Kimia Ghobadi
Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Former Post-doctoral Fellow, Sloan School of Management, MIT




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Scholarships and Honours:
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Post-Doctoral Fellowship (NSERC PDF), June 2014 (two years).
  • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Postgraduate Scholarships (NSERC PGS-D), April 2011 (two years).
  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS), May 2011.
  • Mart Liinve Graduate Scholarship, Ontario Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology (OGSST), August 2010.
  • Shared Hierarchical Academic Research Computing Network (SHARCNET) Graduate Fellowship, South Ontario Super-Computer Cluster, January 2008.


Awards and Competitions:
  • INFORMS Judith Liebman Award for Outstanding Student Volunteer Work at University of Toronto Student Chapter, INFROMS San Francisco, November 2014.
  • First place in poster competition, OCAIRO category, 11th Imaging Network Ontario (ImNO) Symposium, Toronto, ON, Provincial Competition, February 2013.
  • First place as a team at the first CORS/VISUAL8 Student Simulation Competition, CORS Annual Meeting, London, ON, International Competition, May 2007.
  • First place as a team at the first International Operations Research Case Competition (IORCC), Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, International Competition, January 2007.

Mentorship Experience:
  • MIT
    • Dual MBA and engineering Master's students (Leaders of Global Operations):
      • Philip Ebben, June 2017 - present
      • Jordan Hoffmann, February 2016 - May 2017
      • Andrew Johnston, June 2015 - April 2016
      • Adam Marshall, February 2015 - April 2016
    • Undergraduate students
      • Mary Theilking, September 2015 - March 2016
      • Alejandro Velez, September 2015 - February 2016
  • University of Toronto
    • Master's students in Industrial Engineering
      • Marlee Vandewuow, September 2014 - March 2015
    • Undergraduate students
      • Yago Oliveria, September 2014 - January 2015
      • Danielle Ripsman, September 2013 - May 2014
      • Evgueniia Doudareva, September 2011 - August 2012