Borzou Rostami, PhD
Contact
Assistant Professor, Alberta School of Business - Department of Accounting and Business Analytics
- borzou@ualberta.ca
- Phone
- (780) 492-4647
- Address
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3-40K Business Building
11203 Saskatchewan Drive NWEdmonton ABT6G 2R6
Overview
Area of Study / Keywords
Supply Chain and Retails Analytics Transportation and Logistics Smart Cities Large-scale Optimization Data-driven Decision Making Machine Learning Applied to Real-time Decision Making Integration of Machine Learning and Optimization
About
Borzou Rostami is an assistant professor and the CPA chair of Business Analytics at the Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta. He is also a member of the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Data Science for Real-Time Decision-Making (CERC DS4DM) at Polytechnique Montreal and Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation (CIRRELT). Borzou holds a PhD in Information Technology/Operations Research from the Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy. Before joining the U of A, Borzou was an assistant professor at Wilfrid Laurier University and a postdoctoral researcher at Polytechnique Montreal and TU Dortmund, Germany. Borzou is currently an Associate Editor for INFOR (Information Systems and Operational Research). His research interests focus on developing optimization methods (integrated with machine learning algorithms) for large-scale decision making under data uncertainty that arise in supply chain, retail, health care, and transportation and logistics.
Courses
OM 488 - Selected Topics in Operations Management
Normally restricted to third- and fourth-year Business students. Prerequisites will depend on topic but may include: MGTSC 312, OM 352 or consent of Department. Additional prerequisites may be required.
OM 686 - Selected Topics in Operations Management
Topics may vary from year to year. Students should check with the MBA Office for pre/corequisites of specific sections.