Vita

My life in one page

Academic Rank: Professor

Current Address:
David Simchi-Levi
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave. Rm. 1-171
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA
Tel: (617) 253-6160
Email:dslevi@mit.edu
Date Current: 1/3/2006

Degrees

• Ph.D. in Operations Research, Faculty of Management, Tel-Aviv University, July, 1987.
• M.Sc. in Operations Research, Faculty of Management, Tel-Aviv University, June, 1984.
• B.Sc. in Aeronautical Engineering, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, February, 1978.

Ph.D. THESIS: The Multistop Location Problem, Tel-Aviv University

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

• Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Engineering Systems Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000-present.



• Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, 1997-2000.



• Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University, 1993-1997.



• Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University, 1991-1994.



• Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University, 1987-1991.



• Lecturer I, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University, 1986-1987.



• Lecturer, Principles of Statistics, Faculty of Management, Tel-Aviv University, 1984-1985.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

• Editor-in-Chief, Operations Research, 2006-present.



• Former Senior Editor, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM), 2003-2005



• Former Editor-in-Chief, Naval Research Logistics, 2003-2005.



• Former Department Editor for IIE Transactions, 2001-2005.



• Former Transportation Area Editor for Operations Research, 1995- 1999.



• Associate Editor for Management Science, Networks, and Telecommunications Systems



• Former Associate Editor for Operations Research, Transportation Science, Naval Research Logistics and IIE Transactions.



• Co-Editor for a Focused Issue of Transportation Science on Transportation/Manufacturing Interfaces, 1995-1996.



• Invited Associated Editor for a Special Issue of IIE Transactions on Supply Chain Management, 1995-1996.



• Co-chair INFORMS Academic-Practitioner Interface Committee, 2002-present.



• Member of the INFORMS Nicholson Committee, 2002, 2003.



• Chairman of the INFORMS George Dantzig�s Award Committee, 1997.



• Chairman of the INFORMS George Dantzig�s Award Committee, 1996.



• Member of the ORSA/TIMS George Dantzig�s Award Committee, 1995.



• Chairman for the TIMS Dissertation Prize Committee on Location Related Research, 1992.



• Referee for: Annals of Operations Research; Discrete Applied Mathematics; Journal of Operations Research; IIE Transactions; IEEE Transactions on Computers; J. Assoc. Comput. Mach.; J. Algorithms; Management Science; Mathematical Programming; Operations Research; Operations Research Letters; ORSA Computing; Networks; SIAM J. on Computing; Transportation Science.

SCIENTIFIC AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES:

• INFORMS, Institute of Operations Research and the Management Sciences
  



• The Institute of Industrial Engineering
  



• The Mathematical Programming Society
  



• The Society of Manufacturing Engineering
  



• The Council of Logistics Management
  

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

• M.Sc. degree awarded with Honors (Magna Cum Laude).



• The paper ``Minisum and Minmax Location of a Traveling Salesman'' was awarded the Oded Levin prize for the best Operations Research paper in Israel in 1985.



• School of Industrial Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University, Among the eight top finalists for the Outstanding Instructor Award, 1990-1991.



• Awarded the Alon Fellowship given by the Council of Higher Education, Israel, to outstanding young scientists, 1993-1996 (declined).



• A Computerized System for School Bus Routing in New York City developed together with the NYC Board of Education/Office of pupil transportation, the Fund for the City of NY and Julien Bramel won the first place prize in the government/public sector category of the Windows World Open Competition, Atlanta May 1994. The competition was sponsored by, among others, Microsoft, Borland, AT\&T, the Computer World magazine and the Windows World Conference.



• The paper ``Probabilistic Analysis of a Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows'' co-authored with J. Bramel and C. L. Li was awarded the 1994 Jacob Wolfowitz Prize given by the American Journal of Mathematical and Management Sciences.



• Appointed the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Industrial Engineering/Management Science, Northwestern University, effective September 1, 2000 through August 31, 2010(declined due to a move to MIT).



• The book "Designing and Managing the Supply Chain: Concepts, Strategies and Case-Studies" co-authored with P. Kaminsky and E. Smichi-Levi was awarded the Outstanding IIE Publication Prize given in 2000 by the Institute of Industrial Engineers



• The book "Designing and Managing the Supply Chain: Concepts, Strategies and Case-Studies" won the Book-of-the-Year Award, and Outstanding IIE Publication Award given in 2000 by the Institute of Industrial Engineers.



• The book "Designing and Managing the Supply Chain: Concepts, Strategies and Case-Studies" co-authored with P. Kaminsky and E. Smichi-Levi was awarded the Outstanding First Edition of the Year Prize given in 2000 by the McGraw-Hill/Irwin



• The book "Designing and Managing the Supply Chain: Concepts, Strategies and Case-Studies" co-authored with P. Kaminsky and E. Smichi-Levi was
  • Awarded the Outstanding IIE Publication Prize and the IIE Joint Publishers Book-of-the-Year Prize given in 2000 by the Institute of Industrial Engineers;
  • Awarded the Outstanding First Edition of the Year Prize given in 2000 by McGraw-Hill/Irwin; and
  • Selected by Business 2.0, December 2001 issue, as the best source for slashing time and costs and increasing productivity in the supply chain.
  
  
• INFORMS Fellow Award, 2006 in recognition of outstanding contributions, achievements and service that have advanced the profession of operations research and the management sciences.



• The paper �Supply Chain Coordination and Influenza Vaccination,� co-authored with Stephen E. Chick and Hamed Mamani was awarded the Pierskalla Best Paper Award, 2006. The Pierskalla Award recognizes research excellence in the field of health care management science.
   

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Design of distribution/service systems
• Integrating inventory control and transportation costs
• Inventory theory
• Location theory
• Production systems: design and control
• Scheduling and sequencing
• Supply-Chain Management
• Telecommunications networks: design and control
• Vehicle routing problems

INVITED TALKS, ACADEMIA

Columbia University (5/86); M.I.T. (2/87); Northwestern University (4/88); University of Bonn (6/88); Rutgers University (12/88); RPI (3/89); The University of Maryland (10/89); Yale University (4/89); University of Montreal (1/91); M.I.T. (3/91); University of Rochester (4/91); Stanford University (2/92); The University of British Columbia (2/92); Georgia Tech. (4/92); NYU (4/92); Wharton School (5/92); Princeton (12/92); University of Toronto (1/93); Northwestern University (1/93); Berkeley (3/93); Erasmus University (6/93); University of Eindhoven (6/93); University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (10/93); University of Texas, Austin (12/93); University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2/94); University of Chicago (11/94); Tel-Aviv University (11/95); Technion Israel Institute of Technology (11/95); Washington University, St. Louis (10/96); University of Singapore (12/96); M.I.T. (5/97); University of Texas A&M (3/98); University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (12/98); The University of Texas at Dallas (12/98); Wharton School (2/99); Lehigh University (2/99); MIT (4/99); Boston University (4/99); MIT (9/99); Georgia Tech (10/99); New Jersey Institute of Technology, National Center for Transportation and Industrial Productivity (12/99); University of Toronto (12/99); University of Pittsburgh (3/00); MIT (11/00); University of Southern California (1/01); University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (4/01); University of Florida, Gainesville (2/02); Chinese University of Hong Kong (7/02); Cornell University (11/02); Tel-Aviv University (12/02); Technion Israel Institute of Technology (12/02); North Carolina State University (3/03); MIT (10/03); Hong Kong Polytechnic University (11/03); Supply Chain Thought Leaders, Dartmouth (07/04); Rutgers University (08/04); INSEAD, France (12/04); University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (3/05); University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (3/05); Penn State University (4/05); Chinese Academy of Sciences (8/05); MIT (9/05); University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign (11/05); Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (11/05).

INVITED TALKS, INDUSTRY

GTE Laboratories (5/87); AT&T Bell Laboratories (6/89); GTE Laboratories (1/92); Senn-Delaney, A Unit of Arthur Andersen LLP (8/95); Krueger International (9/95); American President Business Logistics Services (11/95); LifeSource Blood Services (1/96); Philips Laboratories (3/96); Federal Express (4/96); i2 Technologies (8/96); Schneider Logistics (3/97); Andersen Consulting and Ryder Integrated Logistics Executives (2/98); Council of Logistics Management (3/98); General Motors (5/98); MIT Executive Program on Logistics and Supply Chain Management (7/98); Chicago INFORMS Chapter at United Airline (9/98); Allison Transmission (9/98); TruServ (3/99); MIT Executive Program on Logistics and Supply Chain Management (7/99); Warner-Lambert Company (8/99); TruServ (9/99); Amplats, World Leader in Platinum, South Africa (11/99); The Project Management Institute, St. Louis Chapter (2/00); General Motors (2/00); Sintec, Mexico City (5/00); Procter and Gamble (1/01); Cabot Industrial (1/01); EU/US Forum on Intermodal Freight Transport, Genoa Italy (4/01); The Economist Conference, New York (10/01); SAP, SAPPHIRE, Orlando (6/02); CFO workshop in NYC (6/02); SAP, SAPPHIRE Lisobon Portugal (9/02); Lego (1/03); Netcentricity Conference (sponsored by Dell with Michael Dell the keynote speaker) (4/03); International Senior Entrepreneurial Leadership Program, U. of St. Gallen, Switzerland (6/03); Carolina Crescent Coalition�s Supply Chain Management Task Force (9/03); Keynote at SAP Logistics and Supply Chain Management 2004 (2/04); Exostar Supply Chain Management Summit Meeting (2/04); Start Magazine Conference (2/04); Bose Corporation (06/04); Xerox (07/04); 3M (07/04); Dell Corporation (08/04); Keynote at ASUG, SAP user group meeting (10/04); SAP Insider on Logistics and Supply Chain Management (02/05); University of Alabama, Huntsville, Executive Program (5/05); Nokia, Finland (10/05); Supply Chain Management Forum V in Helsinki, Finland (10/05); GS1 Peru (11/05); Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Executive Program (11/05).

INDUSTRY/ACADEMIA COLLABORATION:

• Co-Director (with Charlie Fine) of the MIT Forum on Supply Chain Innovation. This is
  an industry/academia collaboration dedicated to advancing and disseminating the best supply chain concepts, strategies and practices. 25 companies and organizations involved. Examples include SAP, Xerox, Michelin, US Department of Defense, Intel, Verizon, General Motors, Deloitte Research, Capgemini. Established in January 2002 and provides significant research funding through membership fee.
   
• Director of the Supply Chain Initiative at Northwestern University which is an industry/academia collaboration dedicated to advancing and disseminating the best supply chain concepts, strategies and practices. Companies involved include Danzas, DSC Logistics, DuPont, General Motors, International Papers, Roche Pharmaceuticals, SAP America, Schneider National and Sears. Established by Professor Simchi-Levi, January 1999.

SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT:

• Founded LogicTools, which provides software solutions and professional services for supply chain planning. Products include LogicNet, LogicNet Plus, LogicChain and Inventory Analyst. These solutions have been used widely to reduce cost and improve service level in large-scale supply chains. Clients include Colgate-Palmolive, ConAgra, Del Monte, Kraft Foods, Ryder, SC Johnson, Shell, UPS, US Postal Service, Walgreens, and Weyehaeuser to name a few.
   
• ”Decision Support System for Production Scheduling” developed for managing complex manufacturing processes. The system includes a large database, a schedule generation module and a user interface module. Written in Borland C++ for IBM PC and compatibles and runs under Windows. Developed jointly with P. Kaminsky.
   
• ”A Computerized Version of the Beer Game” developed as a course software tool to demon¬strate the value of information in the supply chain. Written in Visual C++ for IBM PC and compatibles and runs under Windows. Developed jointly with P. Kaminsky.



• "School Bus Routing and Scheduling" (developed with others) for New York City.
   
• ”Facility Layout and Planning” developed as a course software tool. Written in Turbo C for IBM PC and compatibles. Includes pop-up menus, full-screen edit function and graphics print-out option. Developed jointly with E. Simchi-Levi.
   

BOOKS:

For information about my books click here.

PUBLICATIONS:

For a list of publications click here.

Funding:

For information about my funding click here.

Ph.D. STUDENTS:

For a list of Ph.D. students click here.

POST DOCTORAL FELLOW:

For the name of my post doctoral fellow click here.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:

Numerous presentations at conferences of professional societies including
INFORMS joint National Meeting
SIAM Conference on Optimization
Mathematical Programming
and Israeli ORSIS meetings.

EXECUTIVE PROGRAMS:

• A Two-Day program on Designing and Managing the Supply Chain given at the James L. Allen Center for executive education, Northwestern University, May 9-10, 1995 (with Y. Bassok).



• A One-Day program on Designing and Managing the Supply Chain given at the Reca¬nati School of Management, Tel-Aviv University, June 27, 1995 (with Y. Bassok).



• A Two-Day program on Designing and Managing the Supply Chain given at the James L. Allen Center for executive education, Northwestern University, November 11-12, 1996 (with Y. Bassok)



• A Two-Day program on Designing and Managing the Supply Chain given at the James L. Allen Center for executive education, Northwestern University, June 2-3, 1997 (with Y. Bassok).



• A Two-Day program on Designing and Managing the Supply Chain given at the James L. Allen Center for executive education, Northwestern University, November 18-19, 1997 (with industry people).



• A Two-Day program on Designing and Managing the Supply Chain given at the James L. Allen Center for executive education, Northwestern University, June 8-9, 1998 (with industry people).



• A Two-Day program on Designing and Managing the Supply Chain given at the James L. Allen Center for executive education, Northwestern University, October 26-27, 1998 (with industry people).



• A Three-Day program on Global Supply Chain Management given at the James L. Allen Center for executive education, Northwestern University, May 12-14, 1999 (with Sunil Chopra and industry people).



• A Three-Day program on Global Supply Chain Management given at the James L. Allen Center for executive education, Northwestern University, March 1-3, 2000 (with Ravi Anupindi, Sunil Chopra and Myron Feinstein).



• A Three-Day program on Global Supply Chain Management given at the James L. Allen Center for executive education, Northwestern University, August 10-12, 2000 (with Ravi Anupindi, Sunil Chopra and Myron Feinstein).



• A Three-Day program on Internet Based Supply Chain Strategies given at the MIT Center for Transportation, January 31 to February 2, 2001 (with Yossi Sheffi).



• A Two-Day program on Supply Chain Management in the Internet Age given 2-3 times a year at MIT/Sloan Executive Education Program (with Charlie Fine).
  

COURSES TAUGHT:

Columbia U., IEOR E6402x Facilities Planning and Physical Distribution, Fall 1986
Columbia U., IEOR E4000x Production Management, Fall 1986
Columbia U., IEOR E3402y Production-Inventory Planning and Control, Spring 1987
Columbia U., IEOR E3406y Facilities Layout and Planning, Spring 1987
Columbia U., IEOR E4000x Production Management, Fall 1987
Columbia U., IEOR E6402x Facilities Planning and Physical Distribution, Fall 1987
Columbia U., IEOR E3402y Production-Inventory Planning and Control, Spring 1988
Columbia U., IEOR E3406y Facilities Layout and Planning, Spring 1988
Columbia U., IEOR E6403x Routing, Fall 1988
Columbia U., IEOR E6402x Facilities Planning and Physical Distribution, Fall 1988
Columbia U., IEOR E4000y Production Management, Spring 1989
Columbia U., IEOR E3406y Facilities Layout and Planning, Spring 1989
Columbia U., IEOR E6402x Facilities Planning and Physical Distribution, Fall 1989
Columbia U., IEOR E6403x Routing, Fall 1989
Columbia U., IEOR E4000y Production Management, Spring 1990
Columbia U., IEOR E3406y Facilities Layout and Planning, Spring 1990
Columbia U., IEOR E9901x Operations Research Seminar, Fall 1990
Columbia U., IEOR E6402x Facilities Planning and Physical Distribution, Fall 1990
Columbia U., IEOR E6403x Routing, Fall 1990
Columbia U., IEOR E4000y Production Management, Spring 1991
Columbia U., IEOR E3406y Facilities Layout and Planning, Spring 1991
Columbia U., IEOR E6403x Routing, Fall 1991
Columbia U., IEOR E9901x Operations Research Seminar, Fall 1991
Columbia U., IEOR E4000y Production Management, Spring 1992
Columbia U., IEOR E3406y Facilities Layout and Planning, Spring 1992
Columbia U., IEOR E4000x Production Management, Fall 1992
Columbia U., IEOR E4406x Facilities Layout and Planning, Fall 1992
Columbia U., IEOR E6403y Routing, Spring 1993
Columbia U., IEOR E4404y Simulation, Spring 1993
Northwestern U., IE C35 Systems Simulation, Fall 1993
Northwestern U., IE C35 Systems Simulation, Winter 1993
Northwestern U., IE D80 Logistics: Production and Economics, Winter 1993
Northwestern U., IE E20 Operations Research Seminar, Winter 1993
Northwestern U., IE D07 Decision Models, Fall 1994
Northwestern U., IE D80-1 Production and Economics, Winter 1995
Northwestern U., IE D82 Production Scheduling, Winter 1995
Northwestern U., IE C35 Systems Simulation, Winter 1995
Northwestern U., IE D90 Operations Research Seminar, Winter 1996
Northwestern U., IE D80-1 Production and Economics, Winter 1996
Northwestern U., IE C35 Systems Simulation, Winter 1996
Northwestern U., IE D97 Supply Chain Management, Spring 1996
Northwestern U., IE D90 Logistics Management, Summer 1996
Northwestern U., IE D82 Production Scheduling, Winter 1997
Northwestern U., IE D80-1 Production and Economics, Winter 1997
Northwestern U., IE C35 Systems Simulation, Spring 1997
Northwestern U., IE D97 Supply Chain Management, Spring 1997
Northwestern U., IE D90 Logistics Management, Summer 1997
Northwestern U., IE D84 Inventory and Distribution Systems, Winter 1998
Northwestern U., IE D80-1 Production and Economics, Winter 1998
Northwestern U., IE C35 Systems Simulation, Spring 1998
Northwestern U., IE D97 Supply Chain Management, Spring 1998
Northwestern U., IE D90 Logistics Management, Summer 1998
Northwestern U., IE C28 Location Theory, Winter 1999
Northwestern U., IE C35 Systems Simulation, Spring 1999
Northwestern U., IE D97 Supply Chain Management, Spring 1999
Northwestern U., IE D90 Logistics Management, Summer 1999
Northwestern U., IE D80-1 Production and Economics, Winter 2000
Northwestern U., IE C35 Systems Simulation, Spring 2000
Northwestern U., IE D97 Supply Chain Management, Spring 2000
Northwestern U., IE D90 Logistics Management, Summer 2000
MIT, 1.153/ESD.76 Systems Simulation, Spring 2001
MIT, 1.269 Advanced Logistics and Supply Chain Strategies, Spring 2001
MIT, 1.271 Research Seminar in Transportation, Fall 2001
MIT, 1.270/ESD.273 Distribution Management, Fall 2001
MIT, 1.269 Advanced Logistics and Supply Chain Strategies, Spring 2002
MIT, 1.270/ESD.273 Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Fall 2002
MIT, 1.269 Advanced Logistics and Supply Chain Strategies, Spring 2003
MIT, 1.270/ESD.273 Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Fall 2003
MIT, ESD.762 Systems Optimization, Spring 2004
MIT, 1.269 Advanced Logistics and Supply Chain Strategies, Spring 2004
MIT, 1.270/ESD.273 Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Fall 2004
MIT, ESD.763 Operations Management, Summer 2004

SERVICE:

• Administrator, CIM Laboratory, School of Engineering, Columbia U., 1987-1993



• Library Committee, School of Engineering, Columbia U., 1987-1993



• Admission Committee, School of Engineering, Columbia U., 1987-1993



• Committee on Instruction, School of Engineering, Columbia U., 1990-1992



• Graduate Committee, Department of IE/MS, Northwestern U., 1994-2000



• Chairman, Undergraduate Manufacturing Academic Committee, School of Engineering, Northwestern U., 1994-2000



• Promotion and Tenure Committee, School of Engineering, Northwestern U., 1997-2000



• Chairman, IE Search Committee, 1998-1999



• Director of the Supply Chain Initiative at Northwestern University, 1999-2000



• Member of the Optimization Technology Center, a joint enterprise of Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University, 1996-2000



• Member of the MIT Committee on Operations Research, 2000-2003



• Civil Engineering Undergraduate Education Committee 2000-2002



• Member of the MIT Master of Science in Transportation (MST) Review Committee, 2000-2001



• Head, Engineering Systems Group, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2002-2003



• Co-Director, LFN-SDM Partnership at MIT.



• Head, CEE/Systems PhD Program, 2003-present