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Faculty of Management

M. Ali Ãœ±ô°ìü

Professor; Director, Centre for Research in Sustainable Supply Chain Analytics

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Faculty of Management , Department of Industrial Engineering , School for Resource and Environmental Studies

Email: ulku@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-4098
Fax: 902-494-1107
Mailing Address: 
Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building
6100 University Avenue, Room 4062
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4R2
 

Education

  • PhD (Waterloo), Management Sciences
  • MSc (Çukurova), Operations Research
  • BSc (Bilkent), Industrial Engineering

Research Interests

M. Ali Ãœ±ô°ìü, Ph.D., P.Eng., is the Director of the . Dr. Ãœ±ô°ìü's research includes studies in circular and sustainable supply chain and (humanitarian) logistics systems, analysis of manufacturing/retailing and service operations, green marketing and optimal contract designs, analytical modelling of sustainable consumption and development, and interdisciplinary research on big data and societal/environmental problems. Ali believes in the "science and teaching of better" and is an avid supporter of student-led research.

Selected Awards and Honours

  • A. Gordon Archibald Teaching Excellence Award, 2023
  • Global Triple E Awardee (Education Champion), 2023
  • Research Star Award, Faculty of Management, 2021
  • Distinguished Professor Award, IEOM Society, 2019
  • Program Chair, Canadian Operational Research Society 60th Annual Conference, 2018
  • Best Paper Award in the Service Science Cluster (runner up), INFORMS Conference, 2013

Selected Recent Publications

  • Sustainable supply chain risk management in a climate-changed world: Review of extant literature, trend analysis, and guiding framework for future research. Yun, N. Y., & Ãœ±ô°ìü, M. A. Sustainability, 15(17), 13199  (2023)
  • On the value of shipment consolidation and machine learning techniques for the optimal design of a multimodal logistics network. Oguntola, I. O., Ãœ±ô°ìü, M. A., Saif, A., & Engau, A. INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research, 1-52  (2023)
  • Freight delivery in a physical internet supply chain: An applied optimisation model with peddling and shipment consolidation. Chadha, S. S., Ãœ±ô°ìü, M. A., & Venkatadri, U. International Journal of Production Research, 60(16), 4995-5011 (2022)
  • A game-theoretic analysis of the impact of government subsidy on optimal product greening and pricing decisions in a duopolistic market. Ling, Y., Xu, J., & Ãœ±ô°ìü, M. A. Journal of Cleaner Production 338, 130028  (2022)
  • Reconciling conflict of interests in a green retailing channel with green sales effort. Heydari, J., Bineshpour, P., Walther, G., & Ãœ±ô°ìü, M. A. Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services 64, 102752  (2022)

Current Teaching

  • COMM 4520 - Supply Chain Planning & Execution
  • COMM 3507 - Logistics & Supply Chain Management
  • COMM 3508 - Transport Modes & Policy
  • BUSI 5551 - Operations Management