Associate Professor 322 ELab University of Massachusetts 160 Governors Drive Amherst, MA 01003-2210 hbalasubraman@ecs.umass.edu(413) 577-3208(413) 545-1027Academic WebsiteHorizontal TabsEducation B.E: Production Engineering, Regional Engineering College, Trichy, India, 2000 M.S: Industrial Engineering, Arizona State University, 2002 Ph.D: Industrial Engineering, Arizona State University, 2006 Research Operations research applied to healthcare delivery, specifically patient access management and medical decision making and health policy; scheduling theory and algorithms; combinatorial optimization; heuristics; genetic algorithms. Program Area: Industrial EngineeringResearch Area: Biomedical & Healthcare EngineeringSystems Engineering Publications Please see my Google Scholar page. Honors NSF CAREER Award, 2013-2018 IE Professor of the Year Award (student elected), 2012, 2013, and 2014 Program Chair, INFORMS Healthcare Conference, June 2013 General Chair, INFORMS Northeastern Regional Conference, Amherst, MA, May 2011 Finalist, Doing Good with Operations Research Competition, Institute of Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), 2010, for the paper, “Optimization of Prostate Biopsy Referral Decisions” Finalist, Pierskalla Award for Healthcare Operations Management, Institute of Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), 2010, for the paper, “Optimization of Prostate Biopsy Referral Decisions” Area Editor, IIE Transactions LinksCV: February 2017 CV
