Students
Prospective Students
I work with a large group of outstanding Ph.D. students on logistics and transportation research projects. If you are interested in joining the team, please send me an email.
Current Students
- Lacy Greening (2018 - )
- service network design with lead-times; dockless micromobility transport
- Dwight D. Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship (2020-2022)
- Ritesh Ojha (2019 - )
- trucking equipment planning and cross-dock operations
- 1st place, 2021 IISE Logistics and Supply Chain (LSC) Division Best Student Paper Award
- Dipayan Banerjee (2019 - )
- tactical design of last-mile delivery systems
- NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (2020-23), DDETF (2021)
- Ravit Pichayavet (2021 - )
- last-mile logistics
Ph.D. Alumni
I’ve had the pleasure of advising the outstanding students below, listed in order of year of graduation with current placement.
- Ricardo Gatica (Ph.D. 2002; Professor; Pontificia U. Catolica de Valparaiso)
- Brian Lewis (Ph.D. 2005; Executive VP; Vanguard Software)
- Rajeev Namboothiri (Ph.D. 2006; Senior Scientist; GE Global Research)
- Juan Carlos Morales (Ph.D. 2006; Director of Data Science; Otis Elevator)
- winner, 2007 INFORMS TSL Dissertation Prize
- Burak Karacik (Ph.D. 2006; Senior Manager; Amazon)
- Prashant Warier (Ph.D. 2007; CEO; Qure.ai)
- Steve Morris (Ph.D. 2007; Senior Software Engineer; Capital One)
- Olga Ortiz (Ph.D. 2008; Senior Manager; PepsiCo)
- Aykagan Ak (Ph.D. 2008; Director; Manhattan Associates)
- Emrah Uyar (Ph.D. 2008; JDA Software)
- Mike Hewitt (Ph.D. 2009; Professor and Ralph Marotta Endowed Chair in Free Enterprise; Loyola University - Chicago)
- Ashlea Bennett Milburn (Ph.D. 2009; Associate Professor; University of Arkansas)
- NSF CAREER Award, 2016
- Yang Zhang (Ph.D. 2010; Portfolio Manager; Axonic Capital)
- J. Antonio Carbajal (Ph.D. 2011; Head, Analytics; iHeartMedia)
- Kate Lindsey (Ph.D. 2012; Senior Manager Data Science and Advanced Analytics; Racetrac Petroleum)
- Yu Zhang (Ph.D. 2012; Senior Applied Scientist; Amazon)
- Xing Wang (Ph.D. 2013; Lecturer; Purdue University)
- Yanling Chang (Ph.D. 2015; Assistant Professor; Texas A&M University)
- Brian Kues (Ph.D. 2016; Software Engineer; Zuora)
- Mathias Klapp (Ph.D. 2016; Assistant Professor; Pontificia U. Catolica de Chile)
- Ilke Bakir (Ph.D. 2017; Associate Professor; University of Groningen, Netherlands)
- L. Damian Reyes Rodriguez (Ph.D. 2018; Research Scientist; Amazon)
- Satya Malladi (Ph.D. 2018; Senior Data Scientist; Kantar)
- Alborz Parcham-Kashani (Ph.D. 2018; Senior Technical Program Manager; Amazon Web Services)
- Yassine Ridouane (Ph.D. 2020; Data Scientist; Amazon)
- Adolfo Rocco Rocco (Ph.D. 2021; Data Scientist; Amazon)
- Ramon Auad (Ph.D. 2021; Research Scientist; Amazon)
- Alex Stroh (Ph.D. 2021; Lead Operations Research Scientist; Target)
- Reem Khir (Ph.D. 2021; Assistant Professor; Purdue University)
- Winner, 2022 IISE Facilities Design and Planning Track Best Paper Award, Supply Chain and Logistics Division; 2nd place, 2020 IISE Logistics and Supply Chain (LSC) Division Best Student Paper Award
- Daniel Ulch (Ph.D. 2022; Research Scientist; Amazon)