Benoit Montreuil is Professor and Coca-Cola Material Handling & Distribution Chair in the Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech (GT). He is Executive Director of the Supply Chain & Logistics Institute, Director of the Physical Internet (PI) Center and PI Lab, and Co-Director of the Sentient Immersive Response Networks (SIReN) Lab, a joint initiative of GT and IMT Mines Albi.

He leads the International Physical Internet Initiative, engaging academic, industry and government leaders worldwide into research and innovation projects on smart, hyperconnected, resilient, and sustainable supply chain, logistic and transportation ecosystems and infrastructures.

Dr. Montreuil has introduced in collaboration with students and colleagues an imposing set of paradigm-challenging leading-edge research contributions shared through 300+ scientific publications, 260+ scientific communications and numerous keynote speeches at international scientific and professional conferences.

His main research interests generically lie in developing concepts, methodologies, and technologies for creating, optimizing, transforming, and enabling businesses, supply chains, industries, as well as societal systems and infrastructures, to thrive in a disruptive, fast evolving hyperconnected world.

He stands at the crossroads of industrial and systems engineering, supply chain engineering and management, logistics, operations research, computer and data sciences, strategic management, and sustainability science. His research builds mostly on a synthesis of systems science and design theory, optimization modeling and mathematical programming, simulation and digital twin modeling, artificial intelligence and machine learning.

He has extensive advisory, entrepreneurial and collaborative research experience with industry, organizations, and government. In recent years, he has notably led collaborative research projects with Aldi, Americold, BRP, Cisco Systems, Daimler, MiTek, Red Cross, SF Express, South Shore, The Home Depot, and UPS. He serves on the advisory board of several companies. As a spinoff from one of his research threads, he is founding member and chief scientist of Pull Logic Inc.

Before joining Georgia Tech in 2015, he was professor of operations and decisions systems from 1988 to 2014 in the Faculty of Administration Sciences at Université Laval in Quebec City, Canada, after serving on the industrial engineering faculty of UQTR and Purdue University. He has held the Canada Research Chair in Business Engineering from 2000 to 2014 and the Bell-Cisco-NSERC Business Design Research Chair from 2003 to 2009. He was a founding member of the CIRRELT Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation.

He has been president of the College-Industry Council on Material Handling Education and its Liaison to the Board of Governors of MHI, the North American industry association of material handling, logistics and supply chain solutions and technology providers.

He has an industrial engineering education with B.Ing. from the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières in 1978, MSIE and Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1980 and 1982.

He is a IISE Fellow and co-leads IISE Fellows’ International Ambassadors Committee.

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