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College / Department

College of Engineering
Department of Industrial Engineering

Teaching areas

Operations Research, Production Planning and scheduling, Supply Chain Management

Research areas

Mathematical modeling, Closed loop supply chain, cross-docking operations

Education

PhD in Industrial Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
BSc in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
MSc in Industrial Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Professional experience

Research Assistant, KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM & MINERALS, 2003 – 2006
PhD Candidate & Teaching Fellow, CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY, Montreal – Canada, 2006-2010
Post-Doctoral Fellow, CIRRELT Research Center - UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL-Canada, 2011
Assistant Professor of Operations Management, John Molson School of Business, CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY, Montreal – Canada, 2011-2013
Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering Department, AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH, UAE, 2014-Now

Memberships

Contact

rafif@aus.edu
+971 6 515 4927

Dr. Rami Asa’d

Assistant Professor
PhD in Industrial Engineering, Concordia University, Canada

Rami As’ad has taught several courses in the areas of operations management and operations research. His research interests are optimizing cross-dock operations, supply chain network design, application of fuzzy set theory to multi-criteria decision-making problems. His research papers have appeared in the International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Production Economics and International Journal of Operational Research.

Publications

Hariga, M., As'ad, R., and Shamayleh, A., (2017). Integrated economic and environmental models for a multi stage cold supply chain under carbon tax regulation. Journal of Cleaner Production 166, 1357-1371.
Awad, M. and As’ad, R., (2016). Reliability centered maintenance actions prioritization using fuzzy inference systems. Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering 22(4), 433-452.
Hariga, M., As’ad, R., and Khan, Z., (2017). Manufacturing-remanufacturing policies for a centralized two stage supply chain under consignment stock partnership. International Journal of Production Economics 183, 362-374.
Nassief, W., Contreras, I. and As’ad, R., (2016). A mixed-integer programming formulation and Lagrangean relaxation for the cross-dock door assignment problem. International Journal of Production Research 54(2), 494-508.
As’ad, R., Demirli, K. and Goyal, S., (2015). Coping with uncertainties in production planning through fuzzy mathematical programming: Application to steel rolling industry. International Journal of Operational Research 22(1), 1-30.
Ben-Daya, M., As’ad R. and Seliaman, M., (2013). An integrated production inventory model with raw material replenishment considerations in a three-layer supply chain. International journal of Production Economics 143(1), 53-61.
As’ad, R. and Demirli, K., (2011). A bilinear programming model and a modified branch-and-bound algorithm for production planning in steel rolling mills with substitutable demand. International Journal of Production Research 49(12), 3731-3749.
As’ad, R. and Demirli, K., (2010). Production scheduling in steel rolling mills with demand substitution: Rolling horizon implementation and approximations. International Journal of Production Economics 126, 361-369.

Conference Presentations

As’ad, R. and Bahroun, Z., (2015). Synchronization of replenishment decisions for the multi stage economic lot delivery and scheduling problem. To appear in the proceedings of 6th International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimization (ICMSAO’15).
As’ad, R. and Demirli, K., (2009). A modified branch-and-bound algorithm for production planning in steel rolling mills. In proceedings of International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Systems Management (IESM 2009).
Ben-Daya, M. and As’ad, R., (2009). A synchronized model for ordering, production and shipments lot sizing in a multi echelon supply chain. In proceedings of International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Systems Management (IESM 2009).
Ben-Daya, M. and As’ad, R., (2006). A Joint production, ordering, lot sizing and shipment model for a three layer supply chain. In proceedings of International Conference on Computer and Industrial Engineering (ICCIE 2006).

Awards and Honors

Received a three-year full scholarship from Concordia University in Montréal – Canada.
Received full time research assistantship at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM).
Graduated with a high distinction level for the overall university performance in the undergraduate studies

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