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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.

Meet Our Researchers

Mahmut Metin Inan

Doctoral Researcher

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Program of Study:

Industrial Engineering

Simon Kwon

Graduate Research Assistant

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Hyperconnected City Logistics, Hyperconnected Transportation, Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, Physical Internet

Program of Study:

Operations Research

Wencang Bao

Doctoral Researcher

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Hyperconnected Transportation, Supply Chain, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Warehousing, Facility Layout Design, Industrial Engineering, Operations Research

Program of Study:

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Jiachen Shi

Doctoral Researcher

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Hyperconnected Distribution, Supply Chain, Operations Research

Program of Study:

Operations Research

Guanlin Chen

Doctoral Researcher

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Program of Study:

Industrial Engineering

Zhihan Liu

Doctoral Researcher

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Hyperconnected Manufacturing, Facility Layout Design, Industrial Engineering, Physical Internet

Program of Study:

Industrial Engineering

Xiao Huang

Doctoral Student Researcher

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Hyperconnected Networks, Supply Chain, Supply Chain Disruptions

Program of Study:

Operations Research

Camelia Bellepeau

Doctoral Researcher

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Supply Chain Agility, Disaster Management, Physical Internet

Program of Study:

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Tanuj Sheetal Deshmukh

Graduate Research Assistant

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Hyperconnected Transportation, Hyperconnected Networks, Machine Learning, Last-Mile Delivery, Network Design, Operations Research

Program of Study:

Operations Research

Parisa Babolhavaeji

Graduate Research Assistant

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Machine Learning, Operations Research

Program of Study:

Operations Research

Santanu Dey

Anderson-Interface Professor

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Optimization

Sofia Perez-Guzman

Assistant Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Civil and Environmental Engineering

Freight transportation, Humanitarian logistics, Food supply chains

Shihao Yang

Assistant Professor

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Statistics, Big Data

Matthieu Lauras

Full-Professor and Deputy-Head

Priyali S Bandla

Graduate Research Assistant

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Hyperconnected Networks, Operations Research, Physical Internet, Energy Grid

Program of Study:

Industrial Engineering

Miguel Roberto Campos Murcia

Doctoral Researcher

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Hyperconnected City Logistics, Industrial Engineering, Physical Internet

Program of Study:

Industrial Engineering

Yujia Xu

Doctoral Researcher

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Hyperconnected Distribution, Supply Chain, Data Mining

Program of Study:

Supply Chain Engineering

Onkar Anand Kulkarni

Doctoral Researcher

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Hyperconnected City Logistics, Hyperconnected Transportation, Hyperconnected Networks, Supply Chain Disruptions, Network Design

Program of Study:

Industrial Engineering

Praveen Muthukrishnan

Doctoral Student Researcher

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Hyperconnected City Logistics, Hyperconnected Networks, Decision Support Systems, Last-Mile Delivery, Network Design

Program of Study:

Industrial Engineering

Sevda Babalou

Doctoral Researcher

Architecture

Program of Study:

Architecture

Xiaoyue Liu

Doctoral Student Researcher

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Hyperconnected Transportation, Hyperconnected Networks, Supply Chain Disruptions

Program of Study:

Operations Research

Jorge Garcia Zamalloa

Graduate Research Assistant

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Supply Chain, Facility Layout Design, Material Handling, Industrial Engineering, Virtual Reality

Program of Study:

Industrial Engineering

Ziqing Wu

Doctoral Student Researcher

Hyperconnected Networks, Supply Chain, Decision Support Systems, Network Design, Physical Internet

Program of Study:

Industrial Engineering

Nakul Dinkar Kurkute

Masters Researcher

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Hyperconnected Transportation, Hyperconnected Networks

Program of Study:

Industrial Engineering

Louise Lacroix

Graduate Research Assistant

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Physical Internet

Program of Study:

Supply Chain Engineering

Arthur Delarue

Assistant Professor

Industrial and Systems Engineering

mixed-integer optimization

Kamran Paynabar

Fouts Family Professor

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Engineering-Driven Statistical Modeling, Statistical Learning Methods for Big Data Analytics, Quality Engineering, Manufacturing Systems

Chelsea C White III

Schneider National Chair in Transportation and Logistics and Professor

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Logistics, Stochastic Optimization

Bill Loftis

Owner and Principal at Supply Chain Ecology

Xinyue Pan

Doctoral Researcher

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Hyperconnected Fresh Supply Chain

Program of Study:

Industrial Engineering, Minor in Machine Learning

Jisoo Park

Doctoral Researcher

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Program of Study:

Industrial Engineering, Minor in Machine Learning

Nidhima Grover

Doctoral Researcher

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Hyperconnected City Logistics, Hyperconnected Transportation, Supply Chain, Last-Mile Delivery, Operations Research, Physical Internet

Program of Study:

Industrial Engineering

Jingze Li

Doctoral Researcher

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Supply Chain, Machine Learning, Facility Layout Design, Operations Research

Program of Study:

Industrial Engineering

Katja Susann Meuche

Doctoral Researcher

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Hyperconnected Transportation, Hyperconnected Distribution, Hyperconnected Networks, Machine Learning, Advanced Analytics, Network Design, Industrial Engineering, Physical Internet

Program of Study:

Industrial Engineering

Julien Maurice

Graduate Research Assistant

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Hyperconnected Networks, Decision Support Systems, Physical Internet

Program of Study:

Industrial Engineering

Qinghao Zeng

Graduate Research Assistant

Building Construction

Supply Chain, Data Mining, Indoor Environmental Quality, Smart Building, Sustainability

Program of Study:

Building Science and Technology

Tiankuo Zhang

Doctoral Student Researcher

Computational Science and Engineering

Machine Learning, Industrial Engineering, Operations Research

Program of Study:

Computer Science

Neha Lakshmi Mandapati

Research Assistant

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Supply Chain, Network Design, Warehousing, Facility Layout Design, Material Handling, Industrial Engineering

Program of Study:

Industrial Engineering

Prasanna Srinivasan Gorty

Graduate Research Assistant

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Supply Chain, Supply Chain Disruptions, Supply Chain Agility, Warehousing

Program of Study:

Industrial Engineering

David Goldsman

Coca-Cola Foundation Professor

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Operations Research, Applied Statistics, Simulation

Alejandro Toriello

Professor and Scientific Director of the Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Optimization, Logistics, Supply Chains

Isabella Sanders

Assistant Professor

Hyperconnected Transportation/Supply Chain

Program of Study:

Supply Chain Engineering

Johan Leveque

Head of R&D at Le Groupe La Poste

Moussa Hodjat-Shamami

Doctoral Researcher

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Supply Chain Disruptions

Program of Study:

Supply Chain Engineering

Sahrish Jaleel Shaikh

Doctoral Researcher, Graduate Research Assistant

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Hyperconnected Transportation, Hyperconnected Networks, Physical Internet

Program of Study:

Supply Chain Engineering

Ashwin Pothen

Doctoral Researcher

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Hyperconnected Distribution, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Operations Research

Program of Study:

Operations Research

Mingze Li

Doctoral Researcher

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Machine Learning, Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Physical Internet

Program of Study:

Operations Research

Tran Duong Nguyen

Doctoral Student Researcher

Building Construction

BIM, Digital Twin, Energy efficiency, Sustainable design, Modular Construction, Construction Methods

Program of Study:

Building Construction

Yinzhu Quan

Graduate Research Assistant

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Machine Learning

Program of Study:

Machine Learning

Kamyar Fatemifar

Graduate Research Assistant

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

Program of Study:

Building Construction