Emily Barrett is an Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning at Georgia Tech, where her work focuses on the intersection of community-based geographic information systems (GIS), economic geography, and urban development.

Her latest research examines spatial inequities across U.S. cities, focusing on municipal budgets as pivotal sites of debate for economic democracy. As a dedicated community-based researcher, Barrett has a history of partnering with organizations like the Nashville People’s Budget Coalition and Stand Up Nashville. Through this work, she contributes to broad debates in urban planning, revealing how organizers are reimagining public finance to create more affordable cities.

She holds a Ph.D. in Community, Research and Action from Vanderbilt University and a master’s degree in Geography from the University of Kentucky.

Dr. Sofía Pérez-Guzmán serves as an Assistant Professor within the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She also holds a courtesy appointment at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. Prior to this, she worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Center for Infrastructure, Transportation, and the Environment.

Dr. Pérez-Guzmán's primary interest lies in addressing wicked problems within supply chain and transportation domains. These challenges often encompass disruptions, human behavior, multiple stakeholders, and equity and sustainability objectives. Her ongoing research focuses on disaster response logistics, food systems logistics, and urban freight transportation, with an overarching aim of enhancing the social performance of supply chains. Her research methodologies include optimization, simulation, data analytics, econometrics, empirical approaches, as well as behavioral and economic theories.

Education

• Ph.D. Transportation Engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2022
• M.S. Economics Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2022
• M.S. Transportation Engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2020
• B.S. Industrial Engineering Universidad del Valle (Colombia) 2017
   

Distinctions & Awards

•    Trailblazer in Engineering Fellow from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 2022.
•    Civil and Environmental Engineering Rising Star from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, 2021.
•    Second place at the National Institute of Justice Challenge of the US Department of Justice, category Year 3, Female Parolees, Small Groups, 2021.
•    First place at the Supply Chain Data Analytics Competition hosted by the Quinlan School of Business at Loyola University Chicago, 2021.
•    NY State Legacy Leadership Award from the Women’s Transportation Seminar, 2018.
•    Prest & Gio scholarship from Procter & Gamble. Bogota, Colombia, 2015.

Saeed is an assistant professor at the School of Computer Science at Georgia Tech. Before joining Georgia Tech, he was postdoctoral associate at MIT working with Professor Mohammad Alizadeh. Saeed received his Ph.D. in computer science from Georgia Tech, where he was advised by Professors Mostafa Ammar and Ellen Zegura. His Ph.D. was partially supported by the Google Ph.D. Fellowship in Systems and Networking. He received his bachelor's degree from Alexandria University in 2010. His research interests broadly cover the theory, design, and implementation of scalable computer networks and systems, including resource scheduling, congestion control, wireless networks, and cyber-physical systems.

Bobby Harris joined the faculty at the School of Economics in 2023. His research and teaching interests are in energy and environmental economics, industrial organization, and public economics. Much of his existing work has implications for climate policy and the energy transition.

Bobby holds a PhD in environmental economics from Duke University (2022) and undergraduate degrees in mathematics and economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2016). Prior to joining Georgia Tech, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar with the Initiative on Equity in Energy and Environmental Economics at the Energy Institute at Haas at the University of California, Berkeley. 

Education:

• Ph.D., Duke University
• M.A., Duke University
• B.S., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Courses Taught:

• ECON-2106: Principles of Microeconomics
• ECON-4460: Public Economics
• ECON-4699: Undergraduate Research

Suvrat Dhanorkar is an Associate Professor of Operations Management at Georgia Tech’s Scheller College of Business. His research focuses on Supply Chain Innovation, Circular Economy, Climate Risk, Health & Well-being.

His work has been published in various Financial Times (FT) 50 journals, including Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Production & Operations Management, Journal of Operations Management, as well as Transportation Science and Business Strategy & Environment.

He holds editorial positions at several business journals including Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Production & Operations Management, and Journal of Operations Management.

Before joining Georgia Tech, he was an Associate Professor at the Pennsylvania State University. Suvrat has a PhD from University of Minnesota, an MBA from University of Notre Dame and a BEng from University of Pune.

Dr. Boukouvala is originally from Piraeus, which is the port of Athens in Greece. As the daughter of an airforce pilot, she travelled a lot with her family. Her first international move was actually to the USA, where she spent one year in Montgomery, Alabama. She later on lived in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and Crete, Greece, before returning to Athens to get her B.S Degree in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University in Athens. In 2008, she moved back to the US to obtain a PhD in Chemical Engineering at Rutgers University in NJ. She then worked as a Postdoctoral Associate in both Princeton University and Texas A&M University. In August 2016, Dr. Boukouvala returned to the South East US, as an Assistant Professor in the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech. 

Her research interest in Process Systems Engineering (PSE) started during her PhD years, where she worked under the supervision of Dr. Marianthi Ierapetritou, on modeling and optimization of continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing. Her background on optimization and data-driven modeling was enhanced during her years as a postdoc with the late Christodoulos A. Floudas. Dr. Boukouvala is a proud 4th generation member of the academic family tree of the father of PSE, Roger Sargent.

Dr. Jian Luo completed his undergraduate and M.S. studies at Tsinghua University, Beijing, where he received a B.Sc.(Eng.) and a M.S. degree in Environmental Engineering in 1998 and 2000, respectively. He completed his Ph.D. in 2006 in Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University, California. The research Dr. Luo is conducting involves field, theoretical, and computational investigations of flow and reactive transport in subsurface; development and application of geostatistical methods for the spatial and temporal analysis of hydrogeologic and biochemistry data; development of computational algorithms and programs to simulate subsurface flow and reactive transport, and to assess the associated uncertainty; inverse modeling to estimate flow and transport parameters under uncertainty; and use of such computational methods and models to assess subsurface contamination, and to aid the optimal design of groundwater remediation operations.

Anthony Harding is an environmental economist with research interests at the intersection of innovative technologies and climate policy. He uses economic theory and applied econometrics to analyze the extent of socioeconomic risks from climate change, how policy and technologies can moderate these risks, and what impacts, intended or otherwise, policies may have. Before returning to Georgia Tech, Harding was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the School of Economics and a B.S. in Mathematics and Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.