Conference Committee
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
- Dr. Mohammad Habib Rahman, Richard and Joanne Grigg Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Department Chair, Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Industry Chairs
- 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. 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
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 | |
| 4 | Digital Transformation, Industry 4.0 and IoT | Samvid Zare, Amazon Web Services (AWS) |
| 5 | Engineering Education and Curriculum Improvement | |
| 6 | Engineering Management and Project Management | Jaskaran Dhiman, a Staff NPI Engineer at Kulicke & Soffa, Fort Washington, Pennsylvania |
| 7 | Entrepreneurship and Innovation | |
| 8 | Facility Planning and Layout | |
| 9 | Human Factors, Ergonomics and Healthcare Systems | |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
Competition Chairs
| ID | Competition Name | Competition Chair |
| 1 | Undergraduate Student Paper Competition Sponsored by SIEMENS | |
| 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 | |
| 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 | |
| 11 | Lean Six Sigma Competition sponsored by Tooling Tech Group | |
| 12 | Simulation Competition | Dr. Jaejin Jang, Associate Professor, Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, UWM |
| 13 | Supply Chain and Logistics Competition sponsored by aThingz | |
| 14 | Poster Competition |
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
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
- Maram Al-Shammari, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Dr. A.O. Adewumi, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
- Jaskaran Dhiman, a Staff NPI Engineer at Kulicke & Soffa, Fort Washington, Pennsylvania
- Dr. Linda L. Zhang, IESEG School of Management, Lille-Paris, France
- Muhamad Failaka, Senior Process Engineer – Fertilizer & Petrochemical Industry, PT Pupuk Kalimantan Timur
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