BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Professor David Simchi-Levi

David Simchi-Levi is a professor of Engineering Systems at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research currently focuses on developing and implementing robust and efficient techniques for manufacturing and logistics systems. He has published widely in professional journals on both practical and theoretical aspects of logistics and supply chain management. He has been the principal investigator for about two million dollars in funded academic research. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Naval Research Logistics, an Area Editor for IIE Transactions, an Associate Editor for several scientific journals, and a former Area Editor of Transportation for Operations Research. His Ph.D. students have accepted positions in leading academic institutes including Berkeley, Columbia U., U. of Michigan, Purdue U., Georgia Tech, and Virginia Tech.

Professor Simchi-Levi is the co-author (with Julien Bramel) of The Logic of Logistics, published by Springer in 1997. His book, Designing and Managing the Supply Chain (with P. Kaminsky and E. Simchi-Levi) was published by McGraw-Hill in August 1999, 2n Edition appeared in October 2002. The book received the Book-of-the-Year Award and the Outstanding IIE Publication Award given in 2000 by the Institute of Industrial Engineers. The book also received the Outstanding First Edition of the Year Award given in 2000 by McGraw-Hill. The book was selected by Business 2.0, December 2001 issue, as the best source for slashing time and cost and increasing productivity in the supply chain. The book has been translated to Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Portuguese.

He is the founder and chairman of LogicTools (www.logic-tools.com), a company that provides Decision Support Systems and professional services for supply chain planning. These systems have been used widely to reduce cost and improve service level in large-scale logistics systems. Clients include Caterpillar, ConAgra, Kraft Foods, Mercer Management, Ryder, SC Johnson, UPS, US Postal Service, Walgreens to name a few.

Professor Simchi-Levi has consulted and collaborated extensively with private and public organizations. He is one of the developers of a Decision Support System for school bus routing used by New York City Board of Education to route and schedule school buses throughout the five boroughs in New York City. The system won the first place prize in the 1994 Win World Competition for the Public Sector.