Data Driven Decision Making: How Cornell Successfully Opened Campus During a Pandemic

Thursday, February 18 | 8:00 – 10:00 pm EDT

To successfully manage an in-person fall semester during a pandemic, Cornell only had to turn to its own School of Operations Research & Information Engineering for a solution.

This real world challenge found its way into the classroom where students worked alongside faculty to develop the protocols that would allow Cornell to safely open campus.

Join us for an evening with the ORIE faculty and students that led the way in the fight against Covid-19.

Faculty Speakers:
Mark Lewis, Director of the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering
David Shmoys, Laibe/Acheson Professor of Business Management and Leadership Studies
Peter Frazier, Associate Professor Operations Research & Information Engineering
Shane Henderson, Charles W. Lake, Jr. Professor in Productivity
Oktay Gunluk, Professor of Practice Operations Research & Information Engineering

Student Participants:
PhD Students:
Jiayue Wan, Massey Cashore, Alyf Janmohamed, Yujia Zhang ’19, Connor Lawless 
Master of Engineering Student:
Vidhisha Nakhwa MEng ’20 
Undergraduate Students:
Anders Wikum ’21, Jody Zhu ’22

Moderator: 
David Goldberg, Associate Professor in Operations Research & Information Engineering