About

Alan Erera is Senior Associate Chair and Manhattan Associates/Dabbiere Chair and Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. He has served on the school faculty since 2001, when he joined as assistant professor. He is also the faculty director for the M.S. in Supply Chain Engineering program and Co-Executive Director of GT Panama Logistics Innovation and Research Center. Dr. Erera is currently an associate editor in the Supply Chain and Logistics Focused Issue of IISE Transactions. He is a past-president of the Transportation Science and Logistics Society (feed) of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), and has served formerly as associate editor for the flagship society journal Transportation Science.

Dr. Erera’s research focuses on transportation and logistics systems planning and control, with an emphasis on planning under uncertainty and real-time operational control. He leads the Distribution and Transportation Logistics thrust for Georgia Tech’s Supply Chain and Logistics Institute and leads the AI for Supply Chains industry thrust for the AI Institute for Advances in Optimization. His recent work has addressed last-mile logistics; dynamic vehicle routing systems for same-day distribution; service network design, linehaul equipment management, and driver scheduling for consolidation freight carriers; resilient logistics network design for food supply chains; robust container fleet management for global shipping companies; and robust and flexible vehicle routing system planning and control for distribution companies. He has written over 70 research papers in these subject areas, and has delivered over 100 technical presentations and invited lectures. His research program has been supported by federal agencies (DHS, USDOT, NSF) and major U.S. freight carriers, manufacturing, and retail firms. Recent industrial collaborators on research have included UPS, The Home Depot, Michelin, Steelcase, Saia, GrubHub, and SF Express.

He received his B.S. Eng. summa cum laude in Civil Engineering and Operations Research from Princeton University, and his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to graduate school, he worked in transportation logistics software development and consulting for ALK Technologies (now a subsidiary of Trimble), located in Princeton.