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Hamsa Bastani

Hamsa Bastani, PhD

Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions, Associate Professor of Statistics and Data Science, The Wharton School

Research Interests:machine learning algorithms & applications to healthcare, revenue management, social good

About Hamsa

Hamsa Bastani is an Associate Professor of Operations, Information, and Decisions at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on developing novel machine learning algorithms for data-driven decision-making, with applications to healthcare operations, social good, and revenue management. Her work has received several recognitions, including the Wagner Prize for Excellence in Practice (2021), the Pierskalla Award for the best paper in healthcare (2016, 2019, 2021), the Behavioral OM Best Paper Award (2021), as well as first place in the George Nicholson and MSOM student paper competitions (2016). She previously completed her PhD at Stanford University, and spent a year as a Herman Goldstine postdoctoral fellow at IBM Research.

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