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Kyra Gan is an assistant professor in the Department of Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell University. She completed her Ph.D. in Operations Research from Carnegie Mellon University in 2022, following a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics from Smith College in 2017. Her research focuses on developing robust, end-to-end frameworks for generating and implementing evidence-based personalized healthcare strategies. This work is driven by the unique challenges of healthcare applications, particularly in high-stakes decision-making scenarios with limited sample sizes. Kyra's methodologies include designing novel causal discovery algorithms and utilizing modern machine learning techniques to enhance nonparametric statistical methods for healthcare applications. She has a strong interest in the design of adaptive clinical trials and improving statistical inference methods across diverse settings. Additionally, Kyra collaborates directly with clinicians to address pressing challenges, including enhancing heart failure care and advancing interpretable clinical applications of machine learning.
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