Ahmed Ghoniem
PhD Coordinator & Associate Professor Operations & Information Management
Office: Isenberg 317
Tel: 413.545.3927
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Academic Background
Education
PhD, Virginia Tech, 2007
MSc, Virginia Tech, 2003
MSc, Ecole des Mines de Nantes (France), 2002
Academic Appointments
Associate Professor of Operations & Information Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 7/2015-Present
Assistant Professor of Operations & Information Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 9/2008-6/2015
Postdoctoral Associate, Industrial & Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, 8/2007-8/2008
Research Interests
- Retail Analytics
- Supply Chain Management
- Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
- Routing & Scheduling
- Airport Operations Management
- Mathematical Modeling
- Optimization Methodologies
Teaching Interests
Undergraduate
- Manufacturing & Service Operations Methods
- Supply Chain Management
Masters
- Deterministic Models in Management Science
PhD
- Integer Programming
- Deterministic Models in Management Science
Recent Honors & Awards
Analytics for System-Wide Infrastructure and Capacity Planning for Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup", Qatar National Research Fund ($530,477), 2013-2016
Isenberg School of Management Outstanding Teaching Award, 2012-2013
IIE Transactions Best Paper Prize, 2012
ISERC Conference, winning paper in OR Track, 2012
"Cutting-Edge Optimization for Modern, Consumer-Focused Retailing"; Qatar National Research Fund ($511,185), 2012-2014
Nominated for Isenberg School of Management Outstanding Teaching Award, 2011-2012
Chancellor's Junior Faculty Fellow., 2011-2012
"Integrated Modeling and Optimization Approaches for Airport Terminal Area Management."; Qatar National Research Fund ($493,032), 2010-2013
Selected Publications
Ghoniem, A., Maddah, B., and Ibrahim, A. (2014), Optimizing assortment and pricing of multiple retail categories with cross-selling, Journal of Global Optimization, (forthcoming).
Farhadi, F., Ghoniem, A., Al-Salem, A. (2014), Runway capacity management -- an empirical study with application to Doha International Airport, Transportation Research Part E, 68, 53-63.
Ghoniem, A., Sherali, H. D., and Baik, H. (2014), Enhanced models for a mixed arrival-departure aircraft sequencing problem, INFORMS Journal on Computing, 26 (3), 514-530.
Ali, A. I., Ghoniem, A., and Franke, A. (2014), Evaluating capacity management tactics for a legacy manufacturing plant, Journal of the Operational Research Society, 65, 1361-1370.