2021 Capstone Projects

  • Accenture

    Natural Language Processing for Customer Experience Evaluation

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    Students: Michelle Ong & Yueying Pan
    Faculty Advisor: Karen Zheng

  • Assurance IQ

    Fostering innovative outreach methods to engage with new and existing customers

    Video

    Students: Victor Jouault & David Liszewski
    Faculty Advisor: Amr Farahat

  • BMW Group

    Connecting the Dots: Matching Existing Solutions to New Defects

    Video

    Students: Daniel Cao & Chloe Lee
    Faculty Advisor: Retsef Levi

  • BMW Group

    Automating the quality control in car manufacturing using computer vision

    Video

    Students: Nonie Thomas & Annita Vapsi
    Faculty Advisor: Bart Van Parys

  • BMW Group

    Reprice with Confidence: Dynamic Pricing with Robust Time-series Forecasting

    Video

    Students: Pan Asavamongkolkul & Elva He
    Faculty Advisor: Negin Golrezaei
    PhD Mentor: Jason Cheuk Nam Liang

  • CloudZero

    Cloud Cost Prediction

    Video

    Students: Aarushi Bagga & Rui Tong
    Faculty Advisor: Daniel Freund

  • Coca-Cola Southwest Beverages

    True Sales Potential: Unleashing the untapped opportunity

    Video

    Students:
    Tico Han & Sydney Mo
    Faculty Advisor: Arnold Barnett

  • Columbia Threadneedle Investments (CTI)

    Quantifying Advisors Marketing Engagement and Predicting Quality Leads for Sales

    Video

    Students: Pierre-Louis Bourlon & Noé Mikati
    Faculty Advisor: Rama Ramakrishnan

  • Comcast

    Chatbot or Call? Optimal Contact Channel Selection for Customer Issue Resolution

    Video

    Students: Ani Hari & Rebecca Schubertruegmer
    Faculty Advisor: Rahul Mazumder

  • Corvus Insurance

    Automated Dataset Creation using PDF Text Extraction

    Video

    Students: Jack Schooley & John Lazenby
    Faculty Advisor: Hazhir Rahmandad

  • CVS Health

    Improving SMS Customer Experience through a Transformer-based Chatbot

    Video

    Students: Brian Hsu & Aaron Wang
    Faculty Advisor: Dimitris Bertsimas

  • General Motors

    Electric Vehicle as an Energy Reservoir: Vehicle-to-Grid

    Video

    Students: Garfield Jin & Tim Li
    Faculty Advisor: Georgia Perakis
    PhD Mentor: Leann Thayaparan

  • General Motors

    Understanding US Dealership Visitation through Automated Geofence Creation

    Video

    Students: Kiran Gite & Pei-Pei Kuo
    Faculty Advisor: Alexandre Jacquillat

  • GroupM

    Dynamic Promotion Optimization over Sparse Demand Regression

    Video

    Students: Matthew Garbecki & Jorge Quintanilla
    Faculty Advisor: Georgia Perakis

  • HANDLE Global

    The Hidden Cost of Healthcare: Transforming medical equipment management

    Video

    Students: Jean Bouteiller & Tristan Breyer Faculty Advisor: Alexandre Jacquillat

  • Hartford HealthCare

    Sleeve or Bypass? An Interpretable Method to Safely Select Bariatric Procedures

    Video

    Students: Keith Fleming & Shane Weisberg Faculty Advisor: Dimitris Bertsimas

  • Invitae

    Prediction and Optimization of Medical Billing Operations

    Video

    Students: Elaine Chen & Mindy Lin
    Faculty Advisor: Retsef Levi

  • Lincoln Laboratory

    Avert Disaster: Safety Modeling for the Military Sealift Command (MSC) Ships

    Video

    Students: Alex Psichas & Charlson Ro
    Faculty Advisor: Jordan Levine

  • Lincoln Laboratory

    Automating UAV Classification and Detection Through Signal and Image Recognition

    Video

    Students: Ani Murali
    Faculty Advisor: Jordan Levine

  • LogMeIn

    Budget Allocation Through Marketing AttributioN, a.k.a. BATMAN

    Video

    Students: Armando Hermosilla & Saksham Soni
    Faculty Advisor: Nikos Trichakis

  • MBTA

    Ridership forecasting and automated geocoding for paratransit ride services

    Video

    Students: Zach Garberman & Jake Martin
    Faculty Advisor: Dimitris Bertsimas

  • McKinsey & Company

    Knowledge video summarization through AI

    Video

    Students: Imane Farhat & Nassim Helou Faculty Advisor: Colin Fogarty

  • MFS Investments

    To meet, or not to meet, that is the question: Optimizing Interaction Strategies

    Video

    Students: Riccardo Coato & Olga Kyriazi Faculty Advisor: Colin Fogarty

  • Mass General Hospital (MGH)

    Interpretable Machine Learning to Alleviate Bias In Trauma Patient Disposition

    Video

    Students: Sumiran Thakur
    Faculty Advisor: Dimitris Bertsimas
    PhD Mentor: Hari Bandi

  • Neon Pagamentos SA

    Customer Relationship Network for Credit Default Prediction

    Video

    Students: Skandere Sahli & Arie Selinger Faculty Advisor: Stephen Graves

  • Pfizer

    Sharing is Caring: Investigation Load Balancing

    Video

    Students: Stephanie Franklin & Shaun Gan Faculty Advisor: Daniel Freund

  • Stake

    Price Prediction for the Dubai Residential Real-Estate Market

    Video

    Students: Arkira Tanglertsumpun & Yvonne Xu
    Faculty Advisor: Robert Freund

  • Takeda

    Understanding what causes suboptimal operational performance in clinical trials

    Video

    Students: Edoardo Italia & Denis Sai
    Faculty Advisor: Stephen Graves

  • Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc

    Empowering Sales Management with Potential Detection and Conversion Analysis

    Video

    Students: Hazel Sima & Peijun Xu
    Faculty Advisor: Dimitris Bertsimas

  • Unilever

    Personalized Marketing: Who, How, and When to Market Any Product at Target

    Video

    Students: Charles Bi & Raphael Chew
    Faculty Advisor: Amr Farahat

  • Wayfair

    Characterizing Intent Using Customer Journey: a Sequential and Graphical Model Approach

    Video

    Students: Arnaud Sarfati & Simon Weill Faculty Advisor: Georgia Perakis
    PhD Mentor: Omar Skali Lami