Keynote Speakers Details

Dr. Abolghasem Yousefi-Babadi works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Yazd University, Iran. He completed his PhD in Industrial Engineering at University of Tehran via the distinguished talent admission program without entrance examination. His core research covers sustainable and resilient supply chain network redesign under uncertainty, reverse logistics, humanitarian disaster supply chains, Bayesian modeling for acceptance sampling, multi-criteria decision making, robust optimization, metaheuristic algorithms and Business Process Management (BPM), and he also engages in teaching and practical consulting on project management, process mining, machine learning and industrial system optimization. He is proficient in dozens of professional software for operations research and process analysis including GAMS, LINGO, MATLAB, Visual Paradigm and Celonis. His doctoral research was financially supported by the Iran National Elites Foundation and Iran National Science Foundation, he has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in top SCI journals such as Computers & Industrial Engineering and Transportation Research Part E, as well as one Persian monograph and several international book chapters, and delivered plenty of oral presentations at domestic and international industrial engineering conferences. He has long organized various workshops and training sessions on BPM, project control, statistical quality control and optimization modeling for oil & gas, steel, manufacturing enterprises, government labor authorities and universities, and teaches a full range of undergraduate and postgraduate core industrial engineering courses. He has won many honors including multiple national young elite recognitions, combining solid academic output with industrial process consulting experience and establishing profound expertise in supply chain optimization, business process reengineering and industrial operations research.