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MSE students earned multiple awards at the 2025 Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS) Conference in Edmonton.Ìý À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ students received Bronze Level Recognition, while undergraduates Matthew Chan, Adel Pazoki, Aniq Premji, Sunischit Thapa, and Larissa Troper were runners-up in the national Student Paper Competition.

Individual accolades went to Esma Akgun and Mina Torabi Milani, both earning runner-up awards for their research.

A paper by a team of Management Science and Engineering researchers recently received an Honorable Mention (Top 4 Finalist) at the prestigious POMS College of Healthcare Operations Management (CHOM) Best Paper Award.ÌýThe paper addresses the challenge of hospital-acquired Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), which affects approximately 20,000 Canadians annually.

A paper co-authored by Management Science and Engineering professor Lukasz Golab and his Data Science Master’s student Anastasiia Avksientieva at the .Ìý This paper proposed a new data-driven method to assess bias in machine learning models.Ìý A model is explicitly biased if it is more accurate for some subgroups than others.Ìý For example, a biased healthcare model might generate more accurate diagnoses for younger or older individuals.Ìý However, even an explicitly unbiased model may be implicitly biased if it is harder for some subgroups to flip the model's decision to a favourable one.Ìý For example, what if married individuals whose loan applications were rejected would only need to increase their incomes by an average of ten percent to be approved, but single individuals would need 20 percent higher salaries?  In their paper, Golab and co-authors present a software tool that identifies implicit bias in prediction models, toward responsible deployment of AI models in practice.

Dr. James Bookbinder was the recipient of the 2024 Award of Merit from the Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS).

CORS brings together operational research professionals with annual conferences held across Canada, special interest groups, traveling speaker programs and student support. The Award of Merit is presented annually to a current or past member of CORS in recognition of significant contributions to the profession of operational research.

Mike Kirkup, Director of À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ's Velocity program, spoke to last Friday.

Congratulations to Management Sciences graduate students Danielle Nash (MASc) and Amir Gabriel (MASc) for being awarded À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ's 2012 President's Graduate Scholarship. Danielle and Amir were recognized and awarded at the Graduate Studies Awards Reception 2012.Ìý