Dr. Sofía Pérez-Guzmán serves as an Assistant Professor within the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She also holds a courtesy appointment at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. Prior to this, she worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Center for Infrastructure, Transportation, and the Environment.
Dr. Pérez-Guzmán's primary interest lies in addressing wicked problems within supply chain and transportation domains. These challenges often encompass disruptions, human behavior, multiple stakeholders, and equity and sustainability objectives. Her ongoing research focuses on disaster response logistics, food systems logistics, and urban freight transportation, with an overarching aim of enhancing the social performance of supply chains. Her research methodologies include optimization, simulation, data analytics, econometrics, empirical approaches, as well as behavioral and economic theories.
