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Ali Shirzadeh

Lecturer

Operations & Information Management

Education

PhD Industrial Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, 2014
MSc Industrial Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, 2008
BSc Industrial Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, 2002

Professional Experience

Management Consultant, Polymershapes, 2019
Management Consultant and Head of Project Management Office, Modiran 21, 2015-2019
Business Analysis Manager, Nilram Mana, 2014-2015
Business Analyst and Software Designer, Nomatec, 2013-2014
Business Analysis Manager, Iran-Khodro Card Company, 2006-2009

Professional Certification

Business Processes Configuration using SAP S/4 HANA
Data Analysis with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)

Academic Appointments

Lecturer, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2022-Present
Adjunct Lecturer of Business, Northeastern University, 2021-2022
Adjunct Lecturer of Business, Babson College, 2022
Visiting Scholar of Business, University of Rhode Island, 2021-2022
Visiting Scholar of Management, University of Massachusetts Boston, 2019-2021
Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering, Islamic Azad University, 2015-2019
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering, Islamic Azad University, 2013-2014
Visiting Scholar of Industrial and Systems Engineering, North Carolina State University, 2012

Recent Honors / Awards

Session Chair and Invited Keynote Speaker, 838th International Conference on Science, Technology, Engineering and Management (ICSTEM), Boston, 2021
Outstanding Ph.D. Graduate Award, Sharif University of Technology, 2014
Best Paper Award, 9th International Industrial Engineering Conference, Tehran, 2013

Teaching Interests

General
  • Business Intelligence and Analytics
  • Business Processes and Enterprise Systems
  • Quantitative Modeling and Optimization
  • Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes

Research Interests

Project Scheduling and Management
Supply Chain Management
Marketing Strategy
Product Pricing and Return
Mathematical Modeling and Optimization

Selected Publications

Shirzadeh, A., Elahi, E., Fathi, M., Khakifirooz, M., “Profit and Social Impact of Return Leniency: a Numerical Study”, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Vol. 169, 2022, 108-149.

Shirzadeh, A., Elahi, E., Ebrahimpour, M., “Product Salvage Values to Reform Return Management Strategies”, Reverse Logistics Magazine, Edition 119, May 2022.

Shirzadeh, A., Elahi, E., “Product Return Management Strategies”, Reverse Logistics Magazine, Edition 117, Jan 2022.

Shirzadeh, A., Elahi, E., “Product Information Strategies to Soothe E-Commerce Returns”, Reverse Logistics Magazine, Edition 114, 15(3), Jun 2021.

Shirzadeh, A., “Wisely Breaking the Industrial Dam”, Small Business Today Magazine, Feb-Mar 2021.

Shirzadeh, A., Shadrokh, Sh., Khakifirooz, M., Fathi, M., Pardalos, P. M., A hybrid Genetic and Lagrangian relaxation algorithm for Resource-Constrained Project Scheduling under Nonrenewable Resources, Applied Soft Computing, vol. 94, Sep 2020, 106482.

Shirzadeh, A., Resource Tardiness Weighted Cost Minimization in Project Scheduling, Advances in Operations Research, Volume 2017 (2017), Article ID 1308704, 11 pages.

Shirzadeh, A., Shadrokh, Sh., A Branch and Cut Algorithm for Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem subject to Nonrenewable Resources with Prescheduled Procurement, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 2014, doi. 10.1007/s13369-014-1319-9.

Shirzadeh, A., Shadrokh, Sh., Fathi, Y., Branch and Bound Algorithms for Resource Constrained Project Scheduling Problem Subject to Nonrenewable Resources with Prescheduled Procurement, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 634649, 15 pages.

Khalilzadeh, M., Kianfar, F., Shirzadeh, A., Shadrokh, Sh., Ranjbar, M., A Modified PSO Algorithm for Minimizing the Total Cost of Resources in MRCPSP, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 365697, 18 pages.