Dr Laoucine Kerbache is currently serving as a Professor and a Founding Faculty Member of the Logistics and Supply Chain Management Program within the Engineering Management and Decision Sciences Division at the College of Science and Engineering Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU). For over thirty-five years of academic, research, and consulting activities, he has been very active in his areas of expertise, focusing on modelling and optimization in Operations and Supply Chain Management. He has published over one hundred papers in international journals. He has a PhD, MSc, and BSc in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA.