Member Name: Salal Humair

Title: Associate Professor of Engineering Systems & Operations Research
(on leave)

Qualifications: Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
B.S., University of Engineering & Technology (UET)

Phone: + 92 (42) 572 2670 Ext: 2401

Fax: + 92 (42) 572 2694

E-Mail: salal@lums.edu.pk

Research Interests: Supply Chains and Engineering Systems

Biography: Salal Humair is currently on leave from SSE as a Visiting Associate Professor at the Harvard School of Public Health’s Department of Global Health and Population http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/faculty/salal-humair/, where he is developing research themes in the area of Health Systems and Public Health. Salal’s current research interests are in the area of Operations Research and diverse large-scale systems, such as health, water, energy etc. Salal has formally been with the SSE since December 2007, but as part of SSE’s core Project team, has been intimately involved in the school’s setup since its earliest days. From December 2007-January 2009, he served as SSE’s Associate Dean for Faculty and Staff Development. Prior to SSE, he worked as a Principal Software Engineer at Optiant, Inc. (Boston, MA), a technology startup founded at MIT and focused on supply-chain design and optimization.

Salal obtained his PhD and MS in Operations Research from MIT, an MS in Civil Engineering from MIT, and a BS in Civil Engineering from UET Lahore. His Master's research was on formulating conceptual design as a constraint satisfaction problem; doctoral research on yield management for telecommunications and his post-PhD work was in supply chain optimization. He has worked at CS First Boston, and interned at GTE Laboratories, IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center, Schlumberger Austin Product Center, and Lucent Technologies, Bell Laboratories. He has also had significant teaching experience during graduate school as Head Teaching Assistant for a large undergraduate computing course at MIT.