MIT SCALE Research Expo Project Awards
More than 175 supply chain master’s students and certificate candidates attended the 2025 Annual MIT Global SCALE Network Supply Chain Student Research Expo on January 23, 2025, at the MIT campus. The students showcased their company-sponsored thesis and capstone projects (nealry 100 in all). The students have been working on year-long industry-sponsored projects to address real-world problems, gaining invaluable business insights in the process, and each project was displayed as an electronic poster. The Expo showcased this research-in-progress on a broad range of future-forward topics, and will provided an exclusive glimpse at what the final findings will reveal later in the year.
As is the tradition at each annual Expo event, attendees vote for the best posters, and one of the highlights of the following week is the award presentations for the winning projects. There are awards for the best project from students in each SCALE center.
Announcing this year's winners:
“Maximizing Efficiency in Flower Cargo Pallet Configuration”
Students: Nurhadi Apriyana, Matias Hare, Daynor Bautista
Center for Latin-American Logistics Innovation (CLI/GCLOG)
“Drone Applications in Rural Area Last-Mile Delivery”
Students: Xinyi Huang, Jin Luoyi, Liu Naihe, Guo Zihao
Ningbo China Institute for Supply Chain Innovation (NISCI)
“Enhancing Decision-Making Through S&OP Forecasting Tool”'
Students: Zulfiqar Syed, Raghav
Luxembourg Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management (LCL)
“From Dock to Destination: Toward an End-to-End Simulation Study”
Students: Kevin Power, Yassine Lahlou-Kamal
MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (CTL)
“AI Planners Improving Clinical Supply Chain”
Students: Anderson Chrispin, Atul Kumar
Zaragoza Logistics Center (ZLC)