publications

2025

1. Working Paper

   Collaboration in Antitrafficking Efforts: A Network Interdiction Problem

   Priscila de Azevedo Drummond and Kayse Lee Maass

   2025

   Working Paper

   Abs Bib

   This paper models collaborative antitrafficking efforts using network interdiction, showing how multi-agency cooperation improves outcomes.

   @unpublished{drummond2025collaboration,
     title = {Collaboration in Antitrafficking Efforts: A Network Interdiction Problem},
     author = {Drummond, Priscila de Azevedo and Maass, Kayse Lee},
     note = {Working Paper},
     year = {2025},
   }

2. Working Paper

   Scoping Review of Collaboration and Multiple Attacks in Network Interdiction Problems

   Priscila de Azevedo Drummond and Kayse Lee Maass

   2025

   Working Paper

   Bib

   @unpublished{drummond2025scoping,
     title = {Scoping Review of Collaboration and Multiple Attacks in Network Interdiction Problems},
     author = {Drummond, Priscila de Azevedo and Maass, Kayse Lee},
     note = {Working Paper},
     year = {2025},
   }

3. Working Paper

   Unintended Consequences in Network Interdiction Problems: An Agricultural Labor Trafficking Problem

   Priscila de Azevedo Drummond, F. Miller, and Kayse Lee Maass

   2025

   Working Paper

   Bib

   @unpublished{drummond2025unintended,
     title = {Unintended Consequences in Network Interdiction Problems:
                       An Agricultural Labor Trafficking Problem},
     author = {Drummond, Priscila de Azevedo and Miller, F. and Maass, Kayse Lee},
     note = {Working Paper},
     year = {2025},
   }

4. Working Paper

   Active Learning Experiences: Teaching Fellowship Experience in IE

   Priscila de Azevedo Drummond and Kayse Lee Maass

   2025

   Working Paper

   Bib

   @unpublished{drummond2025teaching,
     title = {Active Learning Experiences: Teaching Fellowship Experience in {IE}},
     author = {Drummond, Priscila de Azevedo and Maass, Kayse Lee},
     note = {Working Paper},
     year = {2025},
   }

5. INFORMS

   Collaboration in Antitrafficking Efforts: A Network Interdiction Problem

   Priscila de Azevedo Drummond and Kayse Lee Maass

   In INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2025

   Session: Cooperation and Partnership in Public Services

   Bib

   @inproceedings{drummond2025informs,
     title = {Collaboration in Antitrafficking Efforts: A Network Interdiction Problem},
     author = {Drummond, Priscila de Azevedo and Maass, Kayse Lee},
     booktitle = {INFORMS Annual Meeting},
     year = {2025},
     address = {Atlanta, GA},
     note = {Session: Cooperation and Partnership in Public Services},
   }

2024

1. PLOS ONE

   Enhancing Detection of Labor Violations in the Agricultural Sector: A Multilevel Generalized Linear Regression Model of H-2A Violation Counts

   Amirhossein Jafari, Shenil Bhimani, Priscila de Azevedo Drummond, and 4 more authors

   PLOS ONE, 2024

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   This paper develops a multilevel generalized linear regression model to enhance detection of labor violations in the U.S. agricultural sector, focusing on H-2A visa program violation counts. The model leverages public data to improve inspection strategies and inform policy.

   @article{jafari2024enhancing,
     title = {Enhancing Detection of Labor Violations in the Agricultural Sector:
                       A Multilevel Generalized Linear Regression Model of {H-2A} Violation Counts},
     author = {Jafari, Amirhossein and Bhimani, Shenil and Drummond, Priscila de Azevedo and Nishigaya, Derek and Ding, Annie A. and Farrell, Ann and Maass, Kayse Lee},
     journal = {PLOS ONE},
     volume = {19},
     number = {5},
     pages = {e0302960},
     year = {2024},
     publisher = {Public Library of Science},
     doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0302960},
   }

2. Under Review

   Network Interdiction to Improve Labor Trafficking Detection in the U.S. Agricultural Sector

   Amirhossein Jafari, Shenil Bhimani, Priscila de Azevedo Drummond, and 2 more authors

   2024

   Under Review at \textitDecision Sciences

   Abs Bib

   This paper develops a network interdiction model to improve detection of labor trafficking in U.S. agricultural supply chains.

   @unpublished{jafari2024networkinterdiction,
     title = {Network Interdiction to Improve Labor Trafficking Detection in the
                       {U.S.} Agricultural Sector},
     author = {Jafari, Amirhossein and Bhimani, Shenil and Drummond, Priscila de Azevedo and Farrell, Ann and Maass, Kayse Lee},
     note = {Under Review at \textit{Decision Sciences}},
     year = {2024},
   }

3. INFORMS

   Modeling Strategies to Disrupt Labor Trafficking

   Priscila de Azevedo Drummond, Amirhossein Jafari, and Kayse Lee Maass

   In INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2024

   Bib

   @inproceedings{drummond2024informs,
     title = {Modeling Strategies to Disrupt Labor Trafficking},
     author = {Drummond, Priscila de Azevedo and Jafari, Amirhossein and Maass, Kayse Lee},
     booktitle = {INFORMS Annual Meeting},
     year = {2024},
     address = {Seattle, WA},
   }

2023

1. INFORMS

   Labor Trafficking Disruption with Collaborating Agents

   Priscila de Azevedo Drummond, Amirhossein Jafari, and Kayse Lee Maass

   In INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2023

   Bib

   @inproceedings{drummond2023informs,
     title = {Labor Trafficking Disruption with Collaborating Agents},
     author = {Drummond, Priscila de Azevedo and Jafari, Amirhossein and Maass, Kayse Lee},
     booktitle = {INFORMS Annual Meeting},
     year = {2023},
   }

2. INFORMS

   Breaking the Chains: An Innovative Network Interdiction Approach to Combat Labor Trafficking in Agricultural Supply Chains

   Amirhossein Jafari, Priscila de Azevedo Drummond, Shenil Bhimani, and 2 more authors

   In INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2023

   Bib

   @inproceedings{jafari2023informs,
     title = {Breaking the Chains: An Innovative Network Interdiction Approach to
                       Combat Labor Trafficking in Agricultural Supply Chains},
     author = {Jafari, Amirhossein and Drummond, Priscila de Azevedo and Bhimani, Shenil and Farrell, Ann and Maass, Kayse Lee},
     booktitle = {INFORMS Annual Meeting},
     year = {2023},
   }

2022

1. DSI

   Leveraging Public Data from Illicit Activities in Operations Research

   Priscila de Azevedo Drummond, Amirhossein Jafari, C. Childress, and 1 more author

   In Decision Sciences Institute Annual Conference, 2022

   Bib

   @inproceedings{drummond2022dsi,
     title = {Leveraging Public Data from Illicit Activities in Operations Research},
     author = {Drummond, Priscila de Azevedo and Jafari, Amirhossein and Childress, C. and Maass, Kayse Lee},
     booktitle = {Decision Sciences Institute Annual Conference},
     year = {2022},
   }

2. INFORMS

   International Migration and Human Trafficking Networks

   Priscila de Azevedo Drummond and Kayse Lee Maass

   In INFORMS Annual Meeting, 2022

   Bib

   @inproceedings{drummond2022informs,
     title = {International Migration and Human Trafficking Networks},
     author = {Drummond, Priscila de Azevedo and Maass, Kayse Lee},
     booktitle = {INFORMS Annual Meeting},
     year = {2022},
   }

2021

1. MS Thesis

   Optimization of Port-of-Entry Operation in the U.S.: An Anti-Human Trafficking Focus

   Priscila de Azevedo Drummond

   Apr 2021

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   This thesis engineers a Bayesian optimization model integrating cost-benefit analysis with statistical predictors to increase the accuracy of identifying human trafficking at U.S. border checkpoints.

   @mastersthesis{drummond2021thesis,
     title = {Optimization of Port-of-Entry Operation in the {U.S.}: An Anti-Human Trafficking Focus},
     author = {Drummond, Priscila de Azevedo},
     school = {University of Texas Rio Grande Valley},
     year = {2021},
     month = apr,
     address = {Edinburg, TX},
     type = {Graduate Thesis},
   }

2020

1. DSI

   U.S. Ports of Entry’s Decision Model with an Anti-Human Trafficking Focus

   Priscila de Azevedo Drummond and Hiram Moya

   In Decision Sciences Institute Annual Conference Proceedings, 2020

   Abs Bib

   This paper presents a decision model for U.S. ports of entry designed to improve identification of human trafficking cases at border checkpoints using Bayesian optimization and cost-benefit analysis.

   @inproceedings{drummond2020ports,
     title = {{U.S.} Ports of Entry's Decision Model with an Anti-Human Trafficking Focus},
     author = {Drummond, Priscila de Azevedo and Moya, Hiram},
     booktitle = {Decision Sciences Institute Annual Conference Proceedings},
     year = {2020},
     address = {Dallas, TX (virtual)},
     issn = {2471-884X},
   }

2019

1. MS Thesis

   Relative Efficiency Analysis of the Women’s Crisis Center Network in RS

   Priscila de Azevedo Drummond and Denise Lindstrom

   Aug 2019

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   This thesis applies Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to optimize resource allocation across women’s crisis centers in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, informing policy decisions affecting over 10 million residents.

   @mastersthesis{drummond2019thesis,
     title = {Relative Efficiency Analysis of the Women's Crisis Center Network in {RS}},
     author = {Drummond, Priscila de Azevedo and Lindstrom, Denise},
     school = {Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul},
     year = {2019},
     month = aug,
     address = {Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil},
     type = {Graduate Thesis},
   }

2008

1. UFRJ

   Analyses of Different Educational Strategies using Work-based Pedagogy at the Middle-school Colégio de Pescadores in Macaé, RJ

   Priscila de Azevedo Drummond, J. Rahal, and F. Amorim

   In 5o Congresso de Extensão da UFRJ, 2008

   Bib

   @inproceedings{drummond2008ufrj,
     title = {Analyses of Different Educational Strategies using Work-based Pedagogy
                       at the Middle-school {Col\'egio de Pescadores} in {Maca\'e, RJ}},
     author = {Drummond, Priscila de Azevedo and Rahal, J. and Amorim, F.},
     booktitle = {5o Congresso de Extens\~ao da UFRJ},
     year = {2008},
     address = {Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil},
   }