McCormick | Northwestern Engineering _

Karen Smilowitz

James N. and Margie M. Krebs Professor in Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences

Graduate Students

Graduate Students
GFG Logo Alexander Jensen Ph.D. expected 2028; Education technology and gaming
GFG Logo Partha Mishra Ph.D. expected 2025; Innovations in urban mobility. Co-advised by Sunil Chopra, Sebastien Martin and Ioannis Stamatopoulos
GFG Logo Aysu Ozel Ph.D. expected 2025; Advances in modeling for school district design
GFG Logo Eugene Wickett Ph.D. 2024; Analysis of illicit pharmaceutical supply chains. Co-advised with Matt Plumlee
GFG Logo Mariana Escallon Barrios Ph.D. 2023; Operations Research for volunteer management
GFG Logo Pol Boada Collado Ph.D. 2021; Dynamic procurement with partial information. Co-advised with Sunil Chopra
GFG Logo Liwei Zeng Ph.D. 2020; Covering tour problems with special network structures. Co-advised with Sunil Chopra
GFG Logo Mehmet Basdere Ph.D. 2018; Methods and models to improve preparedness and response for mass gathering events. Co-advised with Sanjay Mehrotra
GFG Logo Kezban Yagci Sokat Ph.D. 2017; Advancing dynamic relief response: Integration of new data streams and routing models. Co-advised with Irina Dolinskaya
GFG Logo Samantha Meyer Ph.D. 2015; Resource dependence in education systems. Co-advised with Paul Leonardi and Jim Spillane
GFG Logo 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
GFG Logo Joseph Warfel Ph.D. 2017; Design and operations of non-profit distribution systems. Co-advised with Seyed Iravani
GFG Logo Luis de la Torre Ph.D. 2015; Dynamic, periodic vehicle routing for distribution of disaster relief aid. Co-advised with Irina Dolinskaya
GFG Logo Michael Huang Ph.D. 2010; Incorporating equity, efficiency and efficacy in relief routing
GFG Logo Robert Lien Ph.D. 2008; Design principles for flexible distribution systems. Co-advised with Seyed Iravani
GFG Logo Guangming Zhang Ph.D. 2008; Intermodal drayage operations
GFG Logo Peter Francis Ph.D. 2006; Service choice in periodic distribution operations: models and algorithms
GFG Logo Colleen Ross MS 2013; Medical data analysis for road races. Co-advised with Sanjay Mehrotra.

GFG Logo Samuel Ellis MS 2013; Scheduling models for community-based health care
GFG Logo Andrew Fox MSiA 2014; Volunteer engagement in the age of analytics

Post Docs

Post Docs
GFG Logo Reut Noham TAU-Northwestern fellow, Humanitarian logistics. Assistat Professor at Tel Aviv University
GFG Logo 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
GFG Logo Armagan Bayram Community based health care. Co-advised with Seyed Iravani and Sarang Deo. Associate Professor at University of Michigan, Dearborn
GFG Logo Burcu Balcik Relief routing models and solution approaches. Non-profit food distribution (with Seyed Iravani). Professor at Ozyegin University.