[IISE Faculty List] FW: Please encourage your students to participate in the IISE Data Analytics and Information systems division (dais) student data analytics competition

[Robert Wijaya]

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Dear Prof Nan Kong,

Happy New Year! I hope you had a restful holiday season.
Thank you very much for sharing this exciting opportunity with our faculty members.

My name is Robert Wijaya, and I am the Industry Collaborations and Partnerships Manager at the Engineering Systems and Design (ESD) pillar in SUTD.

I am reaching out to seek some clarification regarding the details of the competition. From my understanding, the selected finalists or teams will have the opportunity to run their codes, produce their results, and present their products in 2025 IISE Annual Conference & Expo, which will take place from May 31 to June 3, 2025, in Atlanta, USA. A blind vote cast by invited judges will determine the winner after the presentations.

I would like to inquire if the organiser will be covering the relevant costs associated with the overseas trip for those who are shortlisted as finalists. Specifically, will expenses such as flights and accommodation be provided for the finalists?

Thank you very much for your time and assistance. I look forward to hearing from you.


Best regards,
Robert WIJAYA (Mr)
Manager, Industry Collaborations & Partnerships

Engineering Systems and Design (ESD)
Singapore University of Technology & Design
E: robert_wijaya at sutd.edu.sg<mailto:robert_wijaya at sutd.edu.sg>
A: 8 Somapah Road, Singapore 487372
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From: "Kong, Nan via IEFac.list" <iefac.list at mailman.clemson.edu<mailto:iefac.list at mailman.clemson.edu>>
Date: January 8, 2025 at 9:12:53 PM GMT+8
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Subject: [IISE Faculty List] Please encourage your students to participate in the IISE Data Analytics and Information systems division (dais) student data analytics competition
Reply-To: "Kong, Nan" <nkong at purdue.edu<mailto:nkong at purdue.edu>>

Dear Colleague,

I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season. Please encourage your talented students to participate in this exciting competition. To many institutions you are affiliated with, the spring semester is about to start. You may consider publicizing this opportunity in the first class of any relevant course you are about to teach. This is a friendly reminder. The deadline of submitting the Letter of Intent is Jan 17, 2025.

IISE Data Analytics and Information Systems Division (DAIS) Student Data Analytics Competition – Nursing Home Time-Series Data Prediction Triathlon

The Data Analytics Competition is an annual student competition organized by the Data Analytics and Information Systems (DAIS) Division of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE). The main objective of the competition is to provide the students with the opportunity to learn, showcase, and enhance their data analysis and visualization skills through working on real-world problems with real-sized data sets.

Problem Description – Nursing home staffing hour prediction triathlon

Nursing homes in the United States provide the most comprehensive set of professional care a person can receive outside hospital. The care includes a range of coordinated medical, personal, and social services to meet the needs of residents who are chronically ill or disabled. Staffing adequately in a cost-benefit manner is vital to nursing home management in the United States. Since staffing cannot be adjusted in real-time, it is critical for each nursing home facility to make accurate half-a-month to one-month-ahead prediction on the staffing level from the existing staff, which can help them make intelligent hiring and HR decisions.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) provides public data sets, known as Payroll Based Journal Public Use Files (PBJ PUFs), containing daily nursing home staffing levels (often measured by staffing hours) and resident census data. Nursing homes must submit accurate staffing information, including agency and contract staff, through the PBJ system, based on verifiable payroll data, in a format specified by CMS. Facilities report the number of hours each staff member is paid to work each day. The quarterly PBJ data files are available beginning with data from the first calendar quarter of 2017. New data files will be uploaded to data.cms.gov on a quarterly basis. The public use files report information on staffing hours for each day in the quarter. The staffing data in the PBJ PUFs is aggregated to the facility-day. This means that all included facilities have one record (or row of data) for each day in a quarterly file. For more information, please visit https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdata.cms.gov%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2F2023-06%2FPBJ_PUF_Documentation_July_2023.pdf&data=05%7C02%7Ciefac.list%40mailman.clemson.edu%7C3bfa58228fc04a07e43b08dd315909ac%7C0c9bf8f6ccad4b87818d49026938aa97%7C0%7C0%7C638720980719541995%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=QCpyg1226x2kzEQmc34332s7ZVKTnphe10aYU7ig6LY%3D&reserved=0<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.com%2Fv3%2F__https%3A%2Fnam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com%2F%3Furl%3Dhttps*3A*2F*2Fdata.cms.gov*2Fsites*2Fdefault*2Ffiles*2F2023-06*2FPBJ_PUF_Documentation_July_2023.pdf%26data%3D05*7C02*7Ciefac.list*40mailman.clemson.edu*7Cfd06dc2002914d2a299c08dd2fae5a5c*7C0c9bf8f6ccad4b87818d49026938aa97*7C0*7C0*7C638719148075866524*7CUnknown*7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ*3D*3D*7C0*7C*7C*7C%26sdata%3DNqIkyqU5iyxoqtJhvvrC*2B5XH2frRMkgR9aZcoeLVow8*3D%26reserved%3D0__%3BJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSU!!DZ3fjg!5QU5gm1VHQMXRMrtq8pU0hb5Y7uIGicnnb_iA0rmgRgbxWLUEkubdBuaUzl88-3vSSLAdT88RWIbYEy88HDZ0AtfGUKg-w%24&data=05%7C02%7Ciefac.list%40mailman.clemson.edu%7C3bfa58228fc04a07e43b08dd315909ac%7C0c9bf8f6ccad4b87818d49026938aa97%7C0%7C0%7C638720980719559423%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ePxWa%2FnbfsFqr0BBEpTRFNO3k4NAGNBiqgvuoRM0Ooo%3D&reserved=0>.

Rules for this competition:

  1.  Training data set. Nursing staff (e.g., CNA, LPN, RN) data files belonging to 100 nursing homes in Indiana and Florida, US (where the two institutions the competition steering committee chairs are affiliated with are located at) will be released to the participating teams by Jan. 24, 2024. These files will contain data collected in the second quarter of 2024 (i.e., Q2 2024), the latest period with data available by the time of this announcement. The names of the selected nursing homes will not be released.
  2.  Prediction events. Three staffing hour quantities that can be derived from the data files will be announced as the three prediction targets (i.e., “induvial race in a triathlon”) together with several prediction performance metrics for each target. This is meant to give teams the leads to decide if they want to participate in this competition and perhaps a jump start as well.
  3.  Two-Phase Competition. The competition will contain two phases of judging based on the prediction results submitted. From phase 1, we will select four finalists. From phase 2, we will determine among the four finalists a first-prize winner, a second-prize winner, and two honorable mentions.
  4.  Phase-1 Judging. After participating teams submit their results for the phase-1 competition, the competition committee chairs will schedule a virtual meeting with each team to run their model/algorithm trained with the 100 nursing homes on the data of the same period collected from 20 other nursing homes in Indiana and Florida. Those 20 additional nursing homes will not be released to the teams ahead of time. However, the two chairs will ensure a relative unbiased selection of the 20 nursing homes as test data against the original 100 ones. Phase 1 is about spatial transferability of the prediction tool.
  5.  Phase-1 Scoring. All teams will be sorted based on the performance metrics. The team that has the worst prediction will be given 1 point. Then every team ranked one spot ahead will be given 1 more point until the top 3 high-performing teams, they will be given 2 more points than the team ranked one spot lower.
  6.  Phase-2 Judging. We assume a new data set will be released after the four finalists make their final submission together with the nursing home names. The two steering committee chairs will schedule a meeting with each finalist team at the conference to run their model/algorithm trained with the same 100 nursing homes on the newly available data.  Phase 2 is about temporal transferability of the prediction tool.
  7.  Phase-2 Scoring.  The four semi-finalist teams will be sorted based on the performance metrics. The four teams will be given 10, 7, 4, 1 based on their ranking in each category of performance metrics. The total score of each team will be the sum of their scores over all categories. The ranking based on the total score will carry 60% of the weight. The other two items will be the final report (20%) and the final presentation (20%).

Eligibility

  1.  Individuals or teams of a maximum of four members (no post-doc/faculty allowed).
  2.  Student members must be either undergraduate or graduate students from higher education institutes in the field of Industrial & Systems Engineering or related fields.
  3.  Student members should be enrolled at the time of the submission of the proposal.
  4.  At least one of the team members must be an active member of the Data Analytics and Information System (DAIS) division of IISE.
  5.  A team must submit a notice of intent to be eligible for the competition participation.

Competition Process
Notice of Intent
A team must submit a notice of intent to participate in the competition via email to the chairs of the competition steering committee by Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. The notice of intent needs to include:

  1.  The list of names of team members, their affiliations, and contact information (email and phone).
  2.  One team member is identified as the main contact.
The competition steering committee chairs will share the initial data sets of 100 nursing homes through email to the main contact provided by each team on Friday, Jan. 24, 2025.

Submission and Judging of the Results for Phase 1
For Phase 1, participating teams or individuals are required to submit their source codes and scripts via email to the chairs of the competition steering committee by Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. The competition steering committee will evaluate the submissions, and a maximum of top four teams will be selected as finalists. More details about the submission guidelines and review criteria will be released along with the initial data set. The committee chairs will judge each team in the first week of March. The four finalist teams will be notified by Friday, Mar. 7, 2025.

Submission and Judging of the Results for Phase 2
For Phase 2, the finalist teams will be given the full list of the 100 nursing homes on Monday, Mar. 10, 2025. This will give them more flexibility to adapt and refine their time-series prediction tool for the demand forecasting. The finalist teams or individuals are required to submit 1) source code and scripts and 2) final report via email to the committee chairs by Friday, May 2, 2025 (this date may be changed once we have an update on the release date of the data by CMS).

Final Presentation
The selected finalist teams and individuals will present the model motivation, model approach, and results at the 2025 IISE Annual Conference & Expo, May 31 – June 3, 2025, Atlanta, USA. More information on the final report and presentation contents will be provided to the finalist teams.

Evaluation Process

Approval of the Notice of Intent
The competition steering committee will review and approve or reject the submitted notices of intent to participate based on the eligibility criteria. Approval emails will be sent together with the dataset by the chair of the committee by Friday, Jan. 24, 2025.
Selection of Top Finalist Teams
The competition steering committee will select a maximum of four finalist teams. Finalist teams will be notified by email by the chair of the committee by Friday, March 7, 2025.
Selection of Winners
The selected finalist teams will run their codes, produce their results, present their products in 2025 IISE Annual Conference & Expo, May 31 – June 3, 2025, Atlanta, USA. A blind vote cast by invited judges will decide the winner after the presentations.
Recognition

  1.  Recognition at the Annual Conference:

     *   at the DAIS Town Hall Meeting

  1.  Certificate provided by IISE (either mailed or given at the town hall meeting) for the 1st prize winners.
  2.  2nd and 3rd prize winners will receive a digital certificate.
Recognition in ISE magazine
  3.  Recognition on DAIS webpage<https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.com%2Fv3%2F__https%3A%2Fnam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com%2F%3Furl%3Dhttps*3A*2F*2Fwww.iise.org*2Fdetails.aspx*3Fid*3D872%26data%3D05*7C02*7Ciefac.list*40mailman.clemson.edu*7Cfd06dc2002914d2a299c08dd2fae5a5c*7C0c9bf8f6ccad4b87818d49026938aa97*7C0*7C0*7C638719148075877625*7CUnknown*7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ*3D*3D*7C0*7C*7C*7C%26sdata%3DwJV8v5S0kRbaUjIXlgg7pRx021MQ2mXkzFqrl7ppJhw*3D%26reserved%3D0__%3BJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSUlJSU!!DZ3fjg!5QU5gm1VHQMXRMrtq8pU0hb5Y7uIGicnnb_iA0rmgRgbxWLUEkubdBuaUzl88-3vSSLAdT88RWIbYEy88HDZ0AuOT5lUuw%24&data=05%7C02%7Ciefac.list%40mailman.clemson.edu%7C3bfa58228fc04a07e43b08dd315909ac%7C0c9bf8f6ccad4b87818d49026938aa97%7C0%7C0%7C638720980719571057%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=MFBV%2FybwkAnqC2yC7un8X6jEeYTxMB5xfonoesNYeRY%3D&reserved=0> and in the newsletter

Important dates/deadlines

  1.  Notice of Intent: January 17, 2025
  2.  Competition challenge dataset for phase 1 made available: January 24, 2025
  3.  Deadline for submission for Phase-I judging: Feb. 28, 2025
  4.  Notification to the finalist teams: March 7, 2025
  5.  Competition challenge dataset for phase 2 made available to the finalist teams: March 10, 2025
  6.  Deadline for submission for Phase-II judging: May 2, 2025
  7.  IISE Annual Conference & Expo: May 31 – June 3, 2025

Competition Steering Committee Chairs
Nan Kong,<mailto:xchen325 at buffalo.edu> Purdue University
Mingyang <mailto:wangy88 at rpi.edu> Li, University of South Florida

Nan Kong, PhD
Professor
Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering
Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering
Purdue University

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