Alireza Fallahi

Alireza Fallahi is an Adjunct Professor at The University of Texas at Arlington's Department of Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering, and a Data Scientist at American Airlines. He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from UT Arlington (2019), an M.S. from Bu-Ali Sina University (2008), and a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Birjand (2005).

His research focuses on optimization, statistics, and data science applied to real-world problems such as energy systems, pandemic modeling, and policy analysis. His teaching includes courses like Operations Research and Data Mining & Analytics.

Recent work includes an optimization framework balancing pandemic fatalities and community reopening (IEEE TASE 2021) and multi-agent demand response systems (IEEE Access 2019). His earlier studies involved data envelopment analysis in electricity sectors (Energy 2011, IJESM 2019).

Prior to academia, he worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at UT Arlington (2019–2020) and an intern at Vistra Energy (2018). He has no listed scientific awards.

Teaching responsibilities include multiple sections of IE 5301 (Intro to Operations Research) since 2021, alongside IE 6318 (Data Mining & Analytics) in 2023.