About me

I am PhD student in Operations Research at the University of Toronto supervised by Prof. Timothy C.Y. Chan. My interests lie in both methodological aspects of mathematical optimization and its applications in healthcare.

In the past, I have worked on improving and automating treatment planning for external beam radiotherapy. Currently, I am interested in two very distinct problems: magnet design and 2D polygon packing!

The first involves generalizing the theory of magnet design to accommodate arbitrarily complex magnetic fields. This way, magnets for MRI-LINACS systems can be designed optimally for the first time. In the second (still a work in progress), I am formulating the 2D polygon packing problem as an optimization model to provide certificates of optimality for arbitrary packings. Erich Friedman’s page has many examples of such packings (including the famous Square Packing)- go check it out!