New Group in CBRC: Two New Books and Operations Research in Healthcare
By Prof. Mikhail Moshkov and Dr. Michal Monkowski, Computational Bioscience Research Center, KAUST
Sunday, November 22, 2020
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
On Zoom
Abstract
Our group joined CBRC in 2020. The aim of this presentation is to describe our research and show how it is related to CBRC goals. The presentation contains two parts.
In the first part, Mikhail Moshkov will discuss two new books:
- M. Moshkov, Comparative Analysis of Deterministic and Nondeterministic Decision Trees, Springer 2020
- M. Mankowski, M. Moshkov, Dynamic Programming Multi-Objective Combinatorial Optimization, Springer 2021.
In the second part, Michal Mankowski will discuss some applications of OR in healthcare. The organ transplantation field is a demonstrative example of the successful application of analytic tools to improve health and save lives. Kidney Exchange Programs (KEPs) organize the living donor kidney swaps. We showed how to design the scoring system for KEPs to guarantee the maximum number of kidney transplanted. The geographical inequality in a deceased donor liver allocation has to lead to multiple lawsuits in the U.S.
Using optimization, we show how to increase fairness in liver distribution at zero cost. We also introduced a new offering system for kidneys that expedite kidney allocation reducing organ waste. Our in-Kingdom efforts consist of projects related to the optimization of Saudi National KEP and modeling the SARS-CoV-2 spread in dialysis centers.
About the speakers
Mikhail Moshkov is a professor in the CEMSE Division since October 1, 2008. He earned a master’s degree from Nizhni Novgorod State University, received his doctorate from Saratov State University and habilitation from Moscow State University. From 1977 to 2004, Dr. Moshkov was with Nizhni Novgorod State University. Since 2003 he worked in Poland at the Institute of Computer Science, University of Silesia, and since 2006 also in the Katowice Institute of Information Technologies. His main areas of research are the complexity of algorithms, combinatorial optimization, and data mining. Dr. Moshkov is author or co-author of eight research monographs published by Springer.
Michal Mankowski, a postdoctoral fellow, is working on optimization and its application to healthcare operations. Michal has developed a new framework for multi-objective combinatorial optimization using dynamic programming. He has also been working on modeling U.S. organ allocation policies through his collaboration with a lab from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Currently, Michal works with a number of in-Kingdom clinical and governmental partners such as the Ministry of Health or the Saudi Center for Organ Transplantation to improve the health of the Saudi population.