Dec 2020: Paper titled “Personalized Predictions for Unplanned Urinary Tract Infection Hospitalizations with Hierarchical Clustering” by Mao, Vahdat, Shashaani, and Swann was a finalist in 2020 INFORMS CONFERENCE ON SERVICE SCIENCE Best Student Paper Competition.

Oct 2020: Vahdat invited for the final round of poster competition in INFORMS Annual Meeting.