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Our Team

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Supply Chain Analytics

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Elkafi Hassini

Research Director

Professor Hassini specializes in data-driven optimization with applications in supply chain management. His current research interests include big data optimization, supply chain analytics, supply chain risk management, sustainability performance measurement and strategic procurement. His research has been funded by several funding agencies including CFI, MRI ORF-RI, NSERC and SSHRC. His research has also been recognized through best paper awards and the faculty researcher of the year award.

He teaches supply chain management, procurement operations management and applied optimization.

Contact info:

hassini@mcmaster.ca

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Supply Chain Team

Si Liu

Management Science

Research Area:
Data-driven optimization

Emanuele Blassioli

Management Science

Research Area:
Healthcare supply chain

Shamik Pushkar

Management Science

Research Area:
Last-mile logistics, Optimization

Armagan Ozbilge

Operations Management

Research Area:
Perishable food supply chain, Pricing

Nishit Bhavsar

Computational Science

Research Area:
Large Scale Optimization, Machine Learning

Yunfei Ma

Computational Science

Research Area:
Freight Transportation, Bottleneck Analysis

Ahana Malhotra

Management Science

Research Area:
Crowd sourcing, last-mile logistics, EDI

Heider Al Mashalah

Computational Science

Research Area:
Supply chain & big data, consumer behavior

Dewan F. Wahid

Computational Science

Research Area:
Data-driven Optimization, Network Sciences

Rayan B. Daya

Computational Science

Research Area:
Sustainable Logistics, Big Data Optimization

Junyi Shi

Computational Science

Research Area:
Health Informatics, Deep Learning

Amirhossein Yaghoubi

Management Science

Research Area:
Data-Driven Optimization

Marketing & Retail Analytics

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Saurav Ray

Research Director

Dr. Sourav Ray’s expertise is in Industrial and Retail Marketing strategies with specific research interests in Strategic Pricing and Distribution Channel issues.

Recent topics of his research include using Big Data technologies for managing distribution channels, and dynamic pricing and product marketing practices in high-tech markets and Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) retail.

Contact info:

sray@mcmaster.ca

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Marketing team

Rehan Khan

Research Area:
Efficient Design of Sales Channels

Nehal Elhelaly

Research Area:
Marketing strategy, Channel collaborations

Bharat Vaishnav

Research Area:
Multichannel Marketing, Marketing Strategy