Applied operations research. With the Eli Lilly Neuroscience Clinical Methods Team, develop and validate a computer simulation model to analyze the design of multicenter antidepressant clinical trials. A prototypical question is when to stop accepting new subjects given constraints and costs associated with final sample size.
Current efforts involve continuous decision variables and multiple constraints.
The approach is to generalize retrospective root-finding ideas developed previously in research with Huifen Chen. Outstanding Graduate Educator Award School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, May 1998. International Editorial Board, Industrial Engineering Research, 1996-present.