Gabriel Zayas-Cabán

Associate Professor
University of Wisconsin
zayascaban@wisc.edu

Gabriel is an Associate Professor in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also holds an affiliate appointment with the BerbeeWalsh Department of Emergency Medicine in the School of Medicine and Public Health. His work spans healthcare delivery, stochastic modeling and optimization, and causal inference. His recent focus is on causal inference methods to evaluate the use of predictive models in healthcare. Before coming to Wisconsin, Gabriel was a President's Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan and completed his Ph.D. at Cornell University's Center for Applied Mathematics, advised by Professor Mark E. Lewis. He received his B.A. in Mathematics from the University of South Florida.

Curriculum Vitae

Submitted Papers

  • Zayas-Cabán G. and A.L. Cochran. ``A Randomized Routing Control for a Non-Stationary Finite Horizon Multi-Class and Multi-Server Queueing System."
  • David-Gomez, J.C., A.L. Cochran, and G. Zayas-Cabán. ``Unveiling Bias in Sequential Decision Making: A Causal Inference Approach for Stochastic Service Systems." (Preprint)
  • Alvarez-Avendano, S.A., A.L. Cochran, K.E. Kocher, B.W. Patterson, and G. Zayas-Cabán. ``Average Response Curves for Treatment Time in the Emergency Department." (Preprint)

Recent Publications

  • Nieser, K., B.S. Ortiz-Torres, B.S., G. Zayas-Cabán, A.L. Cochran (2025). ``REMLA: An R Package for Robust Expectation-Maximization Estimation for Latent Variable Models." Software X.
  • Acosta-Perez, F., J.J. Boutilier, G. Zayas-Cabán, S. Adelaine, F. Liao, B.W. Patterson (2025). ``Towards Real Time Discharge Volume Predictions in Multisite Healthcare Systems." JMIR.
  • Alvarez-Avendano, S.A. , A.L. Cochran, V.Y. Odeh-Couvertier, B.W. Patterson, M.N. Shah, and G. Zayas-Cabán (2025). ``Revisits, Readmission, and Mortality From Emergency Department Admissions for Older Adults With Vague Presentations: Longitudinal Observational Study." JMIR Aging.
  • David-Gomez, J.C., A.L. Cochran, B.W. Patterson, and G. Zayas-Cabán (2024). ``Evaluation of a Split Flow Model for the Emergency Department." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 26(3), 911-930. (Paper) (Supplementary Material) (Appendix)
  • Pfaff, A., A.L. Cochran, J, Vechinski, T. Molfenter, and G. Zayas-Cabán (2023). ``The Association Between Attitudes and the Provision of Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) in United States Jails." Drug and Alcohol Dependence Reports, 10, 100211. (Paper)
  • Alvarez-Avendano, S.A., O. Alagoz, J. Oruongo, and G. Zayas-Cabán (2023). ``Optimizing Patient Transitions to Skilled Nursing Facilities." IISE Transactions. (Paper)
  • David-Gomez, J.C., A.L. Cochran, M. Smith, and G. Zayas-Cabán (2023). ``Prediction of Rehospitalization and Mortality Risks for Skilled Nursing Facilities Using a Dimension Reduction Approach." BMC Geriatrics, 23(1), 394. (Paper)
  • Zayas-Cabán G. and A.L. Cochran (2023). ``Scheduling Servers in a Two-Stage Queue with Abandonments and Costs." Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, 37(3), 833-851. (Paper)

Contact

  • Room: 3011
    Mechanical Engineering
    1513 University Ave,
    Madison, WI 53706
  • +1(608)265-6761

Fernando Acosta-Perez

Fernando is a PhD student at the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (co-advised with Professor Justin Boutilier). He received his bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez and is interested in Operations Research. His current work is on using optimization and machine learning to improve hospital patient flow operations.

Jairo Alejandro Martínez Correa

Alejandro is a PhD student in the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from the National University of Colombia at Medellín, Colombia and his master's degree in Mathematics from the University of Antioquia in Medellín, Colombia.

Bryan Saúl

Bryan is a PhD student in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez.

Sebastian Alejandro Alvarez Avendaño

Sebastian is a Senior Associate in Applied Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at JP Morgan. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2023.

Juan Camilo David Gomez

Camilo is a Senior Associate in Applied Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning at JP Morgan. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2024.

Valerie Y. Odeh Couvertier

Valerie is a Manager of BIA GPS Cell Therapy Site Analytics with Bristol Myers Squibb. She received her Ph.D. in Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2024.