Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Benjamin Ravenscroft, an MASc student in the Health AI and Analytics lab, supervised by Professor Hossein Abouee Mehrizi, competed in the finals of the the Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS) Student Paper Competition - Open Category and was awarded the Honourable mention for his paper titled "Reducing Diagnostic Imaging Wait Times: Lessons from a Large-Scale Empirical Analysis".
Each year CORS conducts a student paper competition to recognize the contribution of a paper either directly to the field of operational research through the development of methodology or to another field through the application of operational research. The competition serves to showcase the high quality of OR education in Canada as well as the excellence of the new generation of operational researchers.