Dr. Inma Borrella is a Research Scientist at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. As Academic Lead for the MITx MicroMasters® Program in Supply Chain Management, she helps shape the academic direction of the program and coordinates the development and delivery of its online courses and learner experience. The program has been running for more than a decade and has engaged over half a million learners worldwide.

Her research focuses on learning analytics and online education, with an emphasis on how digital platforms and emerging technologies can improve learner engagement, feedback, and outcomes at scale. Her work has been published in academic journals and conference proceedings, and she contributes to the MIT Digital Supply Chain Transformation Lab and the MIT Omnichannel in Education Lab.

In addition to her academic work, Inma collaborates with industry partners to translate research into practice and address real-world supply chain challenges through data-driven analysis and education. She earned her PhD in Industrial Engineering from the Technical University of Madrid, where her dissertation examined inclusive business models to advance social sustainability in agri-food supply chains.

Prior to joining MIT in 2017, she was an Assistant Professor at the Technical University of Madrid and completed a predoctoral research stay at Utrecht University.

Dr. Yossi Sheffi is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he serves as Director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics (MIT CTL). He is an expert in systems optimization, risk analysis, and supply chain management, which are the subjects he teaches and researches at MIT. He is the author of many scientific publications and nine books.

Under his leadership, MIT CTL launched many new educational, research, and industry/government outreach programs, leading to substantial growth. He founded the MITx MicroMasters in Supply Chain Management. He is the founder and the Director of MIT's Master of Supply Chain Management degree. He also led the international expansion of MIT CTL by launching the Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence (SCALE) global network of academic centers of education and research. The network includes centers modeled after MIT CTL in Zaragoza, Spain; Bogota, Colombia; and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

From 2007 to 2011 he served as the Director of the MIT Engineering Systems Division, where he set a strategy, revamped the PhD program, and set the division for future growth.

Outside the university Professor Sheffi has consulted with governments and leading manufacturing, retail and transportation enterprises all over the world. He is also an active entrepreneur, having founded and co-founded five successful companies.

Dr. Sheffi was recognized in numerous ways in academic and industry forums and was on the cover of Purchasing Magazine and Transportation and Distribution Magazine. In 1997 he won the most prestigious recognition given by the Council of Logistics Management—the Distinguished Service Award. In 2006 he won the Aragón International Prize. In 2010 he became an honorary Doctor (Doctor Honoris Causa) of the University of Zaragoza in Spain and in 2011 he was awarded the Salzberg Medal and Award for "outstanding leadership and innovations in Supply Chain management" by the University of Syracuse. He is also a life fellow of Cambridge University's Clare Hall College.

He obtained his B.Sc. from the Technion in Israel in 1975, his S.M. from MIT in 1977, and Ph.D. from MIT in 1978. He now resides in Boston, Massachusetts.

Jim Rice joined the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics in 1995 and was appointed as the Deputy Director of CTL in 2007. In this capacity he oversaw all industrial outreach programs to engage industry practitioners, and served as the Director of the Supply Chain Exchange, and ran CTL’s Executive Education Programs.

His primary research had been focused on a broad range of study and contributions on supply chain resilience and risk management related topics. In addition to studying resilience and risk management, Jim studied supply chain innovation and has helped identify key success factors and methods for pursuing and achieving innovation in the supply chain.

Outside of research and the Supply Chain Exchange, Jim teaches in the graduate degree program (Supply Chain Financial Analysis courses), in the online SC2x course, in CTL’s executive education programs and in the MIT SCALE Network. His teaching includes case instruction on supply chain design for strategic advantage, supply chain financial analysis, and workshops and simulations focused on strategic alignment, business continuity planning, supply chain dynamics and supply chain strategy.

His written work includes contributions to books, working papers and recently published authored and co-authored articles. In 2013 Jim was selected as one of DC Velocity’s 2013 Rainmakers.

Prior to joining MIT, Jim managed manufacturing and distribution operations at Procter & Gamble, and served as a sales and market manager at General Electric Company. Jim earned his MBA in Operations and Finance from the Harvard Business School, and a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame.

Jarrod Goentzel is Founder and Director of the MIT Humanitarian Supply Chain Lab and Principal Research Scientist in the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics. His research focuses on meeting human needs in resource-constrained settings through better supply chain management, information systems, and decision support technology. Dr. Goentzel leads fieldwork in a range of contexts to develop insights that improve response efforts during emergencies and strengthen supply chains in vulnerable communities. Research involves direct engagement with the private sector, government agencies, humanitarian, international development, and community organizations on several continents. Dr. Goentzel has created residential and online courses in humanitarian logistics, international operations, and supply chain finance, and has extensive experience using simulation games to build intuition and leadership skills.

Previously, Dr. Goentzel was Executive Director of the MIT Supply Chain Management (SCM) Program, a nine-month master’s degree program. He joined MIT in 2003 to establish the Zaragoza Logistics Center in Spain, which was the first node in the MIT Global SCALE Network.He received a Ph.D. from the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Dr. Arntzen is the Executive Director, MIT Supply Chain Management Program where he oversees the SCM curriculum, student admissions, faculty selection, and student job placement. He serves as the faculty advisor, oversees Master’s theses, and teaches the course “Global Supply Chain Management.” As a Research Director he leads the MIT Hi-Viz Supply Chain project which is developing automated board-ready visualizations of the supply chain and its critical risk pathways. Dr. Arntzen founded two supply chain consulting firms, lead industrial engineering and operations planning groups at Digital Equipment Corp., performed operations management consulting at Arthur D. Little, Inc., and served as an economic analyst at The World Bank in Washington, DC. An expert on Supply Chain Risk Management and International Supply Chain Operations, he is a frequent speaker at industry conferences including CSCMP, WERC, APICS, OIA, and INFORMS. He has thrice served as the President of the New England Chapter of CSCMP. Dr. Arntzen holds a BA and BS from Bucknell University, an MSE from Johns Hopkins, and a PhD from MIT.

Alexis Bateman is Visiting Faculty at MIT CTL. Formerly Director of MIT Sustainable Supply chains, CTL research initiative that brought together researchers from across MIT to advance supply chain sustainability, engaging on educational initiatives, research with industrial partners, and outreach around supply chain sustainability. Her research has been featured in numerous academic and industry outlets including Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, Sloan Management Review, Supply Chain Management Review, and many others.

She also served as a course lead and instructor for the MITx MicroMasters in Supply Chain Management, a pioneering program in digital education reaching 100,000s of supply chain professionals around the world.

Dr. Cassa is a Lecturer at the MIT Supply Chain Management Program where he directs courses on databases, data science, and machine learning. He currently teaches “Databases and Data Analysis for Supply Chain Management” in the Fall and “Data Science for Supply Chain Management” in the Spring in the SCMr program. Along with Dr. Caplice, he also teaches SC4x in the MITx MicroMasters credential in Supply Chain Management.

He actively uses data science in his research, and holds appointments as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Division of Genetics. Dr. Cassa is also a research affiliate of the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. He holds a S.B. and M.Eng from MIT and a PhD from the Harvard/MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology in Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics.

David Correll is a Lecturer and a Research Scientist at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics, where he also serves as Co-Director of the MIT Freight Lab and as a Course Lead in the MITx MicroMaster’s in Supply Chain Management program. Dr. Correll’s current research focuses on the working experiences of the American long-haul truck driver. He leads the Driver Initiative, which partners with trucking companies, truck drivers, and other parties to identify opportunities for improving American truck driver retention, utilization, and quality of life. On campus, Dr. Correll teaches SCM.291 Procurement Fundamentals, which introduces students to the legacy of strategic thought when a company looks upstream. On-line, Dr. Correll leads SC4x Supply Chain Technology & Systems, which introduces students to the software systems that run modern supply chain systems.

Dr. Caplice serves as the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Transportation & Logistics (CTL) where he is responsible for the planning and management of the research, education, and corporate outreach programs for the center. He created and currently serves as Director of the MITx MicroMasters® Program in Supply Chain Management – the very first MicroMasters credential ever offered. In 2018, he was awarded the MITx Prize for Teaching and Learning, the Irwin Sizer Award for the Most Significant Improvement to MIT Education, and the MIT Teaching with Digital Technology Award.

Dr. Caplice was selected as the first Silver Family Research Fellow in 2016 in recognition of his contribution to supply chain education and research. Also in 2016, he received the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals (CSCMP) Distinguished Service Award.

He is also the founder and co-director of the MIT FreightLab – a research initiative that focuses on improving the way freight transportation is designed, procured, and managed. His primary research is in all aspects of freight transportation to include combinatorial procurement auctions, robust planning, portfolio management, performance metrics, and infrastructure design.

In addition to his work at MIT, Dr. Caplice is currently the Chief Scientist for DAT Freight & Analytics, the largest truckload freight marketplace in North America with over $120 billion in market transactions. In this role, he pioneered the concept of freight rate modeling that became Chainalytics Freight Market Intelligence Consortium (FMIC) and is now part of DAT. He leads the development and deployment of innovations and insights into the transportation industry to include the monthly FMIC Pulse Signal Report and the bi-weekly Freightvine Podcasts.

Prior to joining MIT, Dr. Caplice held senior management positions in supply chain consulting, product development, and professional services at several companies to include Logistics.com, SABRE, and PTCG. As part of PTCG/SABRE, he led the team that pioneered the concept and use of optimization-based procurement throughout the transportation industry.

Chris received a Ph.D. from MIT in 1996 in Transportation and Logistics Systems. His dissertation on Optimization Based Bidding for Transportation was selected as the winner of the Council of Logistics Management (CLM) Doctoral Dissertation Award and received an Honorable Mention in the 1996 Dissertation Award sponsored by the Transportation Science Section of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).

Prior to receiving his PhD, Dr. Caplice taught at the Virginia Military Institute for two years and served five years in the Army Corps of Engineers, achieving the rank of Captain. His writing has appeared in numerous academic and business journals and publications. In addition to his PhD, he earned a Master of Science in Civil Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the Virginia Military Institute (VMI).

Dr. Ponce holds the pivotal role of Director of Online Education at MIT, Center for Transportation & Logistics. She leads the MITx MicroMasters® Program in Supply Chain Management. In this capacity, she leads a dedicated team and manages the delivery of the five massive MITx courses in Supply Chain Management, as well as the Comprehensive Final Exam that constitute the MicroMasters curriculum. These courses have globally reached tens of thousands of students across open enrollment from over 190 countries, demonstrating her experience in leading a significant global educational program.

Dr. Eva Ponce also serves as the Director of the MIT Omnichannel Supply Chain Lab within the MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics, where she conducts her work as a Research Scientist. Her research primarily explores the transformation of supply chains in the omnichannel era, emphasizing actionable insights for retailers and manufacturers navigating the complexities of e-commerce growth and mobile technologies. She guides companies in redesigning their e-commerce fulfillment strategies and adapting to the impact of technological advancements and automation. Additionally, Dr. Ponce spearheads research initiatives focused on sustainable practices, specifically in Circular Supply Chains, Reverse Logistics, and Closed-Loop Supply Chains.

Currently, Dr. Ponce is leading an innovative research line in Omnichannel Education at MIT, which is transforming supply chain management education around the world. Dr. Ponce and her team received in 2018 the Irwin Sizer Award for the Most Significant Improvement to MIT Education. Dr. Ponce has over twenty years of experience in teaching and research in supply chain management and quantitative models for industrial engineering. She teaches courses in eCommerce and Omnnichannel Fulfillment, Sustainable Supply Chains, Digital Supply Chains, and Supply Chain Management at the Master's, Ph.D., and Executive Education levels. She is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Management Program at Harvard Extension School. In 2008, she received her tenure as an Associate Professor in Supply Chain Management and Logistics at the School of Industrial Engineering of the Technical University of Madrid (UPM).

Dr. Ponce received her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Carlos III University of Madrid in 2002. Her dissertation received two awards with special distinction. In 2000, she was granted a pre-doctoral research stay in the Hass School of Business, University of California, and in 2011, she was a visiting professor at MIT CTL. She joined MIT CTL in 2016. She has an active publication record, including journal papers, conference proceedings, and refereed abstracts.