Afshin Kamyabniya

Afshin Kamyabniya is an Assistant Professor of Quantitative Methods and Analytics in the Faculty of Management at the University of New Brunswick. Afshin specializes in optimization under uncertainty and data-driven optimization techniques with applications in business analytics and supply chain management.

His research interests include long-term care system design, humanitarian relief and healthcare logistics, multi-agency coordination planning, blood logistics, vehicle routing and casualty evacuation. Afshin’s current research is focused on long-term care network capacity planning with equity consideration versus efficiency and uncertainty, and dynamic healthcare capacity and evacuation planning under uncertainty.

Afshin has been working in different private/public sectors for the last 14 years such as the National Research Council of Canada as a researcher for two years, the Canadian Institute for Health Information as a data scientist.

Publications

Kamyabniya, A., Salman, S., Sauré, A., Noureddine, B., Patrick, J. “Optimization Models for Disaster Response Operations: A Systematic Literature Review”, OR Spectrum, 2023, Springer (2nd Revision).

Kamyabniya, A., Noormohammadzaeh, Z., Sauré, A., Patrick, J. “A Robust Integrated Logistics Model for Age-Based Multi-Group Platelets in Disaster Relief Operations”, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 2021, Elsevier.

Kamyabniya, A., Lotfi, M.M, Cai, H., Yaghoubi, S., Hosseini-Nasab, H., Yih, Y. “A two-phase coordinated logistics planning approach to platelets provision in humanitarian relief operations”. IISE Transactions, 2018. Taylor&Francis.

Kamyabniya, A., Lotfi, M.M, Naderpour, M, Yih, Y. “Robust Platelet Logistics Planning in Disaster Relief Operations Under Uncertainty: A Coordinated Approach”. Information Systems Frontiers, 2017. Springer.

Kamyabniya, A., Bagherpour, M., Sharifian, M., Mahdavi, M. “Time Driven Activity-based Costing in MPMP in a Production Environment”. Journal of Engineering Manufacture: Part B, 2012. SAGE.

Kamyabniya, A., Fakharzad, M. “Sustainability in a supply chain with a focus on efficiency, safety, and industrial emission factors”. Journal of Engineering Manufacture: Part B, 2015. SAGE.

Salari, M., Bagherpour, M., Kamyabniya, A. “Fuzzy extended Earned value management: A novel perspective”. Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, 2014. ISO.

Education

• Post Doctoral Researcher in Supply Chain Management (Operations Research and Management Science), The DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, 2022-2023
• PhD in Management, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, 2017-2022
• PhD in Industrial Engineering, Operations Research Group, Iran, 2013-2018
• Visiting Researcher, Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University, USA, 2015-2016
• MSc in Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, 2011-2013
• BSc in Industrial Safety Engineering, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, 2006-2010

Research grants and awards

• Ontario Trillium Scholarship funded by the Government of Ontario, 2017-2021
• John Duncan and Deb Cross Award (Best Paper Award), 2020
• Best Poster Award - National Thesis Competition, University of Ottawa, 2018
• Small Teams Initiative Grant, National Research Council of Canada (NRC) Ideation Fund, 2020-2022
• Mitacs Globalink Grant, 2019