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Staff Profile

Dr Mohammad Humyun Fuad RAHMAN

Background

Dr Mohammad Humyun Fuad RAHMAN is the Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Operations and Supply Chain Management at Newcastle University Business School. Fuad has obtained in Ph.D. degree in Computer Science (focus: Operations Research) from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. His research interest includes project and supply chain management. More specifically, he is interested in managing risks, uncertainty, and disruptions in managing sustainable supply chains and projects by mathematical models and optimization. Fuad’s research also includes intelligent decision-making for business, modelling and simulation, and applied operations research. His research focused on concurrent issues, for example, he worked on developing models and solutions for vaccine supply chains to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic considering different uncertainties and interruptions. He has also developed models on how to make manufacturing systems more sustainable.

Research

Fuad's latest research publications can be found in the following Google scholar link: scholar.google.com/citations. He has published many articles in top-tier journals and conferences including the European Journal of Operational Research, OMEGA-The International Journal of Management Science, Production planning and Control, Expert Systems with Applications, Computers and Industrial Engineering, and Automation in Construction, among many others. He has served as a guest editor and active reviewer of many reputed journals.

Before joining Newcastle University as a lecturer (Assistant Professor), Fuad served as an academic staff at the University of UNSW, Australia and Cardfiff Met University, UK and before that, at the Aalborg University (AAU), Denmark. While working at AAU, he collaborated with Airbus Defence and Space industry in a research project to develop intelligent planning and scheduling systems for material handling systems (logistics management) by using unmanned aerial vehicles in uncertain environments.




Key research areas:

  • Decision making in supply chains (e.g., inventory and logistic management, material handling, routing, network design).
  • Manufacturing systems optimization (e.g., job-machine scheduling, assembly line balancing).
  • Project planning and control (e.g., resource constrained project scheduling)
  • Workforce planning and scheduling.
  • Considering risk, uncertainty, and disruptions in decision making
  • Considering three pillars of Sustainability


Ongoing PhD Supervision:

  • Network design and routing for sustainable Logistic systems (Co-supervision) (Ph.D. program, SEIT, UNSW, Canberra, Australia).



Opportunities PhD supervision:



I am actively looking for potential Ph.D. students who has background in Operations Research and/or Operations Research. Students have good programming skills along with a prior understanding of optimization and simulation modeling are highly encouraged to apply.

Teaching

Postgraduate Modules:

  • Strategical Service Management-Module Leader (NBS8341)


Undergraduate Modules:

  • Operations Strategy and Management-Module Leader (BUS2029/BUS2129).
  • Supply chain Management-Lecturer (MKT3018/MKT3103)


Publications