METRANS researcher, Professor John Gunnar Carlsson, was recently selected as one of Popular Science magazine’s Brilliant 10 of 2016. The article described Professor Carlsson’s genius at using geometry to reframe distribution problems, thus creating “an elegant new approach” as they say. Read the full article here: http://www.popsci.com/brilliant-10-2016.

Source: snapshot from Popular Science website

John Gunnar Carlsson  is an assistant professor at the University of Southern California in the Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Professor Carlsson received his Ph.D. from the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME) at Stanford University in 2009 under Yinyu Ye and his A.B. in mathematics and music from Harvard College in 2005. He works on algorithms for solving problems in continuous location theory, and more generally, optimization problems that have some kind of geographic element. His research is supported by DARPA, the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the National Science Foundation, and the US Department of Transportation. Prior to joining USC, Professor Carlsson was also supported by an NSF GOALI grant, the Minnesota Department of Transportation, and the Boeing Company.

Shichun Hu

Author Shichun Hu is a student associate at METRANS Transportation Center. She is a 2^nd year graduate student major in Industrial and System Engineering in the Viterbi School of Engineering, USC. Her interests are using data and operation research methods to improve urban logistics as well as supply chain. She is pursuing analytical or operational jobs in these fields.