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Sofia Perez-Guzman

Sofia Perez-Guzman

Assistant Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Adjunct Professor, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Civil Engineering

Contact Information

Sustainable Education Building (SEB) 228
404.385.4213

Education

Ph.D. Transportation Engineering (2022), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
M.S. Economics (2022), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
M.S. Transportation Engineering (2020), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
B.S. Industrial Engineering (2017), Universidad del Valle (Colombia)

Sofia Perez-Guzman

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Dr. Sofia Perez-Guzman serves as an Assistant Professor within the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She also holds a courtesy appointment at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. Prior to this, she worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Center for Infrastructure, Transportation, and the Environment.

Dr. Perez-Guzman's primary interest lies in addressing wicked problems within supply chain and transportation domains. These challenges often encompass disruptions, human behavior, multiple stakeholders, and equity and sustainability objectives. Her ongoing research focuses on disaster response logistics, food systems logistics, and urban freight transportation, with an overarching aim of enhancing the social performance of supply chains. Her research methodologies include optimization, simulation, data analytics, econometrics, empirical approaches, as well as behavioral and economic theories.

Expertise:
  • Freight transportation
  • Humanitarian logistics
  • Food supply chains
Trailblazer in Engineering Fellow from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN - 2022
Civil and Environmental Engineering Rising Star from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA - 2021
Second place at the National Institute of Justice Challenge of the US Department of Justice, category Year 3, Female Parolees, Small Groups - 2021
First place at the Supply Chain Data Analytics Competition hosted by the Quinlan School of Business at Loyola University Chicago - 2021
NY State Legacy Leadership Award from the Women’s Transportation Seminar - 2018
Prest & Gio scholarship from Procter & Gamble. Bogota, Colombia - 2015
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Georgia Tech Supply Chain and
Logistics Institute
H. Milton Stewart School of
Industrial & Systems Engineering
765 Ferst Drive, NW, Suite 228
Atlanta, GA 30332
Phone: 404.894.2343