Cassie Buhler, Ph.D. (she/her)

Cassie Buhler, Ph.D. (she/her)

Papers

Publications

California’s 30 x 30 Initiative at its Midpoint: A Biodiversity Assessment Snapshot of the State’s Conservation Areas

Jeanette Howard, Carrie Schloss, Rachael Olliff Yang, Alicia Canales, Charlotte K. Stanley, Megan Webb, David Ackerly, Carl Boettiger, Cassie Buhler, Steven Monfort, Gary Bucciarelli, Rachel Meyer, Ariel Levi Simons, Jun Bando, Liz Chamberlin, Sam Veloz, Cole Dickison, Avery Hill, Rebecca Johnson, Ryan Hill, Amanda Kochanek, Dan Rademacher, Lisa Micheli, Kristeen Penrod, Giovanni Rapacciuolo, Nathaniel Roth, Dena Spatz, Daniel Gluesenkamp, and collaborators

Article Issue (PDF)

Howard, J., et al. (2026). “California’s 30 x 30 initiative at its midpoint: A biodiversity assessment snapshot of the state’s conservation areas.” Artemisia, 51(2), California Native Plant Society.

Biodiversity Conservation Conservation Policy

Regularized Step Directions in Nonlinear Conjugate Gradient Methods

Cassidy K. Buhler, Hande Y. Benson, David F. Shanno

Article Preprint Code

Buhler, C.K., Benson, H.Y. & Shanno, D.F. Regularized step directions in nonlinear conjugate gradient methods. Mathematical Programming Computation. 16, 629–664 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12532-024-00265-9

Nonlinear Optimization Operations Research

Decision-Making for Land Conservation: A Derivative-Free Optimization Framework with Nonlinear Inputs

Cassidy K. Buhler and Hande Y. Benson

Paper Preprint Code Poster

Buhler, C. K. & Benson, H. Y. (2024). Decision-Making for Land Conservation: A Derivative-Free Optimization Framework with Nonlinear Inputs. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 38(20), 21932-21939. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v38i20.30195

Biodiversity Conservation Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming AI Operations Research

Optimal Land Conservation Decisions for Multiple Species

Cassidy K. Buhler and Hande Y. Benson

Paper Preprint

Buhler, C. K., & Benson, H. Y. (2023). Optimal Land Conservation Decisions for Multiple Species. Proceedings of the 52nd Northeast Decision Science Institute Annual Conference (Vol. 52, pp. 808-816).

Biodiversity Conservation Integer Linear Programming Operations Research

Do Mechanisms Matter? Comparing Cancer Treatment Strategies Across Mathematical Models and Outcome Objectives

Cassidy K. Buhler, Rebecca S. Terry, Kathryn G. Link, Frederick R. Adler

Article

Cassidy K. Buhler, Rebecca S. Terry, Kathryn G. Link, Frederick R. Adler. Do mechanisms matter? Comparing cancer treatment strategies across mathematical models and outcome objectives[J]. Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 2021, 18(5): 6305-6327. doi: 10.3934/mbe.2021315

Mathematical Modeling Math Biology

Preprints/Misc

Efficient Solution of Portfolio Optimization Problems via Dimension Reduction and Sparsification

Cassidy K. Buhler and Hande Y. Benson

Preprint Code

Nonlinear Optimization Machine Learning Operations Research

Regularized Nonlinear Conjugate Gradient Methods for Machine Learning

Cassidy K. Buhler and Hande Y. Benson

Code

Nonlinear Optimization Machine Learning Operations Research