Conference Committee

Nick Skope, Vice President – Vendor Relations and New Business Development, Electro-Matic, Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA

Kush Shah, Chief Executive Officer, Global Organizational Excellence Solutions LLC (GOES) and GM Fellow, ASQ Fellow, SSMBB, DFSS MBB, Shainin Red X Master, Design Thinking Coach, ASQ-CMQ/OE, CSSBB, CQE, CQA, CBA, Michigan, USA
Steve Sibrel, Senior Supplier Quality Management, Harman International
Dr. Saso Krstovski, MBB, Michigan, USA

Dr. Ahad Ali, Associate Professor and Director of Industrial Engineering Program, A. Leon Linton Department of Mechanical, Robotics and Industrial Engineering, Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, Michigan, USA
Dr. George Pappas, Director of Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, Michigan, USA
Dr. Leslie Monplaisir, Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs and Professor, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Dr. Muhammad Sohail Ahmed, Professor of Engineering Management, School of Engineering, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan, USA

Track Chairs

Dr. Olufemi Adetunji, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Dr. Umar AL-Turki, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia
Dr. Shekar Babu, Founding Head, AMRITA School of Business, Bangalore, India
Dr. Abdul Talib Bon, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia
Dr. Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes, University of Derby, UK
Dr. Moncer Abdelhamid Hariga, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE)
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. Abdur Rahim, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Dr. Jafri Mohd Rohani, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Dr. Rosemary Seva, De La Salle University – Manila, Philippines
Dr. Devdas Shetty, University of Hartford, Connecticut, 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. Hari Agung Yuniarto, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
Dr. Li Zheng, Tsinghua University, China
Dr. Henk Zijm, Dutch Institute for Advanced Logistics, University of Twente, Netherlands

Dr. Fernando González Aleu, Departamento de Ingeniería, Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico
Dr. D. K. Banwet, IIT-Delhi, India
Dr. Abdelaziz Berrado, The Ecole Mohammadia d’Ingénieurs (EMI), Rabat, Morocco
Dr. Vassilis Gerogiannis, Department of Project Management, Greece
Dr. Jahara bint Ghani, UKM, Malaysia
Dr. Salah Haridy, Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE
Dr. Indra Gunawan, The University of Adelaide, Australia