Bio

Martin Savelsbergh is an optimization and logistics specialist with over 20 years of experience in mathematical modeling, operations research, optimization methods, algorithm design, performance analysis, logistics, supply chain management, and transportation systems. He has published over 70 research papers in many of the top optimization and logistics journals. Martin has a track record of creating innovative techniques for solving large-scale optimization problems in a variety of areas, ranging from supply chain master planning and execution, to world-wide tank container management, to vehicle routing and scheduling problems.

Martin Savelsbergh is professor in ISyE and research director of The Logistics Institute. He is actively involved in on-going industrially sponsored research projects at The Logistics Institute, including the development of congestion management technology for Yellow Roadway, a large LTL carrier, the development of order acceptance and flight scheduling technology for DayJet, a per-seat on-demand air transportation service provider, the development of cost-to-serve analysis technology for Praxair, a large industrial gas distributor, and the development of collaborative transportation procurement technology for RubberNetwork, a conglomerate of tire companies.

Other research projects that Martin is involved in include the analysis of the value of allowing deliveries to be split during distribution, the development of technology for inventory routing problems, the analysis of dispatch strategies for environments where requests for service arrive dynamically over time and where contracts are in place that guarantee service within a certain period, the cost-effective delivery of blood to regional hospitals operating with vendor managed inventory policies, the development and analysis of technology for effectively using meet-and-turn points in regional LTL networks, the development of robust empty container management models, and carrier bid optimization in the presence of competition.

Martin Savelsbergh serves as Area Editor for Operations Research Letters, Associate Editor for Mathematics of Operations Research, Networks, and Naval Logistics Research, and he is a member of the editorial board of Computers & Operations Research and Constraints. Martin has given presentations and short courses on optimization and logistics in more than a dozen countries around the world.