- Operations Research
- Public Health
- Gender Equity
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Samira Shirzaei Nichols serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of CISA (Computer Information Systems and Analytics) at the College of Business, University of Central Arkansas (UCA), with contact details including email sshirzaei@uca.edu, office COB 305D, and phone (501) 450-5331. Her academic role integrates quantitative analytics with real-world problem-solving across public health, social equity, and business operations. Her research spans Operations Research, Public Health, and Gender Equity, employing machine learning, statistical modeling, and simulation to address epidemiological forecasting (HIV/COVID-19), gender pay disparities in academia/business, and service system optimization. Key methodologies include ARIMA/SARIMA time-series analysis, RNN neural networks, mixed-methods approaches, and Society 5.0 simulation frameworks, demonstrating interdisciplinary rigor in translating theoretical models to societal challenges like refugee health access and grocery store operational efficiency. Analysis of her 15 publications (2014-2025) reveals an accelerating focus on public health crises since 2020, with 60% of recent work dedicated to pandemic response modeling and gender equity analysis. While early research centered on supply chain optimization (2014-2018), post-2020 outputs pivot toward urgent health applications—evidenced by 5 COVID-19 forecasting studies—and structural inequities, using comparative data (2018 vs. 2021) to quantify gender pay gaps across academic disciplines. Her work consistently bridges technical analytics with human-centric outcomes. No information is available regarding student advising, grant funding, laboratory facilities, or research teams from the provided sources, though her prolific publication record indicates active scholarly engagement.








