Yossi Sheffi
Director of the Center
Director, Engineering Systems Division
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor of Engineering Systems
MIT Room E40-257
Cambridge MA 02139
TEL: 617-253-5316
FAX: 617-258-7733
EMAIL: sheffi@mit.edu
WEB: Professor Yossi Sheffi
Professor Yossi Sheffi is a professor of Engineering Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he serves as Director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics. He is an expert in systems optimization, risk analysis and supply chain management and is the author of the bestselling book The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage (MIT Press, 2005).
Under his leadership, the Center has launched many educational, research, and industry/government outreach programs, including the MIT Master of Engineering in Logistics program in 1998 and the MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program in Spain in 2003. Outside the institute, Dr. Sheffi has consulted with leading enterprises and founded or co-founded five succesful companies: LogiCorp (acquired by Ryder in 1994); PTCG (acquired by Sabre in 1996); e-Chemicals (acquired by AspenTech in 2001); Logistics.com (acquired by Manhattan Associates in 2003), and Syncra Systems (acquired by Retek in 2004).
