Chris Caplice

MIT Room E40-275
Cambridge MA 02139

TEL: 617-258-7975
FAX: 617-253-4560
EMAIL: caplice@mit.edu

Dr. Caplice is the Executive Director for the Center for Transportation & Logistics.  Prior to joining MIT, Dr. Caplice held senior management positions in supply chain consulting, product development, and professional services at several companies including Chainalytics LLC, Logistics.com, and SABRE.  

Dr. Caplice received a Ph.D. from MIT in 1996 in Transportation and Logistics Systems.  His dissertation, An Optimization Based Bidding Process: A New Framework for Shipper-Carrier Relationships, was selected as the winner of the Council of Logistics Management (CLM) Doctoral Dissertation Award.  It also 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).

Dr. Caplice also served five years in the Army Corps of Engineers, achieving the rank of Captain. His writing has appeared in the Journal of Business Logistics, the International Journal of Logistics Management, and Transportation Research. He obtained 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).