Project Coordinator at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Sophia Mantell (she/her)
BS/MS - Industrial Engineering
Minor - Mathematics
Joined Team: May 2021 - May 2022
Graduated: May 2022 (BS) May 2023 (MS)
Cristian Eduardo Nava Lopez (he/him)
LEAD Student
Mechanical Engineering Student
Survivor & Research Assistant
Joined Team: Sept. 2021- Dec. 2021
Project: Developing a Survivor Research Advisory Board for Engineering Teams
Sundos Al-Husayni (she/her)
BS - Health Science
Minor - Biology
Joined Team: Sept. 2020 - Apr. 2021
Graduated: May 2021
Post-Grad Position: Research Assistant, Boston Children's Hospital; Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research
Jocelyn Zhu (she/they)
BS - Industrial Engineering
Joined Team: Sept. - Dec. 2020
Graduated: May 2022
Post-Grad Position: Manufacturing and Global Supply Chain, Bose
Paloma Calderon Villa
(she/her)
BS - Industrial Engineering
Joined Team: Jun. - Aug. 2020
Graduation: Aug. 2020
Post-Grad Position: Transformation Associate, Nepanoa
Jahaan Saini (she/her)
BS - Industrial Engineering
Minor - Entrepreneurship
Joined Team: Jun. 2020
Graduated: May 2021
Olivia Johnian (she/her)
BS - Industrial Engineering
Minor - Sustainable Business Practices
Joined Team: Jan. - June 2020
Graduated: May 2022
Leticia I. Reyes Gonzalez
(she/her)
BS/MS - Industrial Engineering & Engineering Management
Joined Team: Sept. - Apr. 2019
Graduated: May 2020
Post-Grad Position: Senior Analyst Business Operations, Dell Technologies
Maxim Petrovsky (he/him)
BS - Behavioral Neuroscience
Joined Team: Jan. - Mar. 2020
Graduation: May 2020
Post-Grad Position: Fulbright Fellowship
Max Peterson (he/him)
BS - Computer Science
Minor- Data Science
Joined Team: Sept. - Dec. 2019
Expected Graduation: May 2023