Graduate Students
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Alexander Jensen | Ph.D. expected 2028; Education technology and gaming |
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Partha Mishra | Ph.D. expected 2025; Innovations in urban mobility. Co-advised by Sunil Chopra, Sebastien Martin and Ioannis Stamatopoulos |
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Aysu Ozel | Ph.D. expected 2025; Advances in modeling for school district design |
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Eugene Wickett | Ph.D. 2024; Analysis of illicit pharmaceutical supply chains. Co-advised with Matt Plumlee |
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Mariana Escallon Barrios | Ph.D. 2023; Operations Research for volunteer management |
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Pol Boada Collado | Ph.D. 2021; Dynamic procurement with partial information. Co-advised with Sunil Chopra |
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Liwei Zeng | Ph.D. 2020; Covering tour problems with special network structures. Co-advised with Sunil Chopra |
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Mehmet Basdere | Ph.D. 2018; Methods and models to improve preparedness and response for mass gathering events. Co-advised with Sanjay Mehrotra |
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Kezban Yagci Sokat | Ph.D. 2017; Advancing dynamic relief response: Integration of new data streams and routing models. Co-advised with Irina Dolinskaya |
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Samantha Meyer | Ph.D. 2015; Resource dependence in education systems. Co-advised with Paul Leonardi and Jim Spillane |
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Tingting Jiang | Ph.D. 2015; Improving health by improving access: operations planning in improving community health outcomes. Co-advised with Seyed Iravani and Sarang Deo |
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Joseph Warfel | Ph.D. 2017; Design and operations of non-profit distribution systems. Co-advised with Seyed Iravani |
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Luis de la Torre | Ph.D. 2015; Dynamic, periodic vehicle routing for distribution of disaster relief aid. Co-advised with Irina Dolinskaya |
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Michael Huang | Ph.D. 2010; Incorporating equity, efficiency and efficacy in relief routing |
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Robert Lien | Ph.D. 2008; Design principles for flexible distribution systems. Co-advised with Seyed Iravani |
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Guangming Zhang | Ph.D. 2008; Intermodal drayage operations |
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Peter Francis | Ph.D. 2006; Service choice in periodic distribution operations: models and algorithms |
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Colleen Ross | MS 2013; Medical data analysis for road races. Co-advised with Sanjay Mehrotra. |
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Samuel Ellis | MS 2013; Scheduling models for community-based health care |
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Andrew Fox | MSiA 2014; Volunteer engagement in the age of analytics |
Post Docs
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Reut Noham | TAU-Northwestern fellow, Humanitarian logistics. Assistat Professor at Tel Aviv University |
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Marilene Cherkesly | Community based health care. Co-advised with Marie-Eve Rancourt. Associate Professor at l'Ecole des Sciences de la Gestion of l'Universite du Quebec a Montreal |
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Armagan Bayram | Community based health care. Co-advised with Seyed Iravani and Sarang Deo. Associate Professor at University of Michigan, Dearborn |
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Burcu Balcik | Relief routing models and solution approaches. Non-profit food distribution (with Seyed Iravani). Professor at Ozyegin University. |









