Leann Thayaparan joined Johns Hopkins Carey Business School as an assistant professor in fall 2024. Her research interests focus on the intersection of operations management, optimization and machine learning in the area of sustainability. By developing new algorithms for practice, she advances knowledge of how machine learning can be used to make optimal decisions with a specific focus on social good.
Education
- PhD, Operations Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- MBA, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- BSE, Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University
Research
- "COVID-19: Prediction, Prevalence, and the Operations of Vaccine Allocation" (with Georgia Perakis et al.), Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 25.3: 1013-1032., 2023
- "The Role of Optimization in Some Recent Advances in Data-Driven Decision-Making" (with Georgia Perakis et al.), Mathematical Programming: 1-35., 2023
- "COVID-19: A multiwave SIR-based model for learning waves" (with Georgia Perakis, Divya Singhvi and Omar Skali Lami), Production and Operations Management 32 (5) 1471-1489., 2023
- "Evaluation of individual and ensemble probabilistic forecasts of COVID-19 mortality in the US" (with Estee Y Cramer et al.), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119.15., 2022
Working Papers
- "The Role of Electric Vehicle Driver Behavior in Moving to Zero Emissions" with Georgia Perakis and Stacy Wang
- "Charging Fast and Slow: Quantifying the Real-Life Value of EV Charging for Users, OEMs, and the Grid" with Christian Kaps and Thomas Palley
- "Scaling EV Access Through Responsible Enforcement in Asset-Backed Lending" with Vikas Deep and Neha Sharma
Teaching
Current
- Data Analytics
Honors and Distinctions
- Marshall Fisher Best Platforms Paper Award, POM Journal 2026 - Runner Up
- The George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award 2024 - honorable mention
- POMS College of Sustainable Operations Student Paper Competition, 2024–second place
- MSOM Student Paper Competition, 2023–honorary mention
- MIT's ORC Best Student Paper Award, 2023–winner
- POMS College of Supply Chain Management Best Student Paper Competition, 2023–honorary mention
- Jeff McGill Student Paper Award, 2022–finalist
- Service Science Best Student Paper Award, 2021–second place
- ICSS Best Conference Paper Award, 2021–winner
- Doing Good with Good OR Competition, 2021–finalist
- Public Sector Operations Research Best Paper Competition, 2021–finalist