AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
- 2023- Invited to present various model development works from my lab in multiple CDC internal meetings, DHP priority meetings with Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention leadership, cross-agency meetings with Housing and Urban Development (Professor Gopalappa, and students Hanisha Tatapudi, Xinmeng Zhao, Seyeddeh Nazanin Khatami).
- 2023- Invited to participate in joint CDC and NASTAD National Summit, National Cluster and Outbreak Detection and Response Implementation Learning Collaborative, Atlanta, June (Professor Gopalappa)
- 2023- Invited to present at Women in Data Science, Central Massachusetts @ WPI, March (Professor Gopalappa)
- 2022- Guest research appointment, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Professor Gopalappa)
- 2021- Invited to present at Turning Research Into Practice (TRIP), CDC’s center-wide seminar (Professor Gopalappa)
- 2021- Best paper award, IISE Modeling and Simulation Division -winner, IISE annual meeting (virtual under COVID-19), with student first author (*Sonza Singh).
- 2020- Engineering Racial Justice Curriculum Challenge- College of Engineering, UMAss Amherst, Fall 2020 (Professor Gopalappa)
- 2018- Finalist, Operations Research best paper competition -finalist, INFORMS, Phoenix, AZ, with student first author (**Matthew Eden, CHC student)
- 2018- Finalist, Lee B. Lusted student best paper award, Society for Medical Decision Making, Montreal, Canada with student first author (*Seyedeh Nazanin Khatami, MIE PhD candidate)
- 2018- Nominated by the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), for the CDC Charles C. Shepard Science best paper award (Professor Gopalappa)
- 2018- Invited by the World Health Organization (WHO) to serve on the Technical Expert Group for cervical cancer elimination- Meetings held at the WHO headquarters, Geneva, Switzerland, June 12 -17, 2018 and July 17-18, 2018, and Lyon, France, September 24-26, 2018. (Professor Gopalappa)
- 2016- National Academy of Sciences’ Kavli Frontiers of Science fellow (Professor Gopalappa)
- 2015- Nominee (student nominated) Distinguished Teaching Award (Professor Gopalappa)
- 2011- Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award, Institute of Industrial Engineers, 3rd Place (Chaitra Gopalappa)
- 2010- Finalist, Pierskalla Best Paper Award, Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS) (Chaitra Gopalappa)
FUNDING
- 2023-2024 Public Interest Technology fellow, UMass Amherst (PI: Muge Capan, Co-PI Chaitra Gopalappa, Jessica Boakye)
- 2020-2021 Funding: CDC $127K (PI: Chaitra Gopalappa) Cluster detection and response, August 2020
- 2020-2023 Funding: NSF # 1915481 $1.2 million (PI: Chaitra Gopalappa; co-PI: Peter Haas, Hari Balasubramanian, Dean Robinson, Jag Chhatwal; Collaborators: CDC and WHO) for developing new methods for multi-disease modeling, July 2019 NSF LINK UMASS CHC
- 2017-2023 Funding: NIH R01AI127236 $1.5 million (PI: Chaitra Gopalappa; Collaborators: CDC) for developing new models for HIV, July 2017 LINK
- 2015-2016 Funding: WHO $56K (PI: Chaitra Gopalappa): Decision-analytic tool for early detection of cancer in low and middle income countries, 2015 -2016 LINK
STUDENT NEWS
- Hanisha Tatapudi joins Merck as Data Scientist, 2022
- Nazanin joins Harvard medical school as post-doctoral fellow, 2022
- Dennish Hofmann accepts NSF NRT trainee fellowship/PhD student position at WPI, to start in Fall 2021
- Dennis Hofmann start internship, Summer 2021
- Shifali Bansal defends MS thesis and starts full-time at Amazon, July 2020
- Nazanin starts internship at FICO -in data analytics using reinforcement learning, Summer 2020
- Hanisha Tatapudi joins as Research Fellow, UMass Amherst, Spring 2019
- Shifali Basal accepts an internship position at Super Brush, Summer 2019
- Vijeta Deshpande starts a full-time job at Massachusetts General Hospital, 2019
- Vijeta Deshpande accepts an internship at Avenir Health, Summer 2018
- Buyan Munkhbat accepts an internship at Stanford University, Summer 2018