Conference Committee
Conference Chairs
- Dr. Shahram Taj, Chair and Professor, Department of Data Science & Business Analytics, Florida Polytechnic University, USA
- Dr. Ahmad Elshennawy, Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA
- Dr. Ahad Ali, Associate Professor and Director of Industrial Engineering Program, Lawrence Technological University, Michigan, USA
Associate Conference Chairs
- Dr. Reinaldo Sanchez-Arias, Assistant Chair Department of Data Science and Business Analytics, Assistant Professor of Data Science, Florida Polytechnic University, Florida, USA
- Dr. Doga Demirel, Assistant Professor and Assistant Chair of the Computer Science Department at Florida Polytechnic University, Florida, USA
Technical Chair
- Dr. M. Affan Badar, CPEM, Professor, Applied Engineering and Technology Management Department, Indiana State University, , Terre Haute, Indiana, USA
Program Chairs
- Dr. Hayder Zghair, Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering, Southern Arkansas University, USA – Conference Coordinator
- Professor Don Reimer, Adjunct Professor, LTU, MI, USA
Industry Chair
- Mr. Aaron Rubel, Head of Maintenance Programs Development and Intellectual Property Focal Point, Airbus Mobile Engineering Center, Airbus Americas, Inc., Mobile, Alabama, USA
Women in Industry and Academia Chairs
- Dr. Wilkistar Otieno, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Co-Director (Co-PI), UWM Industrial Assessment Center and Director, NSF/S-STEM: Preparing Engineers Computer Scientists, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, USA
Industry Solutions Chair
- Foad Hosseinkhanli, Director of Quality Assurance, Performance and Business Improvement, Amor Health Services, Inc., Brownsville, Texas, USA
Global Engineering Education Chairs
- Dr. Abu Masud, Wichita State University and Dr. Hamid Parsaei, Texas A&M University, College Station
8th NA Conference Chair (2023 Houston)
- Dr. Satish Bukkapatnam, Rockwell International Professor and Director, TEES Institute for Manufacturing Systems, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA
Conference Secretariat
- Dr. Taufiqul Islam, Operations Manager, IEOM Society International
Track Chairs
Artificial Intelligence
- Dr. Doga Demirel, FL Poly
Automotive Manufacturing Systems
- Dr S A Mohan Krishna, Vidyavardhaka College of Engineering
Business Management
- Dr. Luis Rocha-Lona, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City, México
- Dr. Abdulaziz Ahmed, Program Director, Univ. of Minnesota Crookston, USA
CAD, Applications and Computing
- Dr. Rushan Ziatdinov, Keimyung Univ., South Korea
Construction Management
- Dr. Rakesh Ramnath, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, West Indies
Cyber Security
- Dr. Jing Hou, FL Poly
Data Analytics / Business Analytics
- Dr. Sanchez-Arias, FL Poly
Decision Sciences
- Ing. Johanna Trujillo Díaz, Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería Julio Garavito, Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
Design and Analysis
- Dr. Ahsanul Karim, Ford Motor Company
Defense and Aviation
- Dr. Farshid Azadian, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida
Energy
- Dr. Mohammad Ashraf Hossain Sadi, University of Central Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri
Engineering Education
- Dr. Daniel M. Ferguson, Engineering Education, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Engineering Management
- Dr. Luz María Valdez de la Rosa, Universidad de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
Environmental Systems Engineering
- Dr. Ali ElKamel, University of Waterloo, Canada
Financial Engineering
- Cesar Acosta, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
Healthcare Operations and Services
- Dr. Joonyup Eun, Korea University, South Korea
- Vahab Vahdat, Northeastern University, USA
Human Factors and Ergonomics
- Jafri Bin Mohd Rohani FKM, UTM
Industrial Services
- Dr. Joseph Ogundu, Emerald Global Consulting, Southfield, Michigan
Information Systems and Management
- Dr. Farouq Alhourani, University of Tampa, Florida
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Tarun Mohan Lal, Vice President, Analytics and Solutions/CAOVice President, Analytics and Solutions/CAO, Atrium Health Navicent, Georgia
Inventory Management
- Niamat Hossain, PhD, Assistant Professor, Engineering Management Department, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Arkansas State University
Lean Six Sigma
- Dr. Saso Krstovski, Ford Motor Company, Michigan, USA
Logistics
- Niamat Hossain, PhD, Assistant Professor, Engineering Management Department, College of Engineering and Computer Science, Arkansas State University
Manufacturing
- Dr. AMM Nazmul Ahsan, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering & Technology, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC, USA
Mathematical Modeling/Heuristics
- Dr. Aidin Delgoshaei, University of Kharazmi, Iran
Modeling and Simulation
- Dr. Mohammad Dehghani, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts
- Dr. Ali ElKamel, University of Waterloo, Canada
Operations Management
- Dr. Jim Mennie, FL Poly
Operations Research
- Dr. Qipeng Phil Zheng, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA
- Dr. Azadeh Maroufmashat, University of Waterloo, Canada
Optimization
- Dr. Mahdi Fathi, Assistant Professor, Department of Information Technology & Decision Sciences, G. Brint Ryan College of Business, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, USA
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
- Md Tanbiruj Jaman, AGCO Corp., Hesston, Kansas
Production Planning and Management
- Santosh Gudagunti, Quality Engineer at Peterson Spring, Southfield, Michigan
Project Management
- Dr. Abdussalam Shibani, Coventry University
Quality and Reliability
- Dr. Seyed A. Niknam, Western New England University, Springfield, Massachusetts
Supply Chain Management
- Dr Aicha Aguezzoul, University of Lorraine, France
Supply Chain Sustainability / Green Supply Chain
- Dr Aicha Aguezzoul, University of Lorraine, France
Supply Chain Risks and Uncertainty
- Dr. Mohammad Marufuzzaman, Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Mississippi State University, USA
Sustainability
- Dennis Tribby, PhD, UCF
- Dr. Debadyuti Das, Professor at Faculty of Management Studies, Delhi, India
Sustainable Manufacturing
- Dr. Muztoba A. Khan, Assistant Professor, Operations & Supply Chain Management, Carroll University, Waukesha, Wisconsin, USA
Statistical Process Monitoring
- Dr. Mojtaba Pasha, University of Calgary, Canada
Statistics
- Dr. Mojtaba Pasha, University of Calgary, Canada
Systems Dynamics
- Dr. Mahdi Bastan, University of Eyvanekey, Iran
Systems Engineering
- Dr. Wilkistar Otieno, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
Technology Management
- Dr. Masoud Rahiminezhad Galankashi, UTM, Malaysia
Transportation and Traffic
- Dr. Abbas Mahmoudabadi, Mehrastan University, Gilan, Iran
Website Coordinators
- Christian Forrest, Manager of Web Services, Lawrence Technological University, Michigan, USA
- Suvro Sudip, IEOM Webmaster, Michigan
North American Academic Committee (NAAC)
- Professor Abdul Mannan, Adjunct Professor, University of the District of Colombia, Washington DC, USA
- Dr. Masud Rana, Delaware State University, USA
- Dr. M. El-Shark, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL
- Dr. Mohamed Awwad, University of Buffalo, New York
- Dr. Reza Akhavian, California State University, East Bay
- Dr. Sampson Gholston, University of Alabama in Huntsville
- Dr. Jacqueline Chestnut, Adjunct Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, College of Engineering, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC
Honorary Committee
- Pr. Moulay Larbi Abidi, École Mohammadia d’ingénieurs, Rabat, Morocco
- Dr. Hamidi Bashir, Chairperson, University of Sharjah, UAE
- Dr. Mohamed Essaaidi, Mohamed V University in Rabat, Morocco
- Dr. Devashis Mitra, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada
- Prof. Dr. Mohd Razali Muhamad, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic and Internationalization), Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka
- Professor Dr. Norazman Mohamad Nor, Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research and Innovation), National Defence University of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur
- Dr. Hamid R. Parsaei, Texas A&M University at College Station and Qatar
- Dr. Ismail Tag, SVP & Provost, The Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Dr. Noordin Mohd. Yusof, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Advisory Committee
- Pr. Moulay Larbi Abidi, École Mohammadia d’ingénieurs, Rabat, Morocco
- Dr. Muhammad Abid, Ghulam Ishaq Khan Ins. of Eng. Sci. & Tech., Pakistan
- Dr. Olufemi Adetunji, University of Pretoria, South Africa
- Dr. Umar AL-Turki, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
- Dr. Ronald G. Askin, Arizona State University, USA
- Dr. Mohammed Ben-Daya, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
- Dr. Abdul Talib Bon, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia
- Dr. Raj Das, University of Auckland, New Zealand
- Dr. Kudret Demirli, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Dr. Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes, University of Derby, UK
- Dr. Alireza Ghasemi, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
- 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. Jay Lee, University of Cincinnati, USA
- Masaru Tezuka, Hitachi Solutions East Japan, Ltd., Sendai, Japan
- Dr. Abu Masud, Wichita State University, Kansas, USA
- Dr. Charles Mbohwa, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
- Dr. Samar Mukhopadhyay, GSB-Sung Kyun Kwan University, Seoul, Korea
- Dr. Nor Hasni Osman, Universiti Utara Malaysia
- Dr. Leonard Perry, University of San Diego, USA
- Dr. Ho Thanh Phong, International University – VNUHCM, Vietnam
- Dr. Abdur Rahim, University of New Brunswick, Canada
- Dr. Mehmet Savsar, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait
- Dr. Rapinder Sawhney, University of Tennessee – Knoxville, USA
- Dr. Rosemary Seva, De La Salle University – Manila, Philippines
- Dr. Devdas Shetty, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC, USA
- Dr. Hamid Seifoddini, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
- Dr. Alfredo Soeiro, University of Porto, Portugal
- Dr. Robert de Souza, The Logistics Institute – Asia Pacific, Singapore
- Dr. Masine Md. Tap, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
- Dr. Zulkifli Mohamed Udin, Universiti Utara Malaysia
- Dr. Alok Verma, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
- Dr. Hari Agung Yuniarto, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
- Dr. Li Zheng, Tsinghua University, China
- Dr. Henk Zijm, University of Twente, Netherlands
- Dr. Ravi Inder S Jassar, Birla Institute of Technology and Sci., Pilani, India
Program Committee
- Dr. Rushan Ziatdinov, Department of Industrial & Management Engineering, Keimyung University, Daegu, South Korea
- Dr. Lina Aboueljinane, Industrial Engineering Program, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Rabat (ENSMR), Morocco
- Dr. Bouloiz Hafida, Industrial Engineering Department, National School of Applied Sciences (ENSA), Ibn Zohr University, Agadir, Morocco
- Dr. Jaouad Boukachour, Université Le Havre, France
Global Engineering Education Committee
- Dr. Abu Masud, Boeing Global Engineering Professor, Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department, Wichita State University, Kansas, USA
- Dr. Hamid Parsaei, Texas A&M University (College Station) and Qatar
- Dr. Mukondeleli Grace Kanakana, University of South Africa
- Dr. Syed Ahmad Helmi Al Haddad, Program Coordinator for MSc in Industrial Engineering and Associate Fellow, Center for Engineering Education (CEE), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia
- Dr. Mehmet Savsar, Professor, Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait
- Dr. Vitor M. Caldana, Professor, Depto. de Eletroeletrônica, IFSP – Instituto Federal de São Paulo – Campus Sorocaba, SP, Brazil
- Dr. Jafri Mohd Rohani, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
- Dr. Chan Chee-Ming, Associate Professor and Deputy Dean (Academic and Research), Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia
- Dr. Ilham Kissani, Faulty of Engineering & Management Science, Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco
- Dr. Ho Hwi Chie, Bina Nusantara University (Binus), Indonesia
- Dr. Rosemary Seva, De La Salle University – Manila, Philippines
- Dr. Jihong Yan, Professor in Industrial Engineering and Deputy Dean of School of Mechatronics Engineering, Head of intelligent Manufacturing Scientific Research Team, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
Industry Solutions Committee
- Dr. Zeki Ayağ, Kadir Has University, Turkey
- Amine Belhadi, Industrial Engineering Research Team, Higher School of Technology, Safi, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco
- Sameh Moh. Nour El-Din A-Razek, Al Ezz Dekheila Steel Co., Alexandria, Egypt
- Abdullah Y Dhafer, Aramco, Saudi Arabia
- Natasha Dzulkarnain, Construction Research Institute of Malaysia
- Dr. Kenichi Funaki, Hitachi, Yokohama, Japan
- Dr. Adel Hejaaji, Engineering Services Management Limited, Essex, UK
- Dr. Anwar Hossain, Daikin Applied, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Ihfasuziella Ibrahim, Construction Research Institute of Malaysia (CREAM)
- Dr. MAS Kamal, Toyota Central R&D Labs. Inc., Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
- Hwa Kooi Kok, Intel Malaysia
- Ali Massaeli, National Iranian Gas Company, Iran
- German Moya, President at IEEE Costa Rica Section, Costa Rica
- Paul Moore, International Mining, England, UK
- Dr. Gerard O’Connor, Adelaide and Meath Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
- Dr. Banu Ozkeser, Istanbul, Turkey
- Dr. Sushil K. Shetty, Wilsonart LLC, Temple, Texas, USA
- Masaru Tezuka, Hitachi Solutions East Japan, Ltd., Japan
Woman in Industry and Academia (WIIA) Committee
- Resh Plaha, Crystal Quality, UK
- Dr. Chan Chee-Ming, Associate Professor and Deputy Dean (Academic and Research), Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia
- Dr. Mey Goh, Loughborough University, UK
- Dr. Ilham Kissani, Faulty of Engineering & Management Science, Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco
- Dr. Stefanie Pillai, Dean and Associate Professo, Faculty of Languages & Linguistics, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Dr. Funda Sivrikaya Şerifoğlu, Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey
- Dr. Adibah Shuib, Head of Strategic Planning (Monitoring), Centre for Strategic Planning,Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
- Dr. Vanajah Siva, Chalmers University, Sweden
- Vanessa Victoire, University of Mauritius
- Prof. Soumaya Yacout, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada
Technical Committee
- Dr. Raja Zuraidah Raja Mohd Rasi, Director, Marketing and Corporate Communication Office, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia
- Maram Al-Shammari, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Peter M. Tase, IFEES – GEDC Secretariat
- Dr. A.O. Adewumi, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
- Dr. Kondo H. Adjallah, Paul-Verlaine University, France
- Dr. Abdollah Aghaie, K.N. Toosi University of Technology, Iran
- Dr. Abdul-Rahman Al-Ali, American University of Sharjah, UAE
- Gasim Al-Hawarii, Senior Fleet Management Engineer, Dubai Municipality, UAE
- Ali I. Al-Mosawi, Miskolic University, Hungary
- Dr. Basel Alsayyed, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
- Dr. Kuchkarov Atamurat, Uzbekistan National University, Uzbekistan
- Dr. Faieza Abdul Aziz, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia
- Dr. Amir Azizi, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, Malaysia
- Dr. Bandar A. Alkhayyal, Department of Engineering Management, College of Engineering, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
- Amine Belhadi, Industrial Engineering Research Team, Higher School of Technology, Safi, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakech, Morocco
- Dr. Behnam Bahrami, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, Cyprus
- Dr. D. K. Banwet, IIT-Delhi, India
- Dr. Abdelaziz Berrado, The Ecole Mohammadia d’Ingénieurs, Rabat, Morocco
- Dr. Mahdi Bashiri, Shahed University, Iran
- Dr. Vladimir Beresnev, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Russia
- Dr. Haider Ali Biswas, Khulna University, Bangladesh
- Dr. Miguel Sanz Bobi, Comillas Pontifical University, Spain
- Dr. Nejib Chouaibi, Polytechnic School of Tunisia, Tunisia
- Dr. Mohammad Ishak Desa, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
- Dr. Omar Elmabrouk, Benghazi University, Libya
- Dr. Dinusha Gamage, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
- Dr. Rodrigo Garrido, Universidad Adolfo Ibaez, Chile
- Dr. Vassilis Gerogiannis, Department of Project Management, Greece
- Dr. Jahara bint Ghani, UKM, Malaysia
- Dr. Ravi Gor, St. Kabir Institute of Professional Studies, Ahmedabad, India
- Dr. Kannan Govindan, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
- Dr. Md. Mamun Habib, Universiti Utara Malaysia
- Dr. Ramy Harik, University of South Carolina, USA
- Dr. Maruf Hasan, University of New South Wales, Australia
- Dr. Ahmed Kadhim Hussein, Babylon University, Iraq
- Dr. Javad Khamisabadi, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
- Dr. Raja Kothandaraman, Alpha College of Engineering, Chennai, India
- Dr. Brigitte Jaumard, Concordia University, Canada
- Dr. Rashmi Jha, Gitarattan International Business School (GIBS), Affiliated to Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India
- Dr. Shahrul B. Kamaruddin, Universiti Sains Malaysia
- Dr. Francis Leung, City University of Hong Kong, China
- Dr. Boudouda Malik, University of Champagne-Ardenne, France
- Dr. Ilias Mamat, Quest International University Perak, Ipoh, Malaysia
- Dr. Fulufhelo Masithulela, University of South Africa
- Dr. Abderrahmane Mellak, University of Boumerdes, Algeria
- Dr. Yuan Xue Ming, SIMTech: Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology, Singapore
- Dr. Ruchi Mishra, Institute of Management, Nirma Univ., Ahmedabad, India
- Dr. Vladimir Modrak, TUKE, Slovakia
- Dr. Norhamidi Muhamad, UKM, Malaysia
- Dr. Michael Mutingi, University of Botswana, Botswana
- Dr. Arun N. Nambiar, California State University – Fresno, USA
- Dr. Cecilia Nembou, Divine Word University, Papua New Guinea
- Dr. Sawat Pararach, Thammasat University, Thailand
- Dr. Eui H. Park, North Carolina A&T State University, USA
- Dr. Md. Mizanur Rahman, Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS), Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
- Dr. T. Ramayah, School of Management, Universiti Sains Malaysia
- Dr. Raja Zuraidah Raja Mohd Rasi, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia
- Dr. Bhuvenesh Rajamony, University Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), Malaysia
- Dr. Mohd Abdur Rashid, University Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), Malaysia
- Dr. Syed Asif Raza, Qatar University, Qatar
- Dr. Nubia Milena Velasco Rodriguez, Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia
- Dr. P. Sanjeevikumar, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
- Dr. Mahmood Shafiee, Cranfield University, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
- Dr. Ahm Shamsuzzoha, University of Vaasa, Finland
- Dr. Abdussalam Shibani, Coventry University, UK
- Dr. Sarbjit Singh, National Institute of Technology, Jalandhar, Punjab, India
- Dr. Shahryar Sorooshian, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- Dr. Jayakanth Srinivasan, MIT Sloan School of Management
- Dr. Gopalan Srinivasan, University of New Brunswick, Canada
- Dr. Zuraidah Sulaiman, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
- Dr. Balan Sundarakani, University of Wollongong in Dubai, UAE
- Laurent Tchommo, Operations Management, Department of CIS & BSAN, College of Business, James Madison University, VA, USA
- Dr. Murat Caner Testik, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
- Dr. Theodore B. Trafalis, University of Oklahoma, USA
- Dr. Vladimir I. Tsurkov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
- Dr. Hui-Ming Wee, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan
- Dr. Yong Yin, Yamagata University, Japan
- Dr. Norzaidahwati Zaidin, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor, Malaysia
- Dr. Suhaiza Hanim Zailani,University Malaya, Malaysia
- Dr. Linda L. Zhang, IESEG School of Management, Lille-Paris, France
- Dr. Ali Mostafaeipour, Associate Professor, Industrial Engineering Department, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran
Student Support Committee
- Kaustubh Kale, MSIE Student, Lawrence Technological University, Michigan, USA
- Swapnamurti Bhagwat Wagh, MSIE Student, Lawrence Technological University, Michigan, USA