Patrick Steele
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I am a Ph.D. candidate in Operations Research and Information
Engineering, working with professors `David Shmoys
<http://people.orie.cornell.edu/shmoys/>`_ and `Shane Henderson
<http://people.orie.cornell.edu/shane/>`_. My research focuses on
analyzing and solving a variety of vehicle routing problems. I am
interested in analyzing problems from both a worst-case and average
case perspective.


Research
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Courier delivery problem
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We consider the problem of efficiently scheduling deliveries by an
uncapacitated courier from a central location under online
arrivals. We consider both adversary-controlled and Poisson arrival
processes.


Air ambulance scheduling with Ornge
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

We work with `Ornge <http://www.ornge.ca>`_ to schedule daily air
ambulance flights across Ontario. We solve a mixed-integer program to
assign groups of patients to planes in order to minimize
transportation costs while ensuring that all patient requirements are
met.


Courses
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- `ORIE 5270: Big Data Technologies <orie-5270/index.html>`_

  Spring 2016. This course is designed as a companion course to ORIE
  5260: Machine Learning, and ORIE 5280, Financial Data
  Practicum. Students will utilize skills and knowledge from each
  course to complete projects spanning all three.

  This course is a part of `FDS@CFEM
  <http://www.orie.cornell.edu/orie/academics/master/cfem/fds-at-cfem.cfm>`_.

- `ORIE 6125: Computational Methods in Operations Research
  <orie-6125/index.html>`_

  Spring 2016. This course is designed to introduce Ph.D. students to
  data structures, algorithms, and software development methodologies
  useful for their research.


Software
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Some of the code I write is available on my `Github
<https://github.com/prsteele/>`_ page. Several interesting projects
are listed below.


`MDP <https://github.com/prsteele/mdp>`_
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

A Haskell package designed to solve infinite-horizon Markov decision
processes. The documentation (and package) is available on `Hackage
<https://hackage.haskell.org/package/mdp>`_.


`Emacs config <https://github.com/prsteele/emacs-config>`_
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

A repository containing my Emacs configuration directory. If you use
this configuration you will need to install a number of packages via
``M-x list-packages`` or similar.


`Cornell Beamer theme <https://github.com/prsteele/cornell-beamer>`_
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

A Beamer theme suitable for presentations made by anyone from Cornell.