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Minitrack Leaders

Louis Faugère is a research engineer at Amazon Research. He is also a research scientist at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He earned his Ph.D. in and Ph.D. candidate in Industrial Engineering, with concentration in Supply Chain Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He also received a "Diplôme d'Ingénieur" in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering from Arts et Métiers ParisTech (France) and a Master of Science in Supply Chain Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Louis is primarily interested in the research at the intersection of the Physical Internet, Supply Chain Engineering and Logistics. In particular, his research contributions focus on designing and managing complex systems with Industrial Engineering, Operations Research and Artificial Intelligence techniques. Louis' research is industry-oriented which is apparent in his work in supporting Georgia Tech’s Physical Internet Center operations as well as working closely with the panel of collaborative research projects with industry partners.

Matthieu Lauras is Full-Professor and Deputy-Head of the Industrial Engineering Center at IMT Mines Albi. He is the Pierre Fabre “Agile Supply Chain” Chair and the scientific director of various public-private joint research labs and research projects. He is research fellow at the Physical Internet Center, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA). He is affiliate professor at the School of Economics and Management, Beijing Jiaotong University (China). He is also the scientific director of the Supply Chain Management consulting and training company AGILEA (France) which he cofounded in 2009. His research works develop contributions to support collaborative networks’ stakeholders to better make their decisions in uncertain and/or disruptive environment. His research activities concern both industrial management systems and crisis management systems. He stands at the crossroads of industrial engineering; operations research; computer sciences; supply chain management; artificial intelligence; and risk management. He also has strong entrepreneurial and collaborative research experience with industry.

Samuel Fosso Wamba is Full Professor at Toulouse Business School. He earned his Ph.D. in industrial engineering at the Polytechnic School of Montreal, Canada. His current research focuses on the business value of IT, inter-organizational systems adoption and use, supply chain management, electronic commerce, blockchain, artificial intelligence in business, social media, business analytics, big data and open data. He has published papers in top journals including Academy of Management Journal, European Journal of Information Systems, Journal of Cleaner Production, Information Systems Frontiers, International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Information Management, International Journal of Logistics Management, International Journal of Production Research, Journal of Business Research, Technology Forecasting and Social Change, Production Planning & Control, and Business Process Management Journal. Prof Fosso Wamba is organizing special issues on IT-related topics for leading international journals. He won the best paper award of The Academy of Management Journal in 2017 and the papers of the year 2017 of The Electronic Markets: The International Journal on Networked Business. He is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Logistics Management information and The Electronic Markets: The International Journal on Networked Business. He serves on the editorial board of five international journals. Prof Fosso Wamba is CompTIA RFID+ Certified Professional, Academic Co-Founder of RFID Academia. He is the Coordinator of the newly created Artificial Intelligence & Business Analytics Cluster of Toulouse Business School, France.

Co-Chairs

Matthieu Lauras
(Primary Contact)
 
Professor
IMT Mines Albi Industrial Engineering Center Campus Jarlard – Route de Teillet 81000 Albi, France
Email: matthieu.lauras@mines-albi.fr

 

Louis Faugère 
Research Scientist
Amazon and Georgia Institute of Technology H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering 755 Ferst Drive, NW, Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
Email: louis.faugere@gatech.edu

 

Samuel Fosso Wamba 
Professor
Toulouse Business School Information, Operations and Decision Sciences Department 20 Boulevard Lascrosses 31000, Toulouse, France
Email: s.fosso-wamba@tbs-education.fr