Core Faculty

Benjamin Armbruster

Benjamin Armbruster

Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences

2145 Sheridan Road

Tech

Evanston, IL 60208-3109

armbruster( at )northwestern.edu

Education

Ph.D. Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University, CA

B.S. Mathematics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

Research Interests

Engineering applications in health care

Selected Publications

  • B. Armbruster and A. M. Lucas, “Effectiveness of a no-sex or safe-sex month in reducing HIV transmission”, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, (2012)
  • B. Armbruster, S. Helleringer, L. Kalilani-Phiri, J. Mkandawire and H.-P. Kohler, “Exploring The Relative Costs of Contact Tracing for Increasing HIV Case Finding in Sub-Saharan Countries”, Jaids-Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, (2011)
  • S Helleringer;HP Kohler;L Kalilani-Phiri;J Mkandawire;B Armbruster, “The reliability of sexual partnership histories: implications for the measurement of partnership concurrency during surveys”, Aids, (2011)
  • Carlsson, J. G; Armbruster, B., “A bottleneck matching problem with edge-crossing constraints”, , (2010)
  • JG Carlsson;B Armbruster;YY Ye, “Finding Equitable Convex Partitions of Points in a Polygon Efficiently”, Acm Transactions on Algorithms, (2010)
  • B Armbruster, “Two Additional Implications of an HIV Nucleic Acid Testing Program With Automated Internet and Voicemail Systems to Deliver Results”, Annals of Internal Medicine, (2010)
  • S Agrawal, N Megiddo, B Armbruster, “Equilibrium in prediction markets with buyers and sellers”, Economics Letters, (2010)
  • Y XIE;B ARMBRUSTER;YY YE, “Dynamic Spectrum Management With the Competitive Market Model”, Ieee Transactions on Signal Processing, (2010)
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