Nathaniel Drew Bastian
Adjunct Teaching Professor
Data Science
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
United States of America
Biography
Education: PhD Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Pennsylvania State University MENGR Industrial Engineering Pennsylvania State University MS Econometrics and Operations Research Maastricht University BS Engineering Management (Electrical Engineering) United States Military Academy with Honors A leader, practitioner, researcher, and educator of quantitative, economic, computational, analytic, data-driven, and decision-centric methods to support the improvement of operational processes, decision-making, performance, and management in healthcare delivery systems, human resources, military operations, and humanitarian logistics. As an experienced operations researcher, data scientist, decision analyst and industrial engineer, my research involves the discovery and translation of data-driven, actionable insights into effective decisions using mathematics, statistics, engineering, economics, and computational science to develop decision-support models for descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics. Teaching is enjoyable because it gives me the opportunity to interact with and engage students intellectually by exposing them to the data analytic process of transforming data into actionable insight for more informative decision-making. I thoroughly enjoy teaching at WPI because I can help students become more effective problem-solvers to tackle some of the most complex, challenging problems facing our nation.
Research Interest
Health Data Science and Analytics; Healthcare Systems Engineering; Health Services Research and Health Economics; Productivity Analysis and Efficiency/Performance Measurement; Machine Learning, Statistical Computing and Simulation; Optimization Modeling and Decision Science
Publications
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Srinivas, S., Alizadeh, M. & Bastian, N. (2017). Optimizing Student Team and Job Assignments for the Holy Family Academy. Interfaces, 47(2): 163-174.
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Bastian, N., Ekin, T., Kang, H., Griffin, P., Fulton, L. & Grannan, B. (2016). Stochastic Multi-Objective Auto-Optimization for Resource Allocation Decision-Making in Fixed-Input Health Systems. Health Care Management Science. OnlineFirst, 1-19.
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Paradarami, T., Bastian, N. & Wightman, J. (2017). A Hybrid Recommender System Using Artificial Neural Networks. Expert Systems with Applications, 83: 300-313.
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Kang, H., Bastian, N. & Riordan, J. (2017). Evaluating the Relationship between Productivity and Quality in Emergency Departments. Journal of Healthcare Engineering, Article ID 9626918, 1-8.
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Bastian, N., Swenson, E., Ma, L., Suk Na, H. & Griffin, P. (2017). Incentive Contract Design for Food Retailers to Reduce Food Deserts in the US. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. Article In Advance, 1-12.
