Mark S. Daskin

About

Professor Mark S. Daskin is a Clyde W. Johnson Collegiate Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan's Department of Industrial & Operations Engineering. He received his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from MIT, completed a certificate of post-graduate study in engineering at Cambridge University, and earned his Ph.D. from MIT. His research focuses on the application of operations research techniques to problems in transportation, supply chain management, facility location modeling, and healthcare. He has served as the editor-in-chief of both Transportation Science and IIE Transactions, was the president of INFORMS in 2006, and has held leadership roles including chair of the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at Northwestern University. Professor Daskin is a fellow of both INFORMS and the Institute of Industrial Engineers, and has received numerous awards for his service and research contributions, including the Fred C. Crane Award for Distinguished Service and the Institute’s Technical Innovation Award. His work encompasses analytics, data analytics applications, healthcare operations, quality improvement, manufacturing, service systems, transportation, urban sustainability, and resilience, with a particular emphasis on optimization, stochastic systems, and supply chain network design.

Research topics

• Computer science
• Mathematical optimization
• Operations research
• Business
• Mathematics

Selected publications

• An integer L-shaped algorithm for the integrated location and network restoration problem in disaster relief

  Transportation Research Part B Methodological · 2021-02-01 · 54 citations

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• Pharmaceutical supply chain reliability and effects on drug shortages

  Computers & Industrial Engineering · 2022-05-27 · 49 citations

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• Mitigation strategies against supply disruption risk: a case study at the Ford Motor Company

  International Journal of Production Research · 2021-09-23 · 29 citations

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  Supply chains are exposed to different risks, which can be mitigated by various strategies based on the characteristics and needs of companies. In collaboration with Ford, we develop a decision support framework to choose the best mitigation strategy against supply disruption risk, especially for companies operating with a small supplier base and low inventory levels. Our framework is based on a multistage stochastic programming model which incorporates a variety of plausible strategies, includi…

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• Closed-form (R,S) inventory policies for perishable inventory systems with supply chain disruptions

  INFOR Information Systems and Operational Research · 2023-07-03 · 6 citations

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  Hospital pharmacy managers make inventory decisions for thousands of different perishable drugs. Commonly, these managers do not have the resources to implement advanced mathematical models. Closed-form solutions are attractive because they provide the inventory policy quickly and are easy to implement. However, when deriving these solutions, one must consider that pharmaceutical supply chains experience disruptions. We first derive closed-form solutions for a non-perishable lost-sales (R,S) per…

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• The benefits (or detriments) of adapting to demand disruptions in a hospital pharmacy with supply chain disruptions

  Health Care Management Science · 2024-09-24 · 5 citations

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Recent grants

• Collaborative Research: Optimizing the Supply Chain for Cost and Carbon Footprint

  NSF · $187k · 2010–2013

• Risk Management in Supply Chain Design and Operations

  NSF · $350k · 2005–2009

Frequent coauthors

• Kayse Lee Maass

  Northeastern University

  10 shared

• Lawrence Snyder

  Lehigh University

  10 shared

• Sanjay Mehrotra

  9 shared

• Amy M. Cohn

  University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

  8 shared

• Susan Hesse Owen

  General Motors (Poland)

  8 shared

• Ali Haghani

  University of Maryland, College Park

  8 shared

• Achal Bassamboo

  7 shared

• F. Jacob Seagull

  University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

  7 shared

Education

• PhD, Civil Engineering

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  1978

• Certificate of Post-Graduate Study in Engineering, Engineering

  University of Cambridge

  1975

• BSCE, Civil Engineering

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  1974

Awards & honors

• INFORMS Section on Location Analysis Lifetime Achievement Aw…
• Institute of Industrial Engineers David F. Baker Award Disti…
• Institute of Industrial Engineers Joint Publishers Book of t…
• George E. Kimball Medal , INFORMS (2009)
• Institute of Industrial Engineers Fellow Award (2006)

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