Muhammad Noor E Alam

Muhammad Noor E Alam is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, a Core AI Faculty Member at the Institute for Experiential AI and the Director of the Decision Analytics Lab at Northeastern University. Dr. Alam also holds an affiliated associate professor position (courtesy appointment) at the Khoury College of Computer Science, a faculty associate position at the Centre for Health Policy and Healthcare Research, and an affiliated faculty position at both the Global Resilience Institute and the School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs.

Prior to joining Northeastern, Dr. Alam was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He completed his PhD in Engineering Management in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alberta (UofA) and received a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Industrial and Production Engineering from Bangladesh University of Engineering & Technology (BUET). Before coming to UoA, he served as a faculty member in the Department of Industrial and Production Engineering at BUET.

Dr. Alam is a recipient of a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award (2021). He served as a board member of the Logistics and Supply Chain division of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) from 2018 to 2020. Currently, Dr. Alam serves as an associate editor of INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics and as the Chair of the Academic Community of Practice Committee for the IISE Society for Health Systems. His former students have accepted academic, scientist, and engineering positions at leading institutions, including the University of Florida, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and Intel.