2019 Project List
1. AB-InBev
A Data-Drive Approach to Forecasting the US Beer Industry
François Caprasse & Alessandro Scaglia | Faculty Advisor: Rahul Mazumder | Additional Advisor: Wenyu Chen
2. AB-InBev
Suggested Order Quantities for Convenience Stores
Antoine Roncoroni & Alexandre Saillard | Faculty Advisor: Negin Golrezaei | Additional Advisor: Andreea Georgescu
3. BCG Gamma
Customer Retention & Targeted Recommendations
Elizabeth Lim & Leonor Saitkoulov | Faculty Advisor: Nikos Trichakis | Additional Advisor: Patricio Foncea
4. Coca-Cola / Arca Continental
Portfolio Recommendation System for a Leading Coca-Cola Bottler
Srishti Gupta & Elisa Piscitelli | Faculty Advisors: Nikos Trichakis & Vivek Farias | Additional Advisors: Jonathan Amar & Patricio Foncea
5. General Motors
Tackling Congestion Using Connected Car Data
Leann Thayaparan & Julia van Hoogstraten | Faculty Advisor: Bart Van Parys | Additional Advisor: Julia Yan
6. General Motors
Zero Crashes Initiative
Rémi Lalanne & Jérémy Tran Kiem | Faculty Advisor: Bart Van Parys
7. GroupM
Project Peggy Olsen: Data Driven Creativity
Melody Fong & Jixin Wang | Faculty Advisor: Dean Eckles | Additional Advisor: Leon Yao
8. IBM Watson
Explainability and Bias Removal in Natural Language
Nader Hoballah & Annelise Steele | Faculty Advisors: Don Sull & Carine Simon
9. MBTA
Reducing Costs at The RIDE
Mason Grimshaw & Amal Rar | Faculty Advisor: Dimitris Bertsimas | Additional Advisor: Julia Yan
10. MFS Investments
From Unstructured Text Data to Interpretable Financial Prescriptions: An Optimization Approach
Pace Han & Tiantian Ye | Faculty Advisor: Dimitris Bertsimas | Additional Advisor: Ryan Cory-Wright
11. MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Optimizing Lab Procurement with Sparse Vendor Selection
John Stockdale & Kevin Talty | Faculty Advisor: Dimitris Bertsimas
12. MIT Lincoln Laboratory
USTRANSCOM Flight Data Analysis
Sheamus Larkin & Michael Rieker | Faculty Advisor: Dimitris Bertsimas
13. Quest Diagnostics
Predicting Disease from Longitudinal Laboratory Data
Antonin Dauvin & Michael Stern | Faculty Advisor: Dimitris Bertsimas | Additional Advisor: Michael Li
14. Rapid7
Anomaly Detection in the Cybersecurity Industry
Jocelyn Beauchesne & Johnny Oh | Faculty Advisor: Rahul Mazumder | Additional Advisor: Hussein Hazimeh
15. Rue Gilt Groupe
Navigation-Based Personalized Recommender System
Millie Huang & Vicky Liu | Faculty Advisor: Tauhid Zaman
16. StubHub
Guaranteed Sales
Gabriel Chua & Anita Zhang | Faculty Advisor: Georgia Perakis | Additional Advisors: Max Biggs & Rim Harris
17. StubHub
Personalized Event Recommendation
Andrew Huang & Iker Wang | Faculty Advisor: Georgia Perakis | Additional Advisors: Max Biggs & Rim Harris
18. Swiss Re
A Data-Driven Exploration of U.S. Life Underinsurance
Anthony Battista & Noah Hagen | Faculty Advisor: Carine Simon | Additional Advisor: Hari Bandi
19. TripAdvisor
Optimizing User Experience in Hotels Searches
Wendy Chiang & Nhi Nguyen | Faculty Advisor: Robert Freund | Additional Advisor: Renbo Zhao
20. Unilever
Demand Forecasting with a Segmented Approach
Stephen Chen & Jun Jie Ong | Faculty Advisor: Stephen Graves
21. Walmart
Improving Inventory Placement for Walmart E-Commerce
Jonah Adler & An Luong | Faculty Advisor: Stephen Graves
22. Wayfair
The Value of a Day: Optimizing Delivery Time
Rachel Holmer & Lisa Walz | Faculty Advisor: Georgia Perakis | Additional Advisor: Divya Singhvi