Conference Committee
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Conference Chairs
- Dr. Wilkistar Otieno, Associate Professor and Chair, Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
- Dr. Satya Aditya Akundi, Assistant Professor, Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, UWM
- Dr. Luis Rabelo, Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering & Management Systems, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
- Dr. Ahad Ali, Associate Professor, Director of Doctor of Engineering in Advanced Manufacturing and Director of Industrial Engineering Program, Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, Michigan, USA and CEO of IEOM Society
Program Chairs
- Professor Don Reimer, Chief Operating Officer, IEOM Society International
- M. Affan Badar, PhD, CPEM, IEOM Fellow, Professor, Former Department Chair, and current director of the consortium-based PhD in Technology Management program in Bailey College of Engineering & Technology at Indiana State University (ISU), USA
Industry Chair
- Dr. E Shirl Donaldson, College of Innovation and Technology, University of Michigan Flint
Technical Chairs
- Girish Gopalakrishnan, Senior Manager Continuous Improvement – North America, CNH, Milwaukee, USA
- Dr. Senthilkumar Thiyagarajan, Sr Analyst Supply Chain, Inventory Management, Medline Industries, LP, Chicago
Organizing Committee
- Dr. E Shirl Donaldson, College of Innovation and Technology, University of Michigan Flint
- Dr. Rina Ghose, Professor, Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, UWM
- Dr. Jaejin Jang, Associate Professor, Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, UWM
- Dr. Junjie Niu, Richard and Joanne Grigg Professorship and Professor, Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, UWM
- Dr. Hamid Seifoddini, Associate Professor, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, UWM
- Dr. Bakhtear Talukdar, Associate Professor of Finance, Department of Finance and Business Law, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, WI, USA
Sponsors and Exhibitors Chair
Professor Don Reimer, Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, Michigan, USA
Conference Secretariat
- Dr. Mizanur Rahman, Operations Manager, IEOM Society International
Supply Chain Management Committee
- Dr. Layth Alwan, Professor of Supply Chain/Operations Management & Business Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Dr. Shraddha Gawankar, Assistant Professor for Practice at Economics and Decision Sciences, Beacom School of Business, University of South Dakota
- Dr. Anna Land, Associate Professor, Department of Information Technology and Supply Chain Management at Boise State University, Idaho
- Dr. Shraddha Gawankar, Assistant Professor for Practice at Economics and Decision Sciences, Beacom School of Business, University of South Dakota
- Dr. Sam Khoury, Associate Professor of CIS and SCM, Spring Hill College, Mobile, Alabama
- Dr. Nima Molavi, Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management, California State University-San Bernardino, USA
Track Chairs
| ID | Track Name | Track Chair |
| 1 | Artificial Intelligence and Data Science | Sudhakar Tiwari, Identity and Access Management Consultant, Zurich Insurance, Schaumburg, Illinois, United States |
| 2 | Automation, Robotics and Autonomous Systems | Kevin Patel, Project Quality Leader, Futaba North America, Chicago, IL |
| 3 | Business Management and Operations Management | Saad Ahmed, Supplier Quality Management-North America Lead, bp, Chicago, Illinois |
| 4 | Digital Transformation, Industry 4.0 and IoT | Samvid Zare, Amazon Web Services (AWS) |
| 5 | Engineering Education and Curriculum Improvement | Dr. Pawan Bhandari, Department of Automotive and Manufacturing Engineering Technology, Minnesota State University, Mankato, USA |
| 6 | Engineering Management and Project Management | Jaskaran Dhiman, a Staff NPI Engineer at Kulicke & Soffa, Fort Washington, Pennsylvania |
| 7 | Entrepreneurship and Innovation | Dr. Lee Wells, Associate Professor, Industrial and Entrepreneurial Engineering & Engineering Management, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo MI, USA |
| 8 | Facility Planning and Layout | Dr. Omar Abbaas, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA |
| 9 | Human Factors, Ergonomics and Healthcare Systems | Dr. Catherine Maware, Assistant Professor, Fujio Cho Engineering Technology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA |
| 10 | Lean Six Sigma and Operations Excellence | Kathiresan Jayabalan, Ph.D. Research Scholar, Mastercard Technologies, USA |
| 11 | Manufacturing, Assembly and Design | Dr. Hayder Zghair, Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering, Department of Engineering and Physics, and Director of Industrial Engineering Development, College of Science and Engineering at Southern Arkansas University |
| 12 | Quality, Reliability and Maintenance | Dr. Mohammad Shamsuzzaman, Professor of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management at the University of Sharjah in the UAE |
| 13 | Simulation, Optimization and Productivity Improvement | Dr. Marwen Elkamel, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Industrial Engineering & Management Systems, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida |
| 14 | Supply Chain and Logistics | Senthilkumar Thiyagarajan, Sr Analyst Supply Chain, Inventory Management, Medline Industries, LP, Chicago, ILPrabhat Rao Pinnaka, Lowe’s |
| 15 | Sustainability, Green Systems and Energy | Dr. Marwen Elkamel, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Industrial Engineering & Management Systems, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida |
| 16 | Case Studies and Best Practices | Dr. Sarah Ali, Clinical Assistant Professor, Engineering, Math and Honors Departments, Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
Competition Chairs
| ID | Competition Name | Competition Chair |
| 1 | Undergraduate Student Paper Competition Sponsored by SIEMENS | Dr. Mohammad Shamsuzzaman, Professor of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management at the University of Sharjah in the UAE |
| 2 | Undergraduate Research Competition sponsored by Daikin Applied | Dr. Matthew Petering, Associate Professor, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, UWM |
| 3 | Graduate Student Paper Competition Sponsored by EATON Corporation | Dr. Satya Aditya Akundi, Assistant Professor, Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, UWM |
| 4 | Doctoral Dissertation Competition sponsored by Airbus | Dr. Hamid Seifoddini, Associate Professor, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, UWM |
| 5 | Master’s Thesis Competition | Dr. Rina Ghose, Professor, Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, UWM |
| 6 | Senior Design Project Competition | Dr. Junjie Niu, Richard and Joanne Grigg Professorship and Professor, Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, UWM |
| 7 | High School STEM Competition | Prof. Don Reimer, LTU |
| 8 | AI-ML Competition | Dr. Marwen Elkamel, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Industrial Engineering & Management Systems, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida |
| 9 | Global Design Competition sponsored by Amatrol Inc. | Md AI Imran, Siemens Industry Inc., Texas, USA |
| 10 | Human Factors and Ergonomics Competition | Dr. Qutubuddin S.M. is a Professor in Industrial and Production Engineering at PDA College of Engineering, Kalaburagi, Karnataka, India |
| 11 | Lean Six Sigma Competition sponsored by Tooling Tech Group | Dr. Joseph Ogundu, Emerald Consulting Company, Southfield, Michigan |
| 12 | Simulation Competition | Dr. Jaejin Jang, Associate Professor, Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, UWM |
| 13 | Supply Chain and Logistics Competition sponsored by aThingz | Prof. Mohammed Anwar Rahman, Director, Supply chain and Logistics Management, MSc, Professor of School of Engineering science and Technology, Central Connecticut State University, USA |
| 14 | Poster Competition | Dr. Muhammad Sohail Ahmed, Professor of Engineering Management, School of Engineering, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA |
North American Academic Committee (NAAC)
- Dr. Shahram Taj, Chair and Professor, Department of Data Science & Business Analytics, Florida Polytechnic University, USA
- Dr. M. Affan Badar, CPEM, Professor, Applied Engineering and Technology Management Department, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana, USA
- Dr. Adedeji Badiru, Dean, Graduate School of Engineering and Management, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, USA
- Dr. Luz María Valdez de la Rosa, Professor of Engineering Department, University of Monterrey, México
- Dr. Ivan Garibay, Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering & Management Systems, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
- Dr. Abu Masud, Professor Emeritus, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department, Wichita State University, Kansas, USA
- Dr. Abdur Rahim, University of New Brunswick, Canada
- Dr. Leslie Monplaisir, Professor and Chair, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, USA
- Dr. Daw Alwerfalli, Professor and Director of Engineering Management Program, A. Leon Linton Department of Mechanical, Robotics and Industrial Engineering, Lawrence Technological University, Southfoeld, Michigan, USA
- Professor Abdul Mannan, Adjunct Professor, University of the District of Columbia, Washington DC, USA
- Dr. Mukti M. Rana, Delaware State University, Dover, Delaware, USA
- Dr. Mohamed Awwad, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
- Dr. Reza Akhavian, California State University, East Bay
- Dr. Sampson Gholston, University of Alabama in Huntsville
- Dr. Jacqueline Chestnut, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC
- Dr. Mohammed Rahman, Central Connecticut State University, USA
- Dr. Hayder Zghair, Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering in the Department of Engineering and Physics, and the Director of Industrial Engineering Development in the College of Science and Engineering at Southern Arkansas University, USA
- Dr. Andy Pandian, Saginaw Valley State University, Michigan, USA
- Dr. Jay Lee, University of Maryland, USA
- Dr. Devdas Shetty, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC, USA
- Dr. Alireza Ghasemi, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
- Dr. Walid Abdul Kader, University of Windsor, Canada
Industry Advisory Committee
- Aaron Rubel, Head of Maintenance Programs Development and Intellectual Property Focal Point, Airbus Mobile Engineering Center, Airbus Americas, Inc., Mobile, Alabama, USA
- Anwar Hossain, Sr. Director at Applied Development Center (ADC), Daikin Applied America, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Eric Ayanegui, Director Operations Engineering, Cintas Corporation, Houston, Texas, USA
- Foad Hosseinkhanli, Director of Quality Assurance, Performance and Business Improvement, Amor Health Services, Inc., Brownsville, Texas, USA
- Girish Gopalakrishnan, Senior Manager Continuous Improvement – North America, CNH, Milwaukee, USA
- Joseph Ogundu, Emeralds Consulting Inc., Southfield, Michigan, USA
- Kamran Mohammed, Stellantis, Auburn Hills, Michigan, USA
- Mohammad Islam, Associate Director, Optum – United Healthcare Inc., New Jersey, USA
- Neil Murray, Senior Technical Specialist at ZF Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA
- Saiful Siddique, Stellantis, Auburn Hills, Michigan, USA
- Senthilkumar Thiyagarajan, Sr Analyst Supply Chain, Inventory Management, Medline Industries, LP, Chicago
- Steve Marshall is the Senior CFD Expert at Valeo Thermal Systems in Auburn Hills, Michigan USA
- Steve Sibrel, Senior Quality Manager at Harman International, Novi, MI, USA
- Vivekkrishna Ramachandran, Stellantis, Auburn Hills, Michigan, USA
- Prathyusha M., Project Manager at HOLT CAT, Dallas, Texas, United States
International Advisory Committee
- Dr. Rushan Ziatdinov, Department of Industrial & Management Engineering, Keimyung University, Daegu, South Korea
- Dr. Hamidi Bashir, Chairperson, University of Sharjah, UAE
- Prof. Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes, University of Derby, UK
- Prof. Vikas Kumar, University of Plymouth, UK
- Dr. Olufemi Adetunji, University of Pretoria, South Africa
- Dr. Umar AL-Turki, KAU, Saudi Arabia
- Dr. Abdul Talib Bon, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia
- Dr. Moncer Abdelhamid Hariga, American University of Sharjah, UAE
- Dr. Mohammad D. Al-Tahat, The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan
- Dr. Arun Kumar, RMIT University, Australia
- Dr. Charles Mbohwa, University of South Africa
- Dr. Rosemary Seva, De La Salle University – Manila, Philippines
- Dr. Alfredo Soeiro, University of Porto, Portugal
- Dr. Robert de Souza, The Logistics Institute – Asia Pacific, Singapore
- Dr. Li Zheng, Tsinghua University, China
- Dr. Henk Zijm, University of Twente, Netherlands
- Dr. Qutubuddin SM, PDA College of Engineering, India
- Dr. Manzoor Hussain, JNTUH Hyderabad, India
- Dr. D. K. Banwet, IIT-Delhi, India
- Dr. Abdelaziz Berrado, The Ecole Mohammadia d’Ingénieurs, Rabat, Morocco
Technical Committee
| First Name | Last Name | Affiliation |
| Muhamad | Failaka | Fertilizer & Petrochemical Industry, PT Pupuk Kalimantan Timur |
| Linda | Zhan | IESEG School of Management, Lille-Paris, France |
| Jaskaran | Dhiman | Kulicke & Soffa, Fort Washington, Pennsylvania |
| A.O. | Adewumi | University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa |
| Maram | Al-Shammari | King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
| Jaskaran Singh | Dhiman | Kulicke and Soffa |
| Md Al | Imran | Siemens Industry Inc |
| Atul | Khanna | AWS, Support Manager at AWS in Dallas, USA |
| Prabhat Rao | Pinnaka | Lowe’s |
| SM | SHAKIL | Florida Polytechnic University |
| Shraddha | Gawankar | Beacom School of Business, University of South Dakota |
| Raja | Manambedu Vijayakumar | Westcliff University |
| Nahida | Shaikh | GVSN |
| Naman | Subedi | Lamar University |
| Nawaf | Alamri | King Abdulaziz University |
| Dr. Hadis | Anahideh | University of Illinois Chicago, USA |
| Giuma | Fellah | University of Tripoli |
| Oumayma | Hamlaoui | American University of the Middle East |
| Khandakar Akhter | Hossain | Bangladesh Maritime University |
| Md Akram | Hossain | Johnson & Johnson |
| Md Zahid | Hossain | Islamic University of Technology |
| Vignesh | Jairaj | Asahi Kasei Plastics |
| Dichondra | Johnson | University of Michigan-Flint |
| Mukondeleli Grace | Kanakana-Katumba | Vaal University of Technology |
| Prosper | Konlan | Cranfield University |
| Abhishek | Kumar | University of the Cumberlands, Williamsburg, KY |
| Anna | Land | Boise State University |
| Narges | Panah Khoda | MOM |
| Maheshkumar | Patil | Generac Power Systems |
| Narasimha Rao | R | National Institute of Technology Warangal |
| Imtiajur | Rahman | Texas State University |
| Sofia | Roberto | Colégio Estadual Marli Queiroz de Azevedo |
| Saurabh | Singh | Wichita State University |
| Joana | Souza | UFRGS |
| Omar | Abueed | The State University of New York at Binghamton |
| Abubakar | Ado | Northwest University kano |
| Majed | Aljamrah | Binghamton University |
| Sainyam | Arora | Johnson Matthey |
| Goksu | Avdan | Missouri Western State University |
| Alireza | Babakhan | Alborz Research and Technology Fund |
| Damilola | Badejo | Texas A&M University Kingsville |
| Arvin | Bahreini | University of Oregon |
| Robin | Barua | Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET) |
| Ashish | Chandra | Illinois State University |
| Teodoro | Córdova Fraga | Universidad de Guanato campus León |
| Srivanth | Dasu | Dublin High School |
| Shriyadita | De | Montgomery Blair High School |
| Sanjiv | Dhanjal | Oxbow |
| Xhanti | Dyonase | Durban University of Technology |
| Moh’d Ragheb | El-Sharo | Western Washington University |
| Maria | Fariña | Northwestern State University |
| Oluwafunmise | Fifo | Texas A&M University-Kingsville |
| Azucena Minerva | García-León | Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León |
| Girish Kumar | Gopalakrishnan | CNH (Case New Holland) |
| Yilin | Guo | College Park High School |
| Sahand | Hajifar | Park University |
| Brett | Hancock | Indiana State University |
| Mahmudul | Hasan Rohan | JUST |
| Md Monirul | Islam | Texas A&M University – Kingsville |
| Luisa Fernanda | Jimenez | Universidad de Antioquia |
| Ahsanul Kabir | Luhan | NITER |
| Vedant | Mahadik | Vivekanand College of Human Exllence, Koregaon |
| María de los Angeles | Martínez-Mercado | Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León |
| Neil | Murray | Lawrence Technological University |
| Ahmed | Qasem | University of Aalabama at Birmingham |
| Farjin | Rahman | Shahjalal University of Science and Technology |
| MD | Rana | Lamar University |
| Lone | Seboni | University of Botswana |
| Mohsen | Selseleh | George brown college |
| Neil | Sharma | Independant |
| Iqtiar | Siddique | The University of Texas at El Paso |
| Sandeep | Singhal | National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra |
| Mauricio | Torres-Torres | Universidad Autónioma De Nuevo León |
| Yao-Te | Tsai | National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology |
| José Martin | Díaz Pulido | Universidad Abierta y a distancia – UNAD Bogotá, Colombia |
| Diego Andre | Guevara Rabanal | University of Central Florida |
| Lokesh Rao | Gujja | Purdue University Northwest |
| Md Shahriar | Hossain | Northwestern State University |
| Thomas | Jones | UCF |
| Motsi Ephrey | Matlakala | University of Johannesburg |
| Kevin | Patel | Futaba North America Engineering & Marketing Corp. |
| Elva Patricia | Puente Aguilar | Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León |
| Alexandre | Sampaio | University of Aveiro |
Student Support Committee / Student Ambassadors
- Dinesh Thalla, MSIE Student, Lawrence Technological University, Michigan, USA
- Aditya Panchal, MSIE Student, Lawrence Technological University, Michigan, USA
- Neel Nayanbhai Panchal, MSIE Student, Lawrence Technological University, Michigan, USA