Conference Committee
Conference Chair
Dr. Satish Bukkapatnam
Rockwell International Professor and
Director, TEES Institute for Manufacturing Systems
Texas Engineering Experiment Station
College Station, Texas, USA
Conference Co-Chairs
Dr. Ahad Ali
Associate Professor
Director of Industrial Engineering Program
A. Leon Linton Department of Mechanical, Robotics and Industrial Engineering
Lawrence Technological University
Southfield, Michigan, USA
Dr. Gino Lim
Professor & Chair
R. Larry and Gerlene (Gerri) R. Snider Endowed Chair
Department of Industrial Engineering
University of Houston
Texas, USA
Dr. Hamid R. Parsaei
Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering
The Wm Michael Barnes ’64 Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering
Affiliated Professor, Multidisciplinary Engineering
Director, College of Engineering Accreditation and Assessment
Texas A&M University, College Station
Texas, USA
Industry Chair
Eric Ayanegui, CPMM, CRL
Director Operations Engineering
Cintas Corporation
Houston, Texas, USA
Program Chair
Professor Don Reimer
Director of Membership and Chapter Development
IEOM Society
Panel Chairs
Women in Industry and Academia (WIIA) Panel
- Dr. Johanna Trujillo Díaz, Titular-II Professor at Business Administration, Support of Vice-Rectory for Research, Fundación Internacional De La Rioja (UNIR),Bogotá, Colombia
Industry 4.0 Panel Chair
- Dr. Hayder Zghair, Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Director of Industrial Engineering Development, College of Science and Engineering, Southern Arkansas University, Magnolia, Arkansas, USA
Human Factors and Ergonomics – Maintenance and Reliability Panel Chair
- Eric Ayanegui, Cintas Corporation
Global Supply Chain Management and Logistics Panel Chair
- Dr. Shahram Taj, Chair and Professor, Department of Data Science & Business Analytics and Chair, Department of Computer Science, Florida Polytechnic University, Lakeland, Florida, USA
Data Analytics Panel Chair
- Dr. Ying Lin, Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering Department and Director, Smart Health & Intelligent Engineering Systems (SHINES) Lab, University of Houston, Houston, Texas
Using Assessment to Improve Student Learning and Curriculum – Panel Chair
- Dr. Abu Masud, Professor Emeritus, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Wichita State University, Kansas, USA
Lean Six Sigma Panel Chair
- Dr. Jamison Kovach, PMI Houston Endowed Professor in Project Management, University of Houston, Texas, USA
Diversity and Inclusion Panel sponsored by Ford Motor Company Panel Chair
- Shelia Harden, CEO, GSHA Quality Services, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Global Engineering Education Forum – Panel Chair
- Dr. Adedeji Badiru, Dean, Graduate School of Engineering and Management, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, USA
Conference Secretariat
- Dr. Taufiqul Islam, Operations Manager, IEOM Society International
Technical Committee (TC) / Review Editorial Board
- Dr. Adnan Hassan, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
- Dr. Cherrafi Anass, ENSAM- Meknes, Moulay Ismail University, Morocco
- Taher Azar Ahmad, Benha University, Egypt
- Alimohammad AHMADVAND, University of Eyvanekey, Iran
- Michel ALDANONDO, Ecole des Mine d’Albi, France
- Bandar A. Alkhayyal, Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia
- Ahmad Taher AZAR, Benha University, Egypt
- Armand BABOLI, INSA Lyon, France
- Trishit BANDYOPADHYAY, Xavier School of Management, India
- Andrés Felipe BARCO, Universidad de San Buenaventura-Cali, Colombia
- Samuel BASSETTO, Ecole Polytechnique, Canada
- Mahdi BASTAN, University of Eyvanekey, Iran
- Philipp BAUMANN, University of Bern, Switzerland
- Cedrick BELER, Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse – Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tarbes, France
- Eric BONJOUR, ENSGSI – University of Lorraine, France
- Robert BOUTE, KU Leuven, Belgium
- Xavier BRUSSET, SKEMA Business School, France
- Patricia Alcantara CARDOSO, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil
- Kah Hin CHAI, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Aurélie CHARLES, University of Lyon France, France
- Elyn Solano CHARRIS, Universidad de La Sabana, Columbia
- Anis CHELBI, University of Tunis, Tunisia
- Aidin Delgoshaei, Industrial Engineering Department, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran
- Christine DI MARTINELLY, IESEG School of Management, France
- Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes, The University of Derby, UK
- Hamed Shakouri GANJAVI , University of Tehran, Iran
- Laurent ENESTE , Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse – Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tarbes, France
- Ali GHARBI, ETS Montreal, Canada
- Bernard GRABOT , Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse – Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tarbes, France
- Elise GRUHIER , University of Bordeaux France, France
- Bhaskar GARDAS, Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute, India
- Vastag GYULA, Széchenyi István University, Hungary
- Marc Haddad, Lebanese American University, Lebanon
- Khaled HADJ HAMMOU, Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, France
- Ramzi HAMMAMI, ESC Rennes School of Business, France
- Alaa HASSAN, University of Lorraine, France
- Petri HELO, University of Vaasa, Finland
- Lazhar HOMRI, Arts et Métiers ParisTech, France
- Lars HVAM, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
- Emmanuel HYON, Sorbonne Université – LIP6, France
- Peter JACOBSEN, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
- Daouda KAMISSOKO, IMT Mines Albi, France
- Özge Karanfil, Koç Üniversitesi, Turkey
- Laoucine KERBACHE, HEC Paris, France
- Javad KHAMISABADI, Islamic Azad University, Iran
- Reza Ramazani KHORSHID-DOUST, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran
- Nathalie KLEMENT, Arts et Métiers ParisTech, France
- Anil Kumar, University of Derby, UK
- Arun KUMAR, RMIT University, Australia
- Vikas KUMAR, University pf the West England, UK
- Elmar KUTSCH, Cranfield University, UK
- Samir LAMOURI, ENSAM Arts et Métiers ParisTech, France
- Carman LEE, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
- Danping LIN, Shanghai Maritime University, China
- Chrity Yaqiong LV, Wuhan University of Technology, China
- Lahcen MIFDAL, Universiapolis Agadir, Morocco
- Mehrdad MOHAMMADI, IMT Atlantique, France
- Seyed Meysam MOUSAVI, Shahed University, Iran
- Simon Peter Nadeem, University of Derby, UK
- Balkrishna NARKHEDE, National Institute of Industrial Engineering, India
- Banu OZKESER, KOLUMAN Industry Automotive, Turkey
- Maurice PILLET, Université de Savoie Mont Blanc, France
- Rakesh RAUT, National Institute of Industrial Engineering, India
- Nidhal REGZ, University of Lorraine, France
- Luis Rocha-Lona, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico
- Turki SADOK, University of Lorraine, France
- Jérémie SCHUTZ, University of Lorraine, France
- Sara SHAFIEE, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
- Shakouri G. Hamed, University of Tehran, Iran
- Dellagi SOFIENE, University of Lorraine, France
- Reza TAVAKKOLI-MOGHADDAM, University of Tehran, Iran
- Ayeley TCHANGANI, Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse – Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tarbes, France
- Norbert TRAUTMANN, University of Bern, Switzerland
- Jiri TUPA, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic
- Yazgı TÜTÜNCÜ, Izmir University of Economics, Turkey
- Eric VILLENEUVE, Ecole Supérieure des Technologies Industrielles Avancées, France
- Junqiang WANG, Northwestern Polytechnic University, China
- Yue WANG, Hang Seng Management College, Hong Kong
- Yong WU, Griffith University, Australia
- Christoph WUNCK, Jade University of Applied Sciences, Germany
- Esma YAHIA, Arts et Métiers ParisTech, France
- Bingwen YAN, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa
- Marc ZOLGHADRI, Ecole des Ingénieurs en Mécanique de Paris, France
- Funlade Sunmola , University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK
- Ali MOSTAFAEIPOUR, Industrial Engineering Department, Yazd University, Iran
International Committee
- Eldon Caldwell, University of Costa Rica
- Mohammad Abdullah Shaikh, Deakin University, Australia
- Bhaskar Bhandarkar, Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering (IIIE), Mumbai, India
- Mohd Khairol Anuar bin Mohd Ariffin,Co-ordinator Master of Manufacturing System Engineering,Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University Putra Malaysia (UPM), Selangor, Malaysia
- Shekar Babu, AMRITA School of Business, AMRITA University, Bangalore, India
- Khurshid Khan, Vice Chancelor, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan (AWKUM), Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
- Mahdi Bashiri, Professor of Industrial Engineering, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran
- MELLAK Abderrahmane, Boumerdes University – Algeria
- Sumit Kumar Gupta, Dean of Science, Parishkar college of global Excellence Jaipur, India
- Sharif, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur (India)