Bio

Shabbir Ahmed is a Coca-Cola Associate Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He received a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2000. He holds a MS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Illinois and a B.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from the Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology. Dr. Ahmed's research interests are in stochastic programming and computational optimization with applications in facility location, network design, capacity planning, and finance. Dr. Ahmed's honors include the National Science Foundation CAREER award, two IBM Faculty Awards, and the INFORMS Dantzig Dissertation award.