Nader Azad

Dr. Nader Azad is an Associate Professor of Operations Management at the Faculty of Business and Information Technology, Ontario Tech University. He specializes in supply chain risk management, logistics, and stochastic optimization. His work focuses on developing strategies to mitigate disruptions and enhance resilience in supply chains using game theory and large-scale optimization models.

Education: PhD in Industrial Engineering (Amirkabir University of Technology), Postdoctoral Fellowship in Operations Management (McMaster University), MSc and BSc in Industrial Engineering (Iran University of Science & Technology).

Research interests include supply chain risk mitigation, sustainable logistics, and disruption recovery. He holds a NSERC Discovery Grant ($100,000) for modeling disruption risks in supply networks. Notable publications appear in Transportation Science, Omega, and European Journal of Operations Research.

Grants: NSERC Discovery Grant (2017–2022), FGSR Faculty Grant (2017–2018). Awards include IFER Postdoctoral Fellowship (2012–2013) and Top PhD Student (2008–2009).

Labs/Groups: Member of the Business Analytics & AI Research Group, collaborating on data-driven decision-making in operations and marketing.