Recent News

  • March 2023: Two of our papers were featured in ORMS Today articles.
  • October 2022: Our paper won first place in the INFORMS Case Competition!

Research

Working Papers:

  • 8. Income pools for Superstar Markets

    with Timothy Chan and Ningyuan Chen
    In preparation for Management Science, 2023

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

    with Rachael Walker
    Working paper, 2023
      Finalist, CORS Student Paper Competition (UG Category) 2023 [Awarded to Rachael]

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

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

Published Papers:

  • 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 Competition 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

Teaching

  • MIE263: Stochastic Operations Research

    University of Toronto, Teaching Assistant, Winter 2023

  • MIE368: Analytics in Action

    University of Toronto, Teaching Assistant, Fall 2020, 2021, 2022
      MIE Departmental Group Teaching Award 2021

Conferences

  • INFORMS Annual Meeting 2022
  • CORS Annual Meeting 2018, 2021, 2022
  • MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference 2022
  • New England Symposium on Statistics in Sports 2017, 2021
  • Sport Innovation Summit 2019, 2020

Selected Awards

  • 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