Veronica White, Ph.D.

Veronica White headshot
Assistant Professor
Office
Building B, Room B318
Educational History
Ph.D., Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2024
M.S., Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2019
B.S., Industrial & Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Iowa State University of Science & Technology, 2017
Research Interests
Optimization
Queueing
Simulation
Program Evaluation
Implementation Science
Awards, Honors, and Memberships

DAS/SDP Decision Analysis Practice Award, Finalist, 2022

INFORMS DEI Ambassador, 2022-2023

IISE Future Faculty Fellows (3F) Program, 2022

National Institute of Justice Research Assistant Program Fellowship, 2020-2021

Publications

White, V. M., Hunt, J., Green, B. A discussion of current crime forecasting indices and an improvement to the prediction efficiency index for applications. Security Journal. doi: 10.1057/s41284-023-00367-4.

Zhang, A., Balles, J.A., Nyland, J.E., Nguyen, T.H., White, V.M., Zgierska, A.E. (2022). The relationship between police contacts for drug use-related crime and future arrests, incarceration, and overdoses: a retrospective observational study highlighting the need to break the vicious cycle. Harm Reduction Journal, 19, 67. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12954022-00652-2

White, V. M., Avendano, S. A., Albert, L. A., Zgierska, A.E., Balles J., Zayas-Cabán G. (2021). The impact of a community-level initiative that promotes engagement in addiction treatment on recidivism. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 227. DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2021.108915

Zgierska, A. E., White, V. M., Balles, J., Nelson, C., Freedman, J., Nguyen, T. H., & Johnson, S. C. (2021). Pre-arrest diversion to addiction treatment by law enforcement: protocol for the community-level policing initiative to reduce addiction-related harm, including crime. Health & Justice, 9(1), 1-9. DOI: 10.1186/s40352-021-00134-w

Yoon, S., Albert, L. A., & White, V. M. (2021). A stochastic programming approach for locating and dispatching two types of ambulances. Transportation Science, 55(2), 275296. DOI: 10.1287/trsc.2020.1023

White, V. M., Molfenter, T., Gustafson, D. H., Horst, J., Greller, R., Kim, J. S., ... & Toy, A. (2020). NIATx-TI versus typical product training on e-health technology implementation: a clustered randomized controlled trial study protocol. Implementation Science, 15(1), 1-12. DOI: 10.1186/s13012-020-01053-4

Lee, S., Wei, S., White, V., Bain, P., Baker, C., & Li, J. (2020). Classification of opioid usage through semi-supervised learning for total joint replacement patients. IEEE Journal of biomedical and health informatics, 25(1), 189-200, Jan. 2021. DOI: 10.1109/JBHI.2020.2992973