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Professional Activities

Editorial Activities:

  • Guest Editor, Special Issue on TSL Conference 2023, Transportation Science, July 2023 – present.

  • Guest Editor, Special Issue on Emerging Topics in Transportation and Logistics. INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research, May 2023 – present.

  • Senior Associate Editor, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, August 2021 – present.

  • Associate Editor, Service Science, January 2024 – present.

  • Associate Editor, Transportation Science, October 2023 – present.

  • Editorial Board Editor, Transportation Research Part B, May 2021 – present.

  • Editorial Board Member, Computers & Operations Research, July 2016 – December 2023.

  • Associate Editor, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, September 2020 – July 2021.

  • Guest Editor, Special Issue: Recent Advances in Hub Location, Computers & Operations Research 104, 2019. (co-edited with J. F. Campbell)

  • Guest Editor, Special Issue: Recent Advances in Location Analysis, Computers & Operations Research 62, October 2015. (co-edited with B. Y. Kara)

  • Reviewer for:  Annals of Operations Research, Applied Mathematical Modelling, Central European Journal of Operations Research, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Computers & Operations Research, Discrete Applied Mathematics, European Journal of Operational Research, European Journal of Industrial Engineering, IEEE Communication Letters, IIE Transactions, INFOR, International Journal of Production Economics, International Transactions in Operational Research, Journal of Advanced Transportation, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Networks, Networks and Spatial Economics, OMEGA, Operations Research for Health Care, Operations Research Letters, Optimization, Optimization Letters, OR Spectrum, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Soft Computing, TOP, Transportation Research Part A, Transportation Research Part B, Transportation Research Part E, Transportation Science.

Professional Organizations:

  • Founding President, Transportation & Logistics Special Interest Group of the Canadian Operational Research Society, October 2022 – present.

  • Senior Member, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), March 2024 – present.

  • Chair, Gilbert Laporte Student Paper Competition Committee, February 2024 – June 2024.

  • Councillor, Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS), June 2022 – June 2024.

  • President, INFORMS Section on Location Analysis, October 2019 – October 2021.

  • Vice President, INFORMS Section on Location Analysis, October 2017 – October 2019.

  • Chair, Lifetime Achievement in Location Analysis (LALA) Award Committee, April 2021 - June 2021.

  • Chair, Chuck ReVelle Rising Star Award Committee, INFORMS Section on Location Analysis, April 2019 – June 2019, April 2021 – June 2021.

  • Secretary, INFORMS Section on Location Analysis, November 2015 – October 2017.

  • Chair, INFORMS Section on Location Analysis PhD Dissertation Award Committee, September 2016 – November 2016.

  • Founder and moderator of the website http://isoldeconference.org, December 2013 – present.

  • Board Member, EURO Working Group on Locational Analysis (EWGLA), October 2011 – May 2015.

  • Member, INFORMS Sections and Societies Committee, January 2021 – December 2022.

  • Member, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society (TSL), INFORMS Women in ORMS Forum (WORMS), The Association of European Operational Research Societies (EURO), EURO Working Group on Locational Analysis (EWGLA), Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS), Operational Research Society of Turkey (YAD/ORST).

Conference Administration:

Conference organizer:

  • Organizing Committee Member, ISOLDE XVII, 17th International Symposium on Locational Decisions, Chicago and Milwaukee, USA, June 15-19, 2026.

  • Organizing Committee Member, TSL Conference 2023, INFORMS Transportation and Logistics Society 2nd Triennial Conference, Chicago, July 23-26, 2023.

  • Organizing Committee Member, 14th International Symposium on Locational Decisions (ISOLDE XIV), Toronto and Huntsville, July 10-14, 2017.

  • Chair of the Scientific and Organizing Committees, 20th EURO Working Group on Locational Analysis Meeting (EWGLA XX), Ankara, April 2013.

Scientific/Program Committee Member:

  • TSL Workshop 2024, 11th INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society Workshop, Nantes, France, September 25-27, 2024.
  • ISOLDE XVI, 16th International Symposium on Locational Decisions, Kaiserslautern and Baden-Baden, Germany, June 25-30, 2023.
  • EWGLA XXVII, 27th EURO Working Group on Locational Analysis Meeting, Aveiro, Portugal, September, 14-16, 2022.
  • ISOLDE XV, 15th International Symposium on Locational Decisions, University of Wuppertal, Germany, July 5-9, 2021.
  • EWGLA XXV, 25th EURO Working Group on Locational Analysis Meeting, Brussels, June 5-7, 2019.
  • EWGLA XXIV, 24th EURO Working Group on Locational Analysis Meeting, Edinburgh, May 23-25, 2018.
  • ISOLDE XIV, 14th International Symposium on Locational Decisions (), Toronto and Huntsville, July 10-14, 2017.
  • EWGLA XXIII, 23rd EURO Working Group on Locational Analysis Meeting, Malaga, September 14-16, 2016.
  • EURO XXVII, 27th European Conference on Operational Research, Glasgow, July 2015. Responsible from the areas: Location, Logistics, Transportation (9 streams, 58 sessions), OR in Industry and Software for OR (6 streams, 23 sessions), OR in Natural Resources (2 streams, 6 sessions).
  • EWGLA XXI, 21st EURO Working Group on Locational Analysis Meeting, Budapest, May 2015.
  • ISOLDE XIII, 13th International Symposium on Locational Decisions, Naples and Capri, June 2014.
  • EWGLA XIX, 19th EURO Working Group on Locational Analysis Meeting, Nantes, October 2011.

Cluster Chair/Stream Organizer:

  • INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, USA, October 20-23, 2024.Cluster: Transportation Science and Logistics
  • CORS Annual Conference, London, Ontario, Canada, June 3-5, 2024. Cluster: Transportation and Logistics (11 sessions)
  • INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, USA, October 15-18, 2023. Cluster: Transportation Science and Logistics (42 sessions)
  • CORS/INFORMS International Conference, Vancouver, Canada, June 5-8, 2022. Cluster: Post-Pandemic Transportation and Logistics Systems Design
  • IFORS 2020, 22nd Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies, Seoul, South Korea, 2021. Stream: Location Problems and Supply Chain Design
  • CORS Annual Conference, 62nd Annual Canadian Operational Research Society Conference, Toronto, Canada, 2021. Cluster: Supply Chain and Manufacturing
  • INFORMS Annual Meeting, Online, 2020. Cluster: Location Analysis (5 sessions)
  • INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, USA, October 20-23, 2019. Cluster: Location Analysis (10 sessions)
  • INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, USA, November 4-7, 2018. Cluster: Location Analysis (11 sessions)
  • CORS Annual Conference, 60th Annual Canadian Operational Research Society Conference, Halifax, June 4-6, 2018. Cluster: Location Models and Analysis (1 session)
  • IFORS 2017, 21st Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies, Quebec City, July 11-17, 2017. Stream: Location (5 sessions)
  • IFORS 2014, 20th Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies, Barcelona, July 2014. Stream: Location (7 Sessions)
  • EURO/INFORMS MMXIII, 26th European Conference on Operational Research, Rome, July 2013. Streams: Location Analysis (8 sessions) and Hub Location (3 sessions)
  • EURO XXV, 25th European Conference on Operational Research, Vilnius, July 2012. Stream: Applications of Location Analysis (5 sessions)

Session Organizer:

  • INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, USA, October 15-18, 2023. Sessions: Future of Transportation Science and Logistics Panel, Emerging Topics in Logistics
  • INFORMS Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, October 16-19, 2022. Sessions: Emerging Logistics Applications, Location Modeling
  • INFORMS Annual Meeting, Online, October 24-27, 2021. Sessions: Location and Logistics
  • INFORMS Annual Meeting, Online, November 7-13, 2020. Sessions: Location and Logistics, Future of Location Analysis: Challenges and Opportunities
  • INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, USA, October 20-23, 2019. Sessions: Hub Location, Location and Logistics
  • INFORMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix, USA, November 4-7, 2018. Session: Location and Logistics
  • INFORMS Annual Meeting, Houston, USA, October 22-25, 2017. Session: Applications of Location Analysis
  • INFORMS Annual Meeting, Nashville, USA, November 13-16, 2016. Session: Hub Location
  • EURO XXVIII, 28th European Conference on Operational Research, Poznan, Poland, July 3-6, 2016. Session: Hub Location
  • INFORMS Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, USA, November 1-4, 2015. Sessions: Hub Location and Recent Advances in Location Analysis