Mehdi Nourinejad is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at York University, an Amazon Scholar, and the director of Interactive-OR. Mehdi received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto and was a post-doctoral fellow at the Rotman School of Management prior to joining York University. Mehdi’s research focuses on planning and optimization of transportation systems using web-based tools that are interactive, intuitive, accessible, data-driven, and model-driven. Some use cases include routing problems in last-mile logistics, bikeshare network planning, electric vehicle charger planning, and fleet electrification; see more examples at interactive-or.net. Mehdi's research has been published in 40+ peer-reviewed journal articles and in media outlets such as Forbes, MIT News, Fox News, Global News, and IEEE Spectrum.
