{"id":3720,"date":"2025-03-03T16:01:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T21:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/business\/?p=3720"},"modified":"2025-03-03T16:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T21:06:11","slug":"professors-data-helps-students-study-optimization-methods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/business\/2025\/03\/03\/professors-data-helps-students-study-optimization-methods\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor\u2019s Data Helps Students Study Optimization Methods"},"content":{"rendered":"

During the COVID-19 pandemic, American cities spent hundreds of millions of dollars establishing makeshift hospitals to ease the burden on city hospitals. Although well-intentioned, hospital officials didn\u2019t know if these auxiliary facilities should serve in the pre-treatment or post-treatment of patients.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As a result, many makeshift hospitals were woefully underused. To establish best practices and optimization for their use in the future, Eyyub Kibis, assistant professor at the Feliciano School of Business in the Information Management and Business Analytics department, researched their use from April 2020 to September 2020. \u201cGod forbid if another pandemic happens in the future, our results might shed some light on how to use those makeshift hospitals and help officials make better plans,\u201d says Kibis.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

His data helped the students in his Optimization Methods for Business Analytics course understand resource allocation. \u201cWe\u2019re always talking about resource allocation and optimization.\u201d says Kibis. \u201cThis was an optimization model to efficiently distribute available resources, like money and hospital beds.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mathematical models and optimization methods might appear to be quantitative methods that are used exclusively in business, but Kibis tells his students they have other applications too. \u201cThey can be used for nonprofit and for-profit purposes,\u201d he says. \u201cWe are providing a service for officials that can be utilized during the time of a pandemic like COVID or Ebola.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Beyond optimization, Kibis has researched <\/span>data mining methods for biological diseases like cancer, which was not much different from his research during the pandemic. \u201cA cancerous cell spreads to nearby cells and then to the entire body. In a pandemic you have patient zero and the disease spreads to nearby patients. It becomes a pandemic,\u201d says Kibis. His cancer research resulted in an optimization method establishing best treatment models and schedules for stage two breast cancer patients. \u201cThese topics are related to optimization. In my optimization class we talk about minimizing disease,\u201d says Kibis.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2015, the United Nations established 17 global\u00a0Sustainable Development Goals. Kibis\u2019 research has contributed to its Good Health and Well-Being goal. \u201cMy research provides preventative measures. We try to minimize the transmission of disease and improve public health preparedness.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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