David Simchi-Levi

Academic Rank: Professor

Current Address:
David Simchi-Levi
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave. Rm. 1-171
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA
Tel: (617) 253-6160
Email:dslevi@mit.edu

Date Current: 7/1/2000

DEGREES:

• Ph.D. in Operations Research, Faculty of Management, Tel-Aviv University, July, 1987.
• M.Sc. in Operations Research, Faculty of Management, Tel-Aviv University, June, 1984.
• B.Sc. in Aeronautical Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, February, 1978.

Ph.D. THESIS:

The Multistop Location Problem, Tel-Aviv University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

• Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Engineering Systems Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000-present.
• Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, 1997-2000.
• Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, 1993-1997.
• Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University, 1991-1994.
• Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University, 1987-1991.
• Lecturer I, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University, 1986-1987.
• Lecturer, Principles of Statistics, Faculty of Management, Tel-Aviv University, 1984-1985.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

• Former Transportation Area Editor for Operations Research, 1996-2000.
• Associate Editor for Operations Research, Naval Research Logistics, Networks, Transportation Science, and Telecommunication Systems. and former Associate Editor for IIE Transactions.
• Co-Editor for a Focused Issue of Transportation Science on Transportation/Manufacturing Interfaces , 1995-1996.
• Invited Associated Editor for a Special Issue of IIE Transactions on Supply Chain Management , 1995-1996.
• Chairman of the INFORMS George Dantzig's Award Committee, 1997.
• Chairman of the INFORM George Dantzig's Award Committee, 1996.
• Member of the ORSA/TIMS George Dantzig's Award Committee, 1995.
• Chairman for the TIMS Dissertation Prize Committee on Location Related Research, 1991-1992.
• Referee for: Annals of Operations Research; Discrete Applied Mathematics; European Journal of Operations Research; IIE Transactions; IEEE Transactions on Computers; J.Assoc.Comput.Mach.; Management Science; Mathematical Programming; Operations Research; Operations Research Letters; ORSA Journal on Computing; Networks; SIAM J.on Computing; Transportation Science.

SCIENTIFIC AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

INFORMS, Institue of Operations Research and the Management Sciences

The Institute of Industrial Engineering

The Mathematical Programming Society

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

.

• M.Sc. degree awarded with Honors (Magna Cum Laude).
• The paper ``Minisum and Minmax Location of a Traveling Salesman'' was awarded the Oded Levin prize for the best Operations Research paper in Israel in 1985.
• School of Industrial Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University, Among the eight top finalists for the Outstanding Instructor Award, 1990-1991.
• Awarded the Alon Fellowship given by the Council of Higher Education, Israel, to outstanding young scientists, 1993-1996 (declined).
• A Computerized System for School Bus Routing in New York City developed together with the NYC Board of Education/Office of pupil transportation, the Fund for the City of NY and Julien Bramel won the first place prize in the government/public sector category of the Windows World Open Competition, Atlanta May 1994. The competition was sponsored by, among others, Microsoft, Borland, AT\&T, the Computer World magazine and the Windows World Conference.
• The paper ``Probabilistic Analysis of a Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows'' co-authored with J. Bramel and C. L. Li was awarded the 1994 Jacob Wolfowitz Prize given by the American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences.
• The book "Designing and Managing the Supply Chain: Concepts, Strategies and Case-Studies" won the Book-of-the-Year Award, and Outstanding IIE Publication Award given in 2000 by the Institute of Industrial Engineers.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Design of distribution/service systems
• Integrating inventory control and transportation costs
• Inventory theory
• Location theory
• Production systems: design and control
• Scheduling and sequencing
• Supply-Chain Management
• Telecommunications networks: design and control
• Vehicle routing problems

INVITED TALKS, ACADEMIA

Columbia University (5/86); M.I.T. (2/87); Northwestern University (4/88); University of Bonn (6/88); Rutgers University (12/88); RPI (3/89); AT\&T Bell Laboratories (6/89); The University pf Maryland (10/89); Yale University (4/89); University of Montreal (1/91); M.I.T. (3/91); University of Rochester (4/91); Stanford University (2/92); The University of British Columbia (2/92); Georgia Tech. (4/92); NYU (4/92); Wharton School (5/92); Princeton (12/92); University of Toronto (1/93); Northwestern University (1/93); Berkeley (3/93); Erasmus University (6/93); University of Eindhoven (6/93); University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (10/93); University of Texas, Austin (12/93); University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2/94); University of Chicago (11/94); Tel-Aviv University (11/95); Technion Israel Institute of Technology (11/95); Washington University, St.~Louis (10/96); M.I.T. (5/97); University of Texas A&M (3/98); University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (12/98); The University of Texas at Dallas (12/98); Wharton School (2/99); Lehigh University (2/99); MIT (4/99); Boston University (4/99); MIT (9/99); Georgia Tech (10/99); New Jersey Institute of Technology, National Center for Transportation and Industrial Productivity (12/99); University of Toronto (12/99); University of Pittsburgh (12/99); MIT (3/00).

INVITED TALKS, INDUSTRY

GTE Laboratories (5/87); AT\&T Bell Laboratories (6/89); GTE Laboratories (1/92); Senn-Delaney, A Unit of Arthur Andersen LLP (8/95); Krueger International (9/95); American President Business Logistics Services (11/95); LifeSource Blood Services (1/96); Philips Laboratories (3/96); Federal Express (4/96); i2 Technologies (8/96); Schneider Logistics (3/97); Andersen Consulting and Ryder Integrated Logistics Executives (2/98); Council of Logistics Management (3/98); General Motors (5/98); MIT Executive Program on Logistics and Supply Chain Management (7/98); Chicago INFORMS Chapter at United Airline (9/98); Allison Transmission (9/98); TruServ (3/99); MIT Executive Program on Logistics and Supply Chain Management (7/99); Warner-Lambert Company (8/99); TruServ (9/99); Amplats, World Leader in Platinum, South Africa (11/99); The Project Management Institute, St. Louis Chapter (2/00); General Motors (2/00); Sintec, Mexico City (5/00).

RESEARCH SUPPORT:

• Center for Telecommunication Research, June 1987-May 1994.
• Office of Naval Research, "Analytical Analysis of Vehicle Routing and Inventory Routing Problems" May 1990-September 1992.
• National Science Foundation, "Analytical Analysis of Vehicle Routing and Inventory Routing Problems" August 1990-August 1993.
• National Science Foundation, "Workshop on Global Distribution Management'' February 1993.
• Office of Naval Research. "Analytical Analysis of Vehicle Routing and Inventory Routing Problems" October 1992- December 1995.
• National Science Foundation, "Development and Analysis of Robust and Efficient Algorithms for Vehicle Routing" July 1994-July 1997.
• National Science Foundation, ``Engineering Research Equipment: A Multi-Processor Computing Facility for Large Scale Optimization'' (co-PI with Robert Fourer and Sanjay Mehrotra) September 1994-September 1995.
• S&C Electric, Development of a computerized system for production scheduling, (co-PI with Yehuda Bassok) 1994-1997.
• Office of Naval Research. "Theoretical Analysis and Practical Algorithms for Large-Scale Distribution and Strike-Routing Problems" Febraury 1996- October 1998.
• JGC Corporation of Japan. "Scenario Generation and Evaluation of Discrete-Event Simulation" (co-PI with Barry Nelson) October 1996- March 1997.
• Port of Singapore Authority. "AGV Routing: Algorithms Development" (co-PI with Barry Nelson) November 1996- December 1997.
• National Science Foundation, "Development and Analysis of Robust and Efficient Algorithms for Large Scale Production/Distribution Systems" July 1998-July 2001.
• Office of Naval Research. "Theoretical Analysis and Practical Algorithms for Large-Scale Distribution and Logistics Problems" Febraury 1999- January 2002.
• General Motors Corporation, "Applied Pricing Research for CAFE and Vehicle Distribution" January 1999- May 2000.
• General Motors Corporation, "Effect of Make-To-Order on Supply Chain Performance" January 2000- July 2000.
• General Motors Corporation, "Setting Forecasts and Initial Order Quantities for Spare Parts" March 2000- July 2000.
• Office of Naval Research. "Theoretical Analysis and Practical Algorithms for Large-Scale Distribution and Logistics Problems" January 2001- December 2003.
• National Science Foundation, "Transportation, Logistics, and the Internet: New Challenges and Opportunities" (co-PI with Cynthia Barnhart) August 2000-August 2001.
• eBusiness Center, "Dynamic Pricing to Improve Supply Chain Performance" September 2000-August 2001.

COLLABORATING AND/OR CONSULTING:

• Archer Services, Inc., New York, in the area of servers' dispatching and routing, 1986.
• The City of New York, Developing a computerized system for school bus routing and scheduling in New York City, 1991-1995.
• Senn-Delaney, A Unit of Arthur Andersen LLP, Developing a warehouse simulation model, summer 1995
.
• RAM Mobile Data, Developing a computerized system for truck routing, scheduling and dispatching in the LTL industry, 1993-1994.
• S&C Electric, Developing a computerized system for production scheduling, 1994-1997.
• WIRELESSLINKS, Developing a dispatching system for truck routing, 1995.
• RANK VIDEO Services America, in the area of supply chain management, summer 1996.
• Schneider Logistics, in the area of Supply Chain Management, summer 1997-1998.
• General Motors Corporation, Developing a dynamic pricing strategy to improve supply chain performance, Fall 1998-present.
• General Motors Corporation, Effect of Make-to-Order on Supply Chain Performance, 1999.
• General Motors Corporation, Spare Parts Inventory Models, 1999.



SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT:

• "Decision Support System for Distribution Management" developed for managing complex distribution problems and includes a Geographic Information System (called Maptitude from Caliper Inc.) that interacts with a variety of algorithms for warehouse location, vehicle routing, supply-chain management and integrated inventory-routing models. Written in Visual C++ for IBM PC and compatibles and runs under Windows. Developed jointly with J. Bramel and E. Simchi-Levi.
• "Decision Support System for Production Scheduling" developed for managing complex manufacturing processes. The system includes a large database, a schedule generation module and a user interface module. Written in Borland C++ for IBM PC and compatibles and runs under Windows. Developed jointly with P. Kaminsky.
• "A Computerized Version of the Beer Game" developed as a course software tool to demonstrate the value of information in the supply chain. Written in Visual C++ for IBM PC and compatibles and runs under Windows. Developed jointly with P. Kaminsky.
• "Facility Layout and Planning" developed as a course software tool. Written in Turbo C for IBM PC and compatibles. Includes pop-up menus, full-screen edit function and graphics print-out option. Developed jointly with E. Simchi-Levi.
• For more information on the software developed, click here.



BOOKS:

For information about my books click here.



PUBLICATIONS:

For a list of publications click here.



Ph.D. STUDENTS:

For a list of Ph.D. students click here.



POST DOCTORAL FELLOW:

For the name of my post doctoral fellow click here.



CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

Numerous presentations at conferences of professional societies including ORSA/TIMS joint National Meeting, SIAM Conference on Optimization, Mathematical Programming, and Israeli ORSIS meetings.



COURSES TAUGHT:

Columbia U., IEOR E6402x Facilities Planning and Physical Distribution, Fall 1986
Columbia U., IEOR E4000x Production Management, Fall 1986
Columbia U., IEOR E3402y Production-Inventory Planning and Control, Spring 1987
Columbia U., IEOR E3406y Facilities Layout and Planning, Spring 1987
Columbia U., IEOR E4000x Production Management, Fall 1987
Columbia U., IEOR E6402x Facilities Planning and Physical Distribution, Fall 1987
Columbia U., IEOR E3402y Production-Inventory Planning and Control, Spring 1988
Columbia U., IEOR E3406y Facilities Layout and Planning, Spring 1988
Columbia U., IEOR E6403x Routing, Fall 1988
Columbia U., IEOR E6402x Facilities Planning and Physical Distribution, Fall 1988
Columbia U., IEOR E4000y Production Management, Spring 1989
Columbia U., IEOR E3406y Facilities Layout and Planning, Spring 1989
Columbia U., IEOR E6402x Facilities Planning and Physical Distribution, Fall 1989
Columbia U., IEOR E6403x Routing, Fall 1989
Columbia U., IEOR E4000y Production Management, Spring 1990
Columbia U., IEOR E3406y Facilities Layout and Planning, Spring 1990
Columbia U., IEOR E9901x Operations Research Seminar, Fall 1990
Columbia U., IEOR E6402x Facilities Planning and Physical Distribution, Fall 1990
Columbia U., IEOR E6403x Routing, Fall 1990
Columbia U., IEOR E4000y Production Management, Spring 1991
Columbia U., IEOR E3406y Facilities Layout and Planning, Spring 1991
Columbia U., IEOR E6403x Routing, Fall 1991
Columbia U., IEOR E9901x Operations Research Seminar, Fall 1991
Columbia U., IEOR E4000y Production Management, Spring 1992
Columbia U., IEOR E3406y Facilities Layout and Planning, Spring 1992
Columbia U., IEOR E4000x Production Management, Fall 1992
Columbia U., IEOR E4406x Facilities Layout and Planning, Fall 1992
Columbia U., IEOR E6403y Routing, Spring 1993
Columbia U., IEOR E4404y Simulation, Spring 1993
Northwestern U., IE C35 Systems Simulation, Fall 1993
Northwestern U., IE C35 Systems Simulation, Winter 1993
Northwestern U., IE D80 Logistics: Production and Economics, Winter 1993
Northwestern U., IE E20 Operations Research Seminar, Winter 1993
Northwestern U., IE D07 Decision Models, Fall 1994
Northwestern U., IE D80-1 Production and Economics, Winter 1995
Northwestern U., IE D82 Production Scheduling, Winter 1995
Northwestern U., IE C35 Systems Simulation, Winter 1995
Northwestern U., IE D90 Operations Research Seminar, Winter 1996
Northwestern U., IE D80-1 Production and Economics, Winter 1996
Northwestern U., IE C35 Systems Simulation, Winter 1996
Northwestern U., IE D97 Supply Chain Management, Spring 1996
Northwestern U., IE D90 Logistics Management, Summer 1996
Northwestern U., IE D82 Production Scheduling, Winter 1997
Northwestern U., IE D80-1 Production and Economics, Winter 1997
Northwestern U., IE C35 Systems Simulation, Spring 1997
Northwestern U., IE D97 Supply Chain Management, Spring 1997
Northwestern U., IE D90 Logistics Management, Summer 1997
Northwestern U., IE D84 Inventory and Distribution Systems, Winter 1998
Northwestern U., IE D80-1 Production and Economics, Winter 1998
Northwestern U., IE C35 Systems Simulation, Spring 1998
Northwestern U., IE D97 Supply Chain Management, Spring 1998
Northwestern U., IE D90 Logistics Management, Summer 1998
Northwestern U., IE C28 Location Theory, Winter 1999
Northwestern U., IE C35 Systems Simulation, Spring 1999
Northwestern U., IE D97 Supply Chain Management, Spring 1999
Northwestern U., IE D90 Logistics Management, Summer 1999
Northwestern U., IE D80-1 Production and Economics, Winter 2000
Northwestern U., IE C35 Systems Simulation, Spring 2000
Northwestern U., IE D97 Supply Chain Management, Spring 2000
Northwestern U., IE D90 Logistics Management, Summer 2000
MIT 1.270J/ESD273J Distribution Management, Fall 2000





SERVICE:

• Administrator, CIM Laboratory, School of Engineering, Columbia U., 1987-1993
• Library Committee, School of Engineering, Columbia U., 1987-1993
• Admission Committee, School of Engineering, Columbia U., 1987-1993
• Committee on Instruction, School of Engineering, Columbia U., 1990-1992
• Graduate Committee, Department of IE/MS, Northwestern U., 1994-2000
• Chairman, Undergraduate Manufacturing Academic Committee, School of Engineering, Northwestern U., 1994-2000
• Institute Committee on Operations Research, MIT, 2000-2003
• Master of Science in Transportation Review Committee, MIT, 2000-2001
• Civil Engineering Undergraduate Education Committee, MIT, 2000-2001



Return to David Simchi-Levi Main Homepage.



Last Update: January 15, 1997