Md Abdul Quddus

Bio

Dr. Md Abdul Quddus is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Textile Engineering, Chemistry and Science at NC State University.  He also serves as an Associate Faculty in the Operations Research Graduate Program at NC State University. He received his Ph.D. in industrial & systems engineering from Mississippi State University in Starkville, Mississippi. He pursued the master’s program in industrial engineering at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, and holds B.Sc. degree in industrial & production engineering from Khulna University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh. He served as an assistant professor in industrial & systems engineering in the Department of Engineering & Technology at Southeast Missouri State University.  He also has over five years of experience at FedEx Express as a Senior Operations Research Advisor, where he worked on various logistics research projects.

His research focuses on supply chain and logistics, big data analytics, stochastic programming, geospatial analytics for optimization, and simulation. Furthermore, his specialties also include on the application of AI, machine learning, cloud computing, and operations research techniques to solve large scale supply chain network and risk management problems, and sustainable manufacturing.

Quddus’s publications have appeared in journals such as Transportation Research Part E, International Journal of Production Economics, Expert Systems with Applications, Applied Energy, Annals of Operations Research, and several conference proceedings. He is a member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) and the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE).

Research

• Supply chain and logistics
• Big data analytics and data science
• Cloud computing and high performance computing
• Operations research
• Geospatial analytics for optimization
• Simulation

Additional information on the Supply Chain Data Science Lab’s website.

Organizations

• Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM)
• Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
• Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE)

Teaching

• TT 486 – Supply Chain Management in the Textile Industry, Fall 2024
• TT 480 – Operations Management Decisions for Textiles, Fall 2025