Research
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My main research interests include:

Physics of hospitals and healthcare systems
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Patient flow modeling, capacity planning for inpatient and outpatient services, performance modeling of pneumatic tube systems, real time census prediction.


Environmental and ecological informatics
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The last few years I've gotten interested in application of modeling and data analytics in the world of ecology and environmental science.
I'm a total newb in the area (even took some undergrad biology courses to fill in the gaps of my engineering background) but really enjoy 
learning about the fascinating world of ecological systems.


Data warehousing and data science
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Designing data warehouses for operational analyses, analysis of healthcare occupancy data, data preparation for analysis

Personnel scheduling
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Tactical tour scheduling, integrating scheduling and staffing models

`My ResearchGate site`_ contains info on publications and other projects.

.. _My ResearchGate site: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mark_Isken