Society presents 2019 Innovative Applications in Analytics Award

A team of medical doctors, researchers and scholars from various institutions including Massachusetts General Hospital received the 2019 Innovative Applications in Analytics Award (IAAA) in recognition of their “creative and unique application of a combination of analytical techniques in a new area.” Presented by the Analytics Society of INFORMS and sponsored by Caterpillar and the Analytics Society, the IAAA-winning work was titled, “The Transparent Machine Learning Models for Predicting Seizures in ICU Patients from cEEG Signals.”

Members of the prize-winning team included Cynthia Rudin, associate professor, Duke University; Dr. Aaron Struck, Department of Neurology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health; Berk Ustun, postdoc fellow, Center for Research on Computation and Society, Harvard; and Dr. Brandon Westover, Massachusetts General Hospital.

The award, presented at the 2019 INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics and Operations Research, recognizes organizations for applications that feature novel combinations of descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics to achieve meaningful results.

Second place went to “Machine Learning: Multisite Evidence-based Best Practice Discovery” by Eva Lee, Matthew Hagen, Yuanbo Wang and Xin Wei of Georgia Tech, and Robert Davis and Brent Egan of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville.

The Verizon team of Hossein Abdollahnejadbarough, Kalyan Mupparaju, Vedat Akgun and Yanai Golany placed third for “Using Advanced Analytics to Rationalize Tail Spend Suppliers at Verizon.”