Rate My Professor Gita Taherkhani

Gita Taherkhani is an assistant professor of Supply Chain Management in the Information Systems and Supply Chain Management Department at the Quinlan School of Business, Loyola University Chicago. She earned her Ph.D. in Management Sciences from the University of Waterloo, M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey, and B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran. Prior to her appointment at Loyola, Dr. Taherkhani held a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics, and Transportation (CIRRELT) and the School of Management, University of Quebec in Montreal. She currently coordinates the Supply Chain Management Advisory Board at the Quinlan School of Business. In 2020, her Ph.D. dissertation received second place in both the INFORMS Section on Location Analysis (SOLA) Dissertation Award and the INFORMS Analytics Society (AAS) Best Dissertation Award.

Dr. Taherkhani's research specializes in supply chain management analytics, focusing on deterministic and stochastic models along with solution algorithms for data-driven decision-making at strategic, tactical, and operational levels in transportation, logistics, and telecommunications. She addresses these challenges from analytical and empirical viewpoints, incorporating sustainability aspects in scheduling, network design, facility location, and hub location problems. Her work applies to airline passenger and freight networks, express shipment, postal delivery, truckload and less-than-truckload transportation. Key publications include 'Demand-Driven Hub Network Design Under Uncertainty for Perishable Goods' (Transportation Science, 2026, with Hao Li, Mike Hewitt, Sibel A. Alumur), 'Robust Stochastic Models for Profit-Maximizing Hub Location' (Transportation Science, 2021), 'Accelerating Benders Decomposition: Theory and Implementation' (2022), and 'An Alternative Approach to Address Uncertainty in Hub Location-Allocation Problems' (2023). Additional honors encompass honorable mention for the INFORMS SOLA Best Student Paper Award (2021) and second place in the same competition (2019). She teaches courses such as Introduction to Operations Management, Supply Chain Analytics, Operations Management, Supply Chain Modeling, Decision Strategy, Introduction to Optimization, Engineering Economics, and Quantitative Data Analysis.