Trilce Encarnación

Trilce Encarnación is an Assistant Professor at the Ed G. Smith College of Business, University of Missouri–St. Louis, specializing in data analytics applications for humanitarian operations and disaster response logistics.

• PhD in Transportation Engineering (2019)
• MS in Industrial and Management Engineering (2017)
• MS in Scientific Computing (2006)
• BS in Systems Engineering (2002)

Her research integrates econometric modeling and social media data analysis to optimize post-disaster operations and urban logistics. She focuses on behavioral responses to disasters and their impact on relief efforts, leveraging emerging data sources for operational improvements.

Active in transportation policy research, her work examines freight movement analysis and pricing fairness perception in transportation systems. Current projects include empirical studies on GPS data processing for commercial vehicle tracking and multi-class flow analysis in logistics networks.