Year: Graduate Student
Major: Industrial Operations Engineering
Hometown: Isfahan, Iran
Scholarships: IOE 2007 Bonder Fellowship Award in Applied Operations Research
Awards: University of Michigan College of Engineering 2011 Outstanding Ph.D. Research Award (Richard and Eleanor Towner Award), INFORMS 2010 Pierskalla Award for the Best Paper in Healthcare (from INFORMS Healthcare Applications Society), INFORMS 2011 Doing Good with Good OR Award (finalist), POMS 2011 College of Healthcare Best Student Paper Award (second place), MSOM 2011 Healthcare Operations Management SIG Workshop (among 6 papers accepted), 2010 Katta Murty Prize for the Best Research Paper on Optimization, POMS 2009 College of Supply Chain Best Student Paper Award (finalist), Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
Hobbies: Tennis, Volleyball, Poetry
Favorite Quote: Ah! All things come to those who wait. They come, but often come too late.

Soroush Saghafian is currently a Ph.D. candidate of Industrial and Operations Engineering (IOE) at the University of Michigan. His research focus is on the application and development of operations research methods in modeling and control of stochastic systems with specific applications in (a) control of flexible queuing systems, (b) healthcare operations, and (c) supply chain and operations management. He has been awarded the 2011 University of Michigan College of Engineering Outstanding Ph.D. Research Award, 2010 INFORMS Pierskalla Award for the best research paper in Healthcare (from the Healthcare Applications Society of INFORMS), POMS College of Healthcare Operations Management best student paper award (second place), the 2010 Murty Prize for best research paper in Optimization, and the 2007 IOE Bonder Fellowship award for applied Operations Research. He has also been a finalist for INFORMS 2011 Doing Good with Good OR Award as well as the best student paper award of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) College of Supply Chain in 2009.

At the University of Michigan, he has taught IOE 440 (Operations Analyses and Management) as the primary instructor in both 2009 and 2010. Prior to joining the University of Michigan, he has taught courses in Applied Probability Theory and Plant Layout as a primary instructor. He has served as a referee for various journals including Operations Research, Operations Research Letters, Naval Research Logistics, IIE Trans., IEEE Trans. on Evolutionary Computation, and Production and Operations Management.