Under his leadership, MIT CTL launched many new educational, research, and industry/government outreach programs, leading to substantial growth. He is the founder and the Director of MIT's Master of Supply Chain Management degree. He also led the international expansion of MIT CTL by launching the Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence (SCALE) global network of academic centers of education and research. The network includes centers modeled after MIT CTL in Zaragoza, Spain; Bogota, Colombia; and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Dr. Sheffi was recognized in numerous ways in academic and industry forums and was on the cover of Purchasing Magazine and Transportation and Distribution Magazine. In 1997 he won the most prestigious recognition given by the Council of Logistics Management—the Distinguished Service Award. In 2006 he won the Aragón International Prize. In 2010 he became an honorary Doctor (Doctor Honoris Causa) of the University of Zaragoza in Spain and in 2011 he was awarded the Salzberg Medal and Award for "outstanding leadership and innovations in Supply Chain management" by the University of Syracuse. He is also a life fellow of Cambridge University's Clare Hall College.
Alexis Bateman is a Research Associate and Director of the Responsible Supply Chain Lab at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. She has over ten years of experience in sustainability in the public sector, industry, and academic settings. Her work focuses on deep tier supply chain social and environmental challenges and strategy implementation through both theoretical development and applied industrial practices. Through her research, she has been able to engage closely with industrial partners, public agencies, and non-governmental organizations like Greenpeace.
Dr. Bateman is the lead researcher and co-author on a book examining sustainable supply chains with insight from over 150 companies and hundreds of practitioners forthcoming with MIT Press. She founded and directs the MIT Responsible Supply Chain lab that organizes and builds on almost a decade of sustainable supply chain management research at MIT CTL. The lab has ongoing research projects including but not limited to: palm oil traceability, seafood risk, apparel supply chain transparency, and cross-commodity traceability analysis. Prior to joining MIT, Alexis worked with the City of Santa Ana, the Orange County Transportation Authority, and the Los Angeles River Revitalization Plan as a part of Tetra Tech. She received her Ph.D. from the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine in Environmental Planning and Management and Masters in Urban and Regional Planning.
Jonathan L.S. Byrnes is Senior Lecturer at MIT, where he has taught at the graduate level and in executive programs for over fifteen years. The courses he has taught, Case Studies in Logistics and Supply Chain Management and Integrated Account Management, together cover all strategic and operational aspects of customer-supplier relationships.
He has authored over one hundred books, articles, cases, notes, and expert submissions. He wrote a monthly column on managing profitability, called “The Bottom Line,” in Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge e-newsletter (hbswk.hbs.edu) for four years (2002-2006). Dr. Byrnes has supervised thesis work in ABB, C&S Wholesale Grocers, Cardinal Healthcare, Cisco, Dell, Flextronics, Honeywell, iRobot, Lahey Clinic, Nebraska Medical Center, Northrop Grumman, Philips, Procter & Gamble, Raytheon, and United Technologies.
Dr. Byrnes earned a DBA from Harvard University in 1980, and an MBA (Smith Prize for academic distinction and leadership) from Columbia University in 1974. He is Immediate Past President of the Harvard Alumni Association, and he served for two years as Vice President of the Harvard Club of Boston. He also served for five years on the Board of Directors of the Harvard Business School Alumni Association, and for two years on Harvard’s Committee on Shareholder Responsibility.
He is President of Jonathan Byrnes & Co., a focused consulting company that he founded in 1976. He has advised over fifty major companies and industry associations. Dr. Byrnes has served on the Advisory Boards of Objectiva Software and Autopart International, two companies that were acquired at a substantial gain, and he currently serves on the Advisory Boards of danoo, OCO, and WaveMark, all early-stage companies.
Sergio Caballero is a Research Scientist at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. He has over ten years of experience in Logistics and Supply Chain Management in industry and academia. Sergio Caballero has been part of the Megacity Logistics Lab, a pioneering initiative in the field of urban logistics, since 2013. His work focuses on multi-tier distribution network design in urban settings, last-mile delivery data analytics and high-resolution modeling. Currently, he is also part of the MIT Freight Lab, an initiative that envision better ways to design, procure, and manage large-scale freight transportation systems.
Sergio Caballero holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering with focus in Supply Chain Management from Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) in Mexico. He received his master’s degree in Manufacturing Systems from the School of Engineering and Sciences at ITESM where he was approved with Honors. His educational background includes a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Universidad San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca (USFX) in Sucre, Bolivia.
Dr. Caplice is the Executive Director for the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics. In this role, he is responsible for the planning and management of the research, education, and corporate outreach for the Center. Prior to this, he served as the Executive Director of the SCM Program. He is also the founder of the MIT FreightLab - a research initiative that focuses on the way freight transportation is designed, procured, and managed. His primary research is in all aspects of freight transportation to include combinatorial procurement auctions, robust planning, portfolio management, performance metrics, and infrastructure design.
Prior to joining MIT, Dr. Caplice held senior management positions in supply chain consulting, product development, and professional services at several companies including Logistics.com and SABRE. He is also the Chief Scientist for Chainalytics, a leading analytical supply chain consulting firm. In this role, he pioneered and leads the Chainalytics Model-Based Benchmarking Consortium (MBBC).
Caplice was recently named the Silver Family Research Fellow at MIT in 2016.
Dr. Cassa is a Lecturer at the MIT Supply Chain Management Program where he directs courses on databases, data science, and machine learning. He currently teaches “Databases and Data Analysis for Supply Chain Management” in the Fall and “Data Science for Supply Chain Management” in the Spring in the SCMr program. Along with Dr. Caplice, he also teaches SC4x in the MITx MicroMasters credential in Supply Chain Management.
He actively uses data science in his research, and holds appointments as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Division of Genetics. Dr. Cassa is also a research affiliate of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. He holds a S.B. and M.Eng from MIT and a PhD from the Harvard/MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology in Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics.
David Correll is a Research Scientist at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, where he serves as a Course Lead in the MITx MicroMaster’s in Supply Chain Management program, and contributes to transportation research at Freightlab and MIT Sustainable Supply Chains. His research focuses on innovation and optimization in supply chain design to improve performance and sustainability in agricultural logistics. Dr. Correll received his Ph.D. in Supply Chain Management from Iowa State University, where he also earned an M.S. degree in Biorenewable Resources & Technologies, as well as Sustainable Agriculture. Dr. Correll’s research has been published in academic and professional journals focusing on production economics, farming, techno-economic analysis, and industrial ecology.
Jane Dunphy directs MIT's English Language Studies Program and teaches a variety of subjects in professional and cross-cultural communication (e.g., Communication for Managers, Scientific and Technical Writing, Advanced Speaking and Critical Listening, and Communicating across Cultures).
Charles Fine focuses on technology supply chains. He examines how to assess the present—and especially the future—profitability and strategic leverage among the various sectors in the supply chain; how to design the supply chain (i.e., determine the boundaries and identity of the organization) based on strategic and logistical assessments; and how to assemble the capability to realize the chosen organizational boundaries and manage within and across those boundaries. He is author of Clockspeed: Winning Industry Control in the Age of Temporary Advantage.
Jarrod Goentzel is founder and director of the MIT Humanitarian Response Lab, which strives to make supply chains more responsive to human needs. His research focuses on supply chain, transportation, information management and decision support systems. Based in the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, Dr. Goentzel has developed graduate-level courses in supply chain finance, international operations and humanitarian logistics and has extensive experience using simulation games to develop intuition and leadership skills. He also directs the MIT Renewable Energy Delivery project.
Dr. Graves received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from the University of Rochester. He is interested in the development and application of operations research models and methods to solve problems in manufacturing systems, supply chains, and service operations. Current projects include strategic inventory positioning in a supply chain and optimizing the design and configuration of an order fulfillment center.
Dr. Graves was the Chair of the Faculty at MIT from 2001 – 2003. He has also served as Deputy Dean of MIT Sloan School of Management and Co-director of the MIT Leaders for Manufacturing program (now called Leaders for Global Operations). He is a faculty affiliate of the MIT Operations Research Center.
Dr. Graves has consulted extensively to industry and served in editorial capacities on several professional and academic journals.
Dr. Lapide has over 30 years of experience in industry, consulting, business research, and academia. Most recently he was the Director of Demand Management at the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (CTL). He also managed the launch of MIT’s Supply Chain 2020 Project and is responsible for the Strategy Alignment Workshop, one of three interactive executive education workshops created by the Center.
In 2001, Dr. Lapide was recognized by Supply Chain Technology News magazine as one of four top thought leaders in supply chain; and in 2006, he was featured in Supply Chain Management Review’s “Profiles in Leadership” column. DCVelocity magazine named him as a 2007 Logistics Rainmaker. Prior to CTL, Dr. Lapide worked at AMR Research serving variously as VP and Service Director for Supply Chain Strategies, VP of Research Operations for Business Applications, and GM for Benchmarking Services.
Previous to AMR, he was an associate partner with Accenture and also worked at Data General, Arthur D. Little, and Benchmarking Partners. He currently teaches part-time at the University of Massachusetts’ Boston Campus. He holds a Ph.D. in operations research from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, a master's in electrical engineering from MIT, and a bachelor's in electrical engineering from The Cooper Union.
Christopher Mejía Argueta is a Research Scientist at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. He develops applied research on retailing operations and food supply chains for consumer packaged goods manufacturers and retailers. His work focuses on improving the efficiency of operations activities in multiple stakeholders, understanding the evolution of retailers and its impact on high-performance logistics, commercial strategies, and reducing undesired socioeconomic problems (malnutrition, income disparity, inaccessibility) by proposing sustainable policies, business models to help low-income areas.
Dr. Chris Mejía is also the Director of the MIT Supply Chain and Global Logistics Excellence (SCALE) Network for Latin America. This initiative, conducted by the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics in the region, aims to lead impactful research and education projects for all companies, public sector and society together with Latin American top universities and the support of the Center for Latin-American Logistics Innovation (CLI). In addition, Dr. Chris Mejía serves as the Director of the MIT Graduate Certificate in Logistics & Supply Chain Management (GCLOG), an elite program from the MIT SCALE Network, geared towards outstanding graduate students from Latin America.
He holds a M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering with focus on supply chain management and optimization, and a PhD in Industrial Engineering with focus on Humanitarian Operations. Dr. Mejía got both degrees with honors at Monterrey Tech, Mexico. In 2013, Dr. Mejía was the academic leader at CLI, where he developed dozens of projects with industry and other academic partners related to disaster response, green logistics, packaging and last-mile distribution in emerging markets. Prior to joining MIT CTL, Dr. Mejía Argueta was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands, where he investigated retailing operations for emerging markets and co-edited a book about nanostores.
Eva Ponce is the Executive Director of the Supply Chain Management MITx MicroMasters Program and a Research Associate at the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics. She oversees the five online MITx courses in Supply Chain Management (CTL.SCx courses) that make up the MicroMasters Program. The courses are attended by tens of thousands of students in open enrollment. Her current research focus is the design of urban distribution models (freight deliveries) with special focus on omni-channel distribution. She also leads research initiatives on Reverse Logistics and Closed-Loop Supply Chains.
Dr. Ponce has over fifteen years of experience in teaching and research in supply chain management and quantitative models for industrial engineering. In 2008, she received her tenure as an Associate Professor in Supply Chain Management and Logistics at the School of Industrial Engineering of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM).
Dr. Ponce received her PhD in Industrial Engineering from Carlos III University of Madrid in 2002. Her dissertation received two awards with special distinction. In 2000, she was granted with a pre-doctoral research stay in the Hass School of Business, University of California, and in 2011, she was a visiting professor at MIT CTL. She has an active publication record, including journal papers, conference proceedings and refereed abstracts.
Researcher in Supply Chain Management - Jim conducts research in supply chain management, with particular focus on organizational aspects of how firms coordinate both internally within the organization, and externally with customers and suppliers.
Instructor in Supply Chain Management - Jim is instructor for the graduate course "Supply Chain Context" in MIT's Master of Engineering in Logistics academic program.
Prior to joining MIT, Jim managed manufacturing and distribution operations at Procter & Gamble, and served as a sales and market manager at General Electric Company. Jim earned his MBA in Operations and Finance from the Harvard Business School, and a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame located in the undulating hills of northern Indiana.
Pamela Siska has been with MIT's Writing and Communication Center since 1993. She is also a lecturer in Writing, Rhetoric and Professional Communication and was a contributor to The Mayfield Handbook of Technical & Scientific Writing. Pamela holds an MA in English from Boston University, where she taught writing and literature courses before coming to MIT. She has published articles on medieval, Victorian, and Romantic literature and is currently writing her D. Litt. thesis on Percy Bysshe Shelley. She is also a freelance editor.
Josué C. Velázquez Martínez is a Research Scientist at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics specialized in Logistics and Supply Chain Management in manufacturing, food, and retail industries, and has vast experience in conducting applied research on Sustainable Logistics in emerging markets. Dr. Velázquez Martínez leads two research streamlines: the MIT Sustainable Logistics Initiative, which involves research projects on green logistics sponsored by multinational companies, with the purpose of improving fuel consumption and CO2 emissions in logistics operations, and the MIT Micro Supply Chain Management Lab, which aims to improve the efficiency of small firms, and involves on-site research at approximately 200 small enterprises across Latin America in collaboration with the region’s top universities. Dr. Velázquez Martínez also serves as the Executive Director of the MIT Supply Chain Management blended program, an elite program that allows learners to combine the MITx MicroMasters credential with one+ semester at MIT. As a part of his teaching activities, Dr. Velázquez Martínez is a frequent lecturer in the Executive Education courses at the center, and he is also the lead instructor of the graduate course SCM.290 Sustainable Supply Chain Management at MIT.
Dr. Velázquez Martínez holds a MSc in Manufacturing Systems with focus on Optimization and a PhD in Industrial Engineering with focus on Sustainability in Supply Chains from Monterrey Tech, Mexico, where he was approved with honors from both programs. He also received the Doctoral Dissertation Award issued by the Mexican Logistics and Supply Chain Association as recognition for the best doctoral thesis. In 2013, Dr. Velázquez Martínez was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, and he also was part of the first class in the STVP – Faculty Fellows Program at Stanford University. Prior to joining MIT, in 2014, Dr. Velázquez Martínez was the Dean of the Engineering School at Monterrey Tech in Santa Fe.