Andrew C. Trapp
Assistant Professor, Operations and Industrial Engineering
Office:Washburn Shops, 207
Phone: (508) 831-4935
Fax: (508) 831-5720
atrapp@wpi.edu
Areas of expertise and interests in healthcare
- Operations research, constrained optimization
- Analytics and data mining
- Application of above methods to:
- Make strategic decisions
- Solve operational problems
- Improve understanding of underlying process dynamics
Current healthcare projects
- Resource scheduling in highly constrained environments
- Optimal scheduling of preventative interventions for chronic disease care
- Improving flow of hospital charts for same-day surgery
- Understanding why mentally ill patients may not seek medical treatment
- Analytical study of patient interactions with online medical portal
Future aspirations
Using optimization and analytics to improve lives at both the societal and individual levels.
