People
Principal Investigator (PI)
Kailai Wang
Assistant Professor, Supply Chain and Logistics Technology Program
Director, Interdisciplinary Transportation and Society Laboratory (ITS Lab)
Associate Director, USDOT Tier-1 UTC Transportation Cybersecurity Center for Advanced Research and Education (CYBER-CARE)
Affiliated Faculty, Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute, C. T. Bauer College of Business
Affiliated Faculty, Energy Transition Institute, Division of Energy and Innovation
Current PhD Students
Yuhao Wang
B.S., Remote Sensing Science and Technology, Shandong University of Science and Technology, China, 2014
M.S., Applied GIS & Remote Sensing, University of Southampton, UK, 2016
Degree Program: PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering
Yixuan Huang
B.S., Economics (Minor: Mathematics), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (UMN), US, 2021
M.S., Economic, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), US, 2022
Degree Program: PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering
Chuyue Wang
Bachelor of Civil Engineering (Major: Urban and Rural Planning), Beijing University of Technology, China, 2023
Master of Urban Spatial Science, University College London, UK, 2024
Degree Program: PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering
Jinghang Gao
B.M.S., Land Resources Management, Zhejiang University, China, 2023
M.Phil., Intelligent Transportation, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China, 2025
Degree Program: PhD in Industrial and Systems Engineering
Graduate Assistants
Nguyen Hoang Ngoc Le
B.Eng., Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Vietnam National University - HCMC International University, Vietnam, 2020
Degree program: MS in Supply Chain and Logistics Technology
Alumni
Yeswanth Reddy Yannam
Degree Program: MS in Supply Chain and Logistics Technology
Behnam Sabzi
B.S., Industrial Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, 2015
M.S., Finance, Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran, 2017
Degree Program: PhD in Industrial Engineering
Rohith Reddy Depa
Degree Program: MS in Computer Science
Suhaib Kaissi
Degree Program: MS in Supply Chain and Logistics Technology
Hima Naga Sai Srikar Bolisetty
Degree Program: MS in Supply Chain and Logistics Technology
Major Award: Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award in the Cullen College of Engineering for 2023-2024 (three recipients in total)
Bethel Mbakaogu
Degree Program: MS in Supply Chain and Logistics Technology
Major Award: Graduate Student Excellence in the Technology Division at the Cullen College of Engineering for 2022-2023 (one recipient only)
Raja Gopal Pamula
Degree Program: MS in Supply Chain and Logistics Technology
Manoj M Paliwal
Aakash Gireesh
Lakshmi Narasimha Sai
Narne Noel George Varghese