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Muge Capan

Muge Capan

She/Her
Pronunciation: moo-geh
Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Data science, statistical analysis, and decision modeling in health care to develop smart and connected clinical decision support systems. Examples include development and evaluation of stochastic models to identify optimal treatment policies, and utilizing clinicians’ perceptions in clinical risk display decisions.

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Contact

Email: mcapan [at] umass [dot] edu
Phone: (413) 545-5735

Location

Engineering Lab (ELab)

160 Governors Drive
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA 01003
United States

Room 213D

Downloads & Links

  • Capan Lab Website
  • CV_Muge_Capan_0923.pdf

Research Areas

  • Healthcare and biomedicine

Related programs

  • Industrial Engineering
  • Engineering Management

Related departments

  • Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Education

  • PhD, Industrial and Systems Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 2014
  • MSc, Industrial Engineering, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2008
  • BSc, Industrial Engineering, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 2005

Awards and distinctions

  • NSF Smart and Connected Health (SCH) INT Collaborative Research Award, Principal Investigator, 2015-2018
  • National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 Award, Co-Investigator, 2016-2020
  • ACCEL Clinical and Translational Research (CTR) Pilot Grant, Principal Investigator, 2015-2017
  • ACCEL Clinical Translational Research (CTR) Shovel Ready Pilot Grant, Co-Investigator, 2017
  • NIGMS Delaware INBRE Award, Collaborator, 2014-2019
  • INFORMS Women in ORMS Family Care Award, 2019

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