Lab Members

Principal Investigator

Daniel Otero-León

Assistant Professor, Department of Systems and Information Engineering Courtesy Appointment, Department of Public Health Sciences

His research develops data-driven decision models for disease prevention, cancer management, and healthcare logistics to improve patient outcomes and health system efficiency.
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PhD Students

Wendy Qi

PhD Candidate, Systems and Information Engineering

Wendy Qi is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Systems and Information Engineering at the University of Virginia. She received her bachelor's degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of Virginia and her master's degree in Operations Research and Information Engineering from Cornell University.

 
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Viviana Milla-Angeles

Ph.D. Candidate, Systems & Information Engineering Provost Fellow
I am conducting research with Prof. Daniel Otero-Leon, focusing on healthcare applications for personalized medicine by developing disease prevention policies. Currently, I am working on projects related to mental health in children in the U.S. and how to apply mathematical modeling and stochastic…
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Constanza Lorca

PhD Candidate, Systems and Information Engineering

Constanza Lorca is a Ph.D. candidate in Systems Engineering at the University of Virginia. She has a background in Industrial Engineering and earned her undergraduate degree from Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Chile. Her research focuses on the use of operations research methods, including optimization, machine learning, and discrete-event simulation
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Gabriel Lawrence

PhD Student
I am a Ph.D Student working within Dr. Otero-Leon’s Otero Stochastic Systems Lab in Theoretical Operations Research with applications in Healthcare. Some examples of my current research are building new methods for dimensionality reduction, developing approaches to Markov Automata for improving…
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Master Students

Andrew Merrill

Master in Science Student, Systems and Information Engineering
I grew up in Mooresville, North Carolina, later attending NC State University and commissioning into the U.S. Air Force as an Operations Officer in 2021. I have been stationed in San Antonio, Texas, and Charlottesville, Virginia. I have also deployed to Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, and Osan Air Base…
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