Maral Shahmizad, a Ph.D. student in Industrial Engineering and Management (IEM), and Dr. Austin Buchanan, associate professor of IEM, received an Honorable Mention Poster Award for Maral’s poster presentation Political Districting to Minimize County Splits at the 24th Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization (IPCO) Conference.
The overall goal of this project is to develop a first-of-its-kind, user-friendly and trustworthy virtual human testing platform that can quantify the inhaler performance in a low-risk, time-saving, disease-specific, and patient-specific fashion, thereby accelerating inhaler innovation with enhanced drug delivery efficiency to designated lung sites.