Biography:

Dr. Amir Masoumi is an Associate Professor at the School of Businesss at Manhattan College in NYC. He received his Ph.D. in Business Administration with a major in Management Science and a minor in Industrial Engineering at the Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst, in May 2013, an M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Azad University, Science and Research Campus, Tehran, Iran in 2006, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Isfahan University of Technology, Iran in 2003.

His research interests include: perishable product supply chain networks and applications to healthcare and disaster relief.

Amir was the President of the UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter for 2008-2009. He received the 2009, 2010, and 2011 Awards for Exceptional Service to the student chapter. From 2009-2010, Amir was the Coordinator of the Speaker Series.

He received the Judith B. Liebman Award from INFORMS at the INFORMS Meeting in Minneapolis in 2013.

Selected Publications:

A multiperiod competitive supply chain framework with environmental policies and investments in sustainable operations
Min Yu, Jose M.Cruz, Dong Li, Amir H. Masoumi, European Journal of Operational Research 300(1): (2022), pp 112-123.

Mergers and Acquisitions in Blood Banking Systems: A Supply Chain Network Approach
Amir H. Masoumi, Min Yu, and Anna Nagurney, International Journal of Production Economics 193: (2017), pp 406-421.

An Integrated Disaster Relief Supply Chain Network Model with Time Targets and Demand Uncertainty
Anna Nagurney, Amir H. Masoumi, and Min Yu, in Regional Science Matters: Studies Dedicated to Walter Isard, P. Nijkamp, A. Rose, and K. Kourtit, Editors, Springer International Publishing Switzerland (2015) pp 287-318.

Networks Against Time: Supply Chain Analytics for Perishable Products
Springer Briefs in Optimization, Springer, NY, 2013 (with Anna Nagurney, Min Yu, and Ladimer S. Nagurney).

Supply Chain Network Operations Management of a Blood Banking System with Cost and Risk Minimization
Anna Nagurney, Amir H. Masoumi, and Min Yu, Computational Management Science 9(2): (2012) pp 205-231.

A Supply Chain Generalized Network Oligopoly Model for Pharmaceuticals Under Brand Differentiation and Perishability
Amir H. Masoumi, Min Yu, and Anna Nagurney, Transportation Research E 48: (2012) pp 762-780.

Supply Chain Network Design of a Sustainable Blood Banking System
Anna Nagurney and Amir H. Masoumi, in Sustainable Supply Chains: Models, Methods and Public Policy Implications (2012) T. Boone, V. Jayaraman, and R. Ganeshan, Editors, Springer, London, England, pp 49-72.

The Virtual Center for Supernetworks

UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter