Welcome to the Physical Internet Center at Georgia Tech
The center's mission is threefold...
To provide worldwide scientific leadership in the development and implementation of the Physical Internet concept while positioning the Physical Internet Center as the primary resource for related education and innovation.
To pursue technological breakthroughs through our cutting-edge research laboratory while gathering a diverse team of faculty, graduate students and undergraduate research assistants in an interactive and collaborative environment.
To engage the Center's corporate partners as "living laboratories" to enable change in the field for testing and applying new technological advances and methods into real-world, practical situations.
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Meet Our Researchers
Adjunct Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Information System, Risk and Crisis Management, Model-Driven Engineering, Interoperability, Artificial Intelligence, Service-Oriented and Event-Driven Architectures, Decision Support System, supply chain
Affiliate Associate Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Supply Chains, Revenue Management, Machine Learning
Adjunct Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Supply Chain Management, Physical Internet, Demand Driven Adaptive Enterprise, Humanitarian Logistics, Operations Research, Risk and Crisis Management
Professor
Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Operations Management, Supply Chain Resilience
Head of R&D at Le Groupe La Poste, Chair of Urban Logistics at ALICE-ETP
Operations Research, Optimization, Urban Logistics
Assistant Professor, Associate Director, SDAC
Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain & Logistics, Food Distribution
Associate Chair for Research, Co-Executive Director, Georgia Tech Panama Logistics Innovation & Research Center, Manhattan Associates/Dabbiere Chair, Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Logistics, Transportation, Operations Research
UPS Professor, Associate Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Optimization, Logistics, Supply Chains
Coca-Cola Material Handling & Distribution Chair, Professor, Executive Director Supply Chain and Logistics Institute
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Physical Internet, Hyperconnected Logistics, Network Design
Schneider National Chair in Transportation and Logistics, Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Logistics, Stochastic Optimization
Director of Professional Practice, Director of Education and Projects, Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Discrete Event Logistics Systems (Healthcare Delivery, Manufacturing, Distribution), Humanitarian Logistics, Warehousing and Facility Logistics Systems
Fouts Family Early Career Professor, Associate Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Engineering-Driven Statistical Modeling, Statistical Learning Methods for Big Data Analytics, Quality Engineering, Manufacturing Systems
Professor Emeritus
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Model-based Systems Engineering, Discrete Event Logistics Systems
Assistant Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Operations Research, Optimization, Game Theory, Service Operations Management
Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, A. Russell Chandler III Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Optimization
Frederick R. Dickerson Chair, Professor
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Autonomous and Connected Transportation (ACT), Dynamics of Large-Scale Transportation Systems, Network Planning and Design Models, Human-Machine Interfaces under ACT Technologies, Transportation, Energy and Environment Linkages
Anderson-Interface Chair of Natural Systems , Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Industrial ecology, Energy, Environmental, Technology assessment
Harold R. and Mary Anne Nash Early Career Professor , Associate Director of Machine Learning and Data Science, Associate Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Statistics, Big Data, Signal/Information Processing
Assistant Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Mixed-integer Optimization, Machine Learning, Transportation, Public Policy
Coca-Cola Foundation Early Career Professor , Assistant Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Simulation, Optimization
Edenfield Executive-in-Residence, Professor of the Practice, SCL Managing Director, Georgia Tech Professional Education Academic Program Director
Supply Chain and Logistics Institute
Consumer Products Supply Chain, Supply Chain Strategy & Transformation, Footprint Design & Network Optimization, Logistics and Supply Chain Planning
Assistant Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Adjunct Professor, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Civil Engineering
Urban Freight Transportation, Humanitarian Logistics, Food Systems Logistics, Multimodal Freight Resilience
Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, Director, Smart Built Environment Eco-System (Smart Bees) Laboratory
Building Construction
Integrated Project Delivery, BIM for Facility Management and Design, Smart Built Environments, Construction Contracting, Life Cycle Cost Analysis, Lean Construction
Coca-Cola Foundation Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Operations Research, Applied Statistics, Simulation
Doctoral Researcher
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Hyperconnected City Logistics, Industrial Engineering, Physical Internet
Doctoral Researcher
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Hyperconnected Transportation, Hyperconnected Networks, Physical Internet
Doctoral Researcher
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Hyperconnected City Logistics, Hyperconnected Transportation, Hyperconnected Networks, Supply Chain Disruptions, Network Design
Doctoral Researcher
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Hyperconnected Transportation, Hyperconnected Distribution, Hyperconnected Networks, Machine Learning, Advanced Analytics, Network Design, Industrial Engineering, Physical Internet
Doctoral Researcher
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Hyperconnected City Logistics, Hyperconnected Transportation, Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, Physical Internet
Doctoral Researcher
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Hyperconnected Distribution, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Operations Research
Doctoral Researcher
Building Construction
BIM, Digital Twin, Energy efficiency, Sustainable design, Modular Construction, Construction Methods
Doctoral Researcher
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Optimization, Simulation, AI Agents for Decision Making
Doctoral Researcher
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Supply Chain, Facility Layout Design, Material Handling, Industrial Engineering, Virtual Reality
Doctoral Researcher
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Supply Chain, Machine Learning, Facility Layout Design, Operations Research
Doctoral Researcher
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Hyperconnected Networks, Decision Support Systems, Physical Internet
Doctoral Researcher
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Supply Chain Engineering, Pptimization, Machine Learning
Doctoral Researcher
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Hyperconnected Distribution, Supply Chain, Operations Research
Doctoral Researcher
Building Construction
Hyperconnected City Logistics, Hyperconnected Networks, , Supply Chain, Supply Chain Agility, Machine Learning, Advanced Analytics, Decision Support Systems, Warehousing, Digital Twins, Building Information Modeling
Doctoral Researcher
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Machine Learning, Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Physical Internet
Doctoral Researcher
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Hyperconnected City Logistics, Hyperconnected Transportation, Supply Chain, Last-Mile Delivery, Operations Research, Physical Internet
Doctoral Researcher
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Hyperconnected City Logistics, Hyperconnected Networks, Decision Support Systems, Last-Mile Delivery, Network Design
Doctoral Researcher
Building Construction
Supply Chain, Data Mining, Indoor Environmental Quality, Smart Building, Sustainability
Doctoral Researcher
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Hyperconnected Transportation, Supply Chain, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Warehousing, Facility Layout Design, Industrial Engineering, Operations Research
Doctoral Researcher
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Hyperconnected Networks, Supply Chain, Supply Chain Disruptions
Doctoral Researcher
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Hyperconnected Transportation, Hyperconnected Networks, Supply Chain Disruptions
Doctoral Researcher
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Hyperconnected Distribution, Supply Chain, Data Mining
Doctoral Researcher
Architecture
Facility Layout Design Development, Optimization, Automation
Doctoral Researcher
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Hyperconnected Manufacturing, Facility Layout Design, Industrial Engineering, Physical Internet
Doctoral Researcher
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Supply Chain Agility, Disaster Management, Physical Internet
Doctoral Researcher
Computer Science
Machine Learning, Industrial Engineering, Operations Research
Doctoral Researcher
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Hyperconnected Networks, Supply Chain, Decision Support Systems, Network Design, Physical Internet
Masters Researcher
GITFIT Program
Hyperconnected Transportation, Hyperconnected Networks, Physical Internet
Masters Researcher
School of Interactive Computng
Supply Chain, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Operations Research
Masters Researcher
Dining Services
Supply Chain, Supply Chain Disruptions, Supply Chain Agility, Warehousing
Masters Researcher
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Hyperconnected Transportation, Hyperconnected Networks
Masters Researcher
Dining Services
Supply Chain, Network Design, Warehousing, Facility Layout Design, Material Handling, Industrial Engineering
Masters Researcher
School of Interactive Computng
Machine Learning, Operations Research
Masters Researcher
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Hyperconnected City Logistics, Supply Chain, Machine Learning, Advanced Analytics
Masters Researcher
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Hyperconnected Transportation, Hyperconnected Networks, Machine Learning, Last-Mile Delivery, Network Design, Operations Research
Masters Researcher
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Hyperconnected Networks, Supply Chain, Physical Internet, High Performance Computing
Research Scientist
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Reconfigurable Supply Chains, City Logistics, Network Design, Physical Internet, Large Scale Optimization
Assistant Professor, Department of Technology
Department of Technology
Smart Manufacturing, Cloud Manufacturing, and Blockchain Technology
Postdoc Research Engineer II-LT
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Physical Internet, Hyperconnected Logistics, Network Design
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Hyperconnected Networks, Operations Research, Physical Internet, Energy Grid
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