Students
Setareh Darvishi
Setareh is a doctoral student in Industrial, Systems, and Manufacturing Engineering
at Wichita State University. Her research focuses on using 911 dispatch data, forecasting,
and optimization models to study operational strategies that improve workload balance
in Emergency Medical Services (EMS) systems. She is currently investigating how AI-assisted
optimization can support operational decision-making through faithful execution and
interpretable explanations.
Nico Ornelas
Nico's research focused on analyzing 911 dispatch data to characterize the (not so
typical) workday of an EMS crewmember. He applied statistical methods to visualize
the variability in the frequency and duration of tasks involved in providing emergency
care to the people of Sedgwick County. Nico will graduate with his Masters in Industrial
Engineering in May of 2026 and is already working at Boeing as an Industrial Engineer.
Graduated
Jenna Ercolani
Jenna started her research journey at Wichita State University as an undergraduate student. She worked on collecting and analyzing data about the workload of emergency medical systems (EMS) crews to identify metrics to measure workload in real time using dispatch data commonly available to EMS systems in the United States. Jenna applied statistical analysis, computer simulation and physics-based models to investigate the extent to which these surrogate measures represented perceived and design workload in these types of systems. Jenna graduated with her Masters in Industrial Engineering in 2025.
Franseira Maldonado
Fran's resaearch focused on modelign accessibility to healthy foods by taking into consideration daily life constraints that people may experience. She modeled accessibility to food as the distance that a person with specific needs and home/work locations would need to travel to get the food they need for their household in a given period. She used optimization to estimate this measure and simulation and GIS analytics to pilot the measure. Fran graduated with her Masters in Industrial Engineering in 2024.
Ali Adibi
ax1adibi @ wichita.edu
Ali is a researcher in the area of optimization in radiotherapy treatment planning. He got his bachelor degree in Industrial Engineering from Iran University of Science & Technology in 2011 and then completed his master's degree also in Industrial Engineering from University of Tehran in 2013. He joined Wichita State University in 2015 as a PhD student.
Lucy Aragon
lgaragon @ wichita.edu
Lucy is pursuing her Ph.D. degree in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Wichita State University. She received her B.S. in 2004 from Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, and her M.Sc. in 2010 from Clemson University, both in Industrial Engineering. Her research interests include analytics applications to patient safety and healthcare quality and model-based design analysis of healthcare operations.
Seyedali Mirzapourrezaei
sxmirzapourrezaei @ wichita.edu
Seyedali is pursuing his Ph.D. in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Wichita State University. He is from Mazandaran, Iran and received his B.S. in 2009 from Mazandaran University of Science and Technology (USTMB) and M.S. in 2013 from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), both majored in Industrial Engineering. He is currently working as a graduate research assistant in Health Systems Engineering Laboratory (HSEL). His research is focused on cancer treatment plan optimization, application of mathematical optimization to health care systems, and operation research.