Muhammad Noor E Alam

Affiliate Associate Professor, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering

Muhammad Noor E Alam
  • Applied operations research
  • Healthcare
  • Supply chain
  • Large-scale optimization
  • Big data analytics
  • PhD in Engineering Management, University of Alberta — Canada
  • MS in Industrial & Production Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology
  • BS in Industrial & Production Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology

Muhammad Noor E Alam is an associate professor in the College of Engineering at Northeastern University. He is also director of the Decision Analytics Lab, a faculty associate at the Centre for Health Policy and Healthcare Research, affiliate faculty at both the Global Resilience Institute and the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, and a courtesy appointee in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences.

Alam's research aims to develop decision analytics frameworks with innovative computational approaches to solve critical societal problems in health care, energy and humanitarian logistics.

Prior joining to Northeastern, Alam was a postdoctoral research fellow in Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also a former faculty member in the Department of Industrial and Production Engineering at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. Alam is a recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and a former member of the board of directors for the logistics and supply chain division of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers.