Joel Sokol (Georgia Tech ISyE)

Health/Medical Analytics

Z. Yu, P. Keskinocak, J. Sokol, and Y-H Chen, "Flexible Analytic Model to Inform Multi-Stakeholder Pediatric Vaccine Scheduling Decisions", Vaccine 40(52), pp. 7631-7639, 2022
E. Mark, D. Goldsman, B. Gurbaxani, P. Keskinocak, J. Sokol, "Using Machine Learning and an Ensemble of Methods to Predict Kidney Transplant Survival and Rank Predictive Variables", PLoS ONE 14(1) e0209068, 2019 (top-10% most cited PLoS ONE paper of 2019)
H.K. Smalley, N. Anand, D. Buczek, N. Buczek, T. Lin, T. Rajore, M. Wacker, S.V. Basavaraju, B.M. Gurbaxani, T. Hammett, P. Keskinocak, J. Sokol, and M. Kuehnert, "A Mathematical Model to Describe Survival Among Liver Recipients from Deceased Donors with Risk of Transmitting Infectious Encephalitis Pathogens", Transplant Infectious Disease 21(4), 2019
E. Mark, D. Goldsman, P. Keskinocak, and J. Sokol, "Using Machine Learning to Estimate Survival Curves for Patients Receiving an Increased Risk for Disease Transmission Heart, Liver, or Lung versus Waiting for a Standard Organ", Transplant Infections Disease 21(6), 2019
D. Strickland, E. Barnes, and J. Sokol, "Optimal Protein Structure Alignment Using Maximum Cliques", Operations Research 53, pp. 389-402, 2005

Sports Analytics

G.A. Muller, S. Hood, and J. Sokol, "Randomness, Uncertainty, and the Optimal College Football Championship Tournament Size", Journal of Sports Analytics 9(1), pp. 1-37, 2023
A.O. Ozlu and J. Sokol, "An Optimization Approach to Designing a Baseball Scout Network", European Journal of Operational Research 255 pp. 948-960, 2016
N. Streib, S. Young, and J. Sokol, "A Major League Baseball Team Uses Operations Research for Draft Preparation", Interfaces 42, pp. 1-12, 2012
P. Kvam and J. Sokol, "A Logistic Regression/Markov Chain Model for College Basketball Rankings, Naval Research Logistics 53, pp. 788-803, 2006
J. Sokol, "A Robust Heuristic for Batting Order Optimization Under Uncertainty", Journal of Heuristics 9, pp. 353-370, 2003

Other topics

P. Kerl, W. Zhang, J. Moreno-Cruz, A. Nenes, M. Realff, A. Russell, J. Sokol, V.M. Thomas, "A New Approach for Optimal Electricity Planning and Dispatching with Hourly Time-Scale Air Quality and Health Considerations", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112, pp. 10884-10889, 2016
D. Papageorgiou, M-S Cheon, G. Nemhauser, and J. Sokol, "Approximate Dynamic Programming for a Class of Long-Horizon Maritime Inventory Routing Problems", Transportation Science 49, pp. 870-885, 2015
D. Papageorgiou, A. Keha, G.L. Nemhauser, and J. Sokol, "Two-Stage Decomposition Algorithms for Single Product Maritime Inventory Routing", INFORMS Journal on Computing 26, pp. 825-847, 2014
S. Hackman, J. Sokol, and C. Zhou, "An Effective Approach to Integrated Learning in Capstone Design", INFORMS Transactions on Education 13, pp. 68-82, 2013
L. Houghtalen, O. Ergun, and J. Sokol, "Designing Mechanisms for the Management of Carrier Alliances", Transportation Science 45, pp. 465-482, 2011