HomeCollegesCollegesCollege of Technological InnovationFaculty And StaffProfilesDr. Sinan Salman
Associate Dean and Associate Professor
  • Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, University of Arkansas, USA, 2007
  • M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering and Management, Oklahoma State University, USA, 2001
  • B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, Jordan University of Science & Technology, Jordan, 1999
Bio

Dr. Sinan Salman is an associate professor and associate dean at the College of Technological Innovation at Zayed University. He received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Arkansas and Oklahoma State University, respectively, and a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Jordan University of Science and Technology. Before joining Zayed University in 2014, he worked in the USA in the field of Supply Chain Management for 13 years at Merck & Co. and Transplace, Inc. His professional career included global supply chain and transportation management, logistics consulting, and optimization software development. His research interests are in the fields of Operations Research for decision support and systems modeling, simulation, and optimization. Dr. Salman is a member of the Phi Kappa Phi (PKP) National Honor Society, Alpha Pi Mu (APM) Industrial Engineering Honor Society, Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), and received multiple certificates and awards, including Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP), Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (LSS-BB), Certified Project Manager (CPM), IBM’s Artificial Intelligence mastery, and the outstanding teaching award from Zayed University in 2019. He is also the creator of the open-source X-Supply Game (XSG), an educational online and multi-player simulation game designed to introduce students to supply chain management.

 

 
Office

Abu Dhabi Campus, FF3.1.073

Phone:

+971 2 599 3544

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Teaching Areas

  • Data Science
  • Business Process Management
  • Supply Chain Management and Logistics
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Research and Professional Activities

Research Area(s)

  • Applied Operations Research
  • Complex systems modeling and optimization
  • Supply chain and transportation systems optimization
  • Data analytics for decision support
  • Technology in higher education

The X-Supply Game (XSG): an open-source, online, team-based supply chain simulation game designed to enrich supply chain education in classrooms. (link)

Refereed journal papers

  1. Hammami, R., Salman, S., Khouja, M., Nouira, I., & Alaswad, S. (2023) Government strategies to secure the supply of medical products in pandemic Times. European Journal of Operational Research, 306(1), 1364-1387. (SJR:2.35, Q1, H:274) (link)
  2. Alaswad, S., & Salman, S. (2023) Investigation of System Transient Availability under Imperfect Maintenance. International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management, ?(?). (SJR:0.61, Q2, H:94) (link)
  3. Salman, S. & Alaswad, S. (2022). Designing reduced congestion road networks via an elitist adaptive chemical reaction optimization. Computers and Industrial Engineering, 163. (SJR:1.32, Q1, H:128) (link)
  4. Alaswad, S. & Salman, S. (2020). Humanitarian aid and relief distribution (HARD) game. Advances in Engineering Education, 8(2). (SJR:0.56, Q1, H:21) (link)
  5. Salman, S. & Alaswad, S. (2020). Mitigating the impact of congestion minimization on vehicles’ emissions in a transportation network. International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management, 11(1), 40-49. (SJR:0.33, Q2, H:14) (link)
  6. Salman, S. & Alaswad, S. (2018). Alleviating road network congestion: Traffic pattern optimization using Markov chain traffic assignment. Computers & Operations Research, 99, 191–205. (SJR:1.86, Q1, H:152) (link)

Papers in refereed conference proceedings

  1. Salman, S. (2023). Analysis of the Chemical Reaction Optimization Algorithm. Proceedings of the Institute for Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Annual Conference & Expo 2023, New Orleans, LA, USA. (link)
  2. El Barachi, M., Salman, S., & Mathew, S. (2022). A Sensor-Embedded Smart Carton for the Real-Time Monitoring of Perishable Foods’ Lifetime. 7th International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies, SpliTech, Elaphusa, Bol, Croatia (link)
  3. Salman, S., Hammami, R., Alaswad, S., & Nouira, I. (2021). Planning the supply of emergency medical products to cope with pandemics. Proceedings of the Institute for Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Annual Conference & Expo 2021, New Orleans, LA, USA, 746–751. (link)
  4. Salman, S. & Alaswad, S. (2020). Network design using chemical reaction optimization and Markov-chain traffic assignment. Proceedings of the Institute for Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Annual Conference & Expo 2020, New Orleans, LA, USA, 49–54. (link)
  5. Salman, S. (2020). On the use of elitism to improve convergence of the chemical reaction optimization algorithm in discrete optimization problems. Proceedings of 5th NA International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, Detroit, MI, USA, 2943–2952. (link)
  6. Salman, S. & Alaswad, S. (2020). Vehicles’ emissions consideration in transportation network design using Markov chain traffic assignment. Proceedings of the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, Dubai, UAE, 762–771. (link)
  7. Alaswad, S., Salman, S., AlHashmi, A., AlMarzooqi, H., & AlHammadi, M. (2019). The effect of demand variability on supply chain performance. Proceedings of the 8th International conference on Modeling, Simulation, and Applied Optimization, Bahrain. (link)
  8. Salman, S. & Alaswad, S. (2018). The X-Supply Game. Proceedings of the Institute for Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Annual Conference & Expo 2018, Orlando, FL, USA. (link)

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