Leena Ghrayeb

PhD Candidate

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Biography

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Leena is a PhD candidate in Industrial and Operations Engineering, co-advised by Dr. Amy Cohn and Dr. Ruiwei Jiang. She is the recipient of the NSF GRFP (2021) and a Fulbright research grant, which allowed her to conduct research in Jordan during the 2023-2024 academic year. She is also an active member of the University of Michigan’s INFORMS student chapter, serving as President from 2022 – 2023.

Research Interests

Leena’s research is broadly focused on developing and applying optimization techniques to address challenging operational and decision-making problems in healthcare. Her dissertation research is focused on quantifying the effects of adopting novel prenatal care paradigms on clinics, and developing tools to guide decision-making regarding appointment scheduling policies and capacity planning for prenatal care.


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Education

  • B.S., Northern Illinois University, 2019, Industrial and Systems Engineering
  • M.S., Northern Illinois University, 2020, Industrial and Systems Engineering

Professional Society Memberships

  • Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE)
  • Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

Awards

  • Fulbright U.S. Student Research Award (Jordan), 2023
  • National Science Foundation Graduate Student Research Fellowship, 2021