Post-Pandemic Response to Supply Chain Disruptions and Future Vision for the Logistics Industry

• Dr. David Simchi-Levi

  David Simchi-Levi is a Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT and serves as the head of the MIT Data Science Lab.  He is considered one of the premier thought leaders in supply chain management and business analytics.

  Professor Simchi-Levi is the current Editor-in-Chief of Management Science, one of the two flagship journals of INFORMS. He served as the Editor-in-Chief for Operations Research (2006-2012), the other flagship journal of INFORMS and for Naval Research Logistics (2003-2005).

  In 2020, he was awarded the prestigious INFORMS Impact Prize for playing a leading role in developing and disseminating a new highly impactful paradigm for the identification and mitigation of risks in global supply chains.

  He is an INFORMS Fellow and MSOM Distinguished Fellow and the recipient of the 2020 INFORMS Koopman Award given to an outstanding publication in military operations research; Ford Motor Company 2015 Engineering Excellence Award; 2014 INFORMS Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice; 2014 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Practice Award; and 2009 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Prize.

• Dr. Arash Azadegan

  Arash Azadegan (PhD, W.P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University) is an Associate Professor at Rutgers Business School and the Director of Supply Chain Disruption Research Laboratory (SCDrl). He teaches courses on procurement, supply management and supplier risk management. His research focuses on supply chain disruptions, and the effect of inter-organizational response and recovery effort to mitigate them. Dr. Azadegan has ongoing experiment based research projects on the role of organizational, leadership and supply chain resilience in the face of natural and man-made disruptions in general and humanitarian supply chains in particular. Dr. Azadegan’s work is published in several top Operation/Supply Chain Management journals including the Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Supply Chain Management, Production and Operations Management, Journal and the Decision Sciences Journal among others.

• Ms. Marcia Brey

  Marcia Brey is the Vice President of Distribution for GE Appliances, a Haier Company headquartered in Louisville, KY. In this role, she leads all facets of delivering world class service, quality and cost for our U.S. distribution network including warehouse, transportation, logistics, and home delivery to millions of customers and consumers. Marcia is responsible for creating and operating distribution networks for new product verticals and new channels; implementing Smart Distribution ecosystems to achieve world class service levels; and optimizing finished good inventory flow throughout the supply chain.

  Marcia earned Master degrees from both the University of Louisville in Mechanical Engineering and the University of Arizona in Quality and Reliability Engineering.

  Marcia began her 28-year career at Appliances on GE’s Edison Engineering Program and has worked across multiple product lines in design engineering, customer service, sales, marketing, distribution, quality and manufacturing. She most recently was the Lean Enterprise Leader for the company responsible for accelerating and implementing transformational processes, growing the capability of our people and improving management systems at GE Appliances.

  Marcia is the Chair of the Board for the American Red Cross – Kentucky Region and enjoys leading volunteer activities in her community. Marcia and her husband are raising their three children in Louisville, KY.

• Dr. Jumin (Jim) Shi

  Dr. Jim Shi is the Hurlburt Chair professor at NJIT.   His research interests lie in Supply Chain Management (SCM), Business Data Sciences (BDS), Financial Technology (FinTech), Container Shipping Logistics, Blockchain Technology for SCM, Crowdsourcing Economics, Supply Chain Risk and Sustainability, Healthcare Operations, etc. Some of his current research is on the interface between Finance, Supply Chain Management, and Marketing.

  Jim Shi is a recipient of IBM Faculty Award (2019), Excellence in Teaching Award (NJIT University- and College-wide), Robert W. Van Houten Award for Teaching Excellence, Outstanding Faculty Research Award (NJIT University- and College-wide).

  His research appears at numerous scholarly top-tier journals such as Operations Research (OR), Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (MSOM), Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), Naval Research Logistics (NRL), Annals of Operations Research, Operations Research Letter (ORL), European Journal of Operations Research (EJOR), Omega (the International Journal of Management Science). His research has been funded by USDA, IBM, Leir Charitable Foundations, NYSHEX, etc. Dr. Jim Shi has been serving for multiple editorial roles. He is currently serving as Associate Editor for Decision Sciences Journal  (DSJ), Omega, and Data Science and Management (DSM). He also serves as a member of the Editorial Board for Production and Operations Management, and the International Journal of Business Analytics (IJBAN).

  Dr. Shi’s teaching interests include Financial Technology (FinTech), Data Analytics, Business Analysis, Business Statistics, Management Science, Decision Science, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, etc. He has taught at several institutes including NJIT, Robinson College of Business at GSU, Rutgers Business School, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST).

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