• March 2024: We came in First Place in the MIT SSAC research paper competition [video].

• April 2023: I am honoured to be selected as a Vanier Scholar.

• March 2023: Two of our papers were featured in ORMS Today articles.

Working Papers:

• 8. Income pools for Superstar Markets

  with Timothy Chan and Ningyuan Chen
  R&R, Management Science, 2024
  PDF

• 7. Aiming for competitive balance: Developing fair handicap systems for darts using a Markov decision process framework

  with Timothy Chan and Rachael Walker
  Working paper, 2024
      First Place, MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference (Oral) 2024
      Finalist, CORS Student Paper Competition (UG Category) 2023 [Awarded to Rachael]
  Video PDF (Preliminary)

Published Papers:

• 6. Equity, diversity, and inclusion in sports analytics

  with Timothy Chan et al.
  Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, 2023
  PDF

• 5. Moneyball for Murderball: Using analytics to construct lineups in wheelchair rugby

  with Timothy Chan, Albert Loa and Nathan Sandholtz
  INFORMS Transactions on Education, 2023
       First Place, INFORMS Case Competition 2022
      Media Coverage: ORMS Today
  DOI PDF

• 4. Advising student-driven analytics projects: A summary of experiences and lessons learned

  with Aaron Babier and Ian Zhu
  INFORMS Transactions on Education, 2023
      Media Coverage: ORMS Today
  DOI PDF

• 3. A Markov approach to untangling intention versus execution in tennis

  with Timothy Chan, Doug Fearing and Stephanie Kovalchik
  Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, 2022
      Finalist, MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference (Poster) 2022
  DOI PDF Video

• 2. Points gained in football: Using Markov process-based value functions to assess team performance

  with Timothy Chan and Martin Puterman
  Operations Research, 2021
      Second place, CORS Student Paper Competition (UG Category) 2018
  DOI PDF

• 1. Predicting plays in the National Football League

  with Timothy Chan et al.
  Journal of Sports Analytics, 2020
  DOI PDF Video

• Course Instructor

  MIE368: Analytics in Action                          Fall 2023

• Teaching Assistant

  MIE263: Stochastic Operations Research                Winter 2023, 2024
  MIE368: Analytics in Action                   Fall 2020, 2021, 2022
      MIE Individual Teaching Assistant Award (2022)
      MIE Group Teaching Assistant Award (2020)
  

• MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference                    2022, 2024

• INFORMS Annual Meeting                      2022, 2023

• INFORMS RMP                                2023

• INFORMS MSOM                               2023

• CORS Annual Meeting                      2018, 2021, 2022

• New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports                     2017, 2021

• NSERC CGS MSFSS ($6,000)                                                 2023

• Mitacs Globalink Research Award ($6,000)                                    2023

• TD MDAL Research Grant ($4,000)                                          2023

• NSERC Vanier CGS ($150,000)                                       2023-2025

• NSERC CGS D ($105,000) [Declined]                         2023-2025

• Wallberg Research Fellowship ($7,500)                               2022

• Ontario Graduate Scholarship ($15,000)                             2021

• NSERC CGS M ($17,500)                                                                2020