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During its 2004 annual conference in Philadelphia, the Council of Logistics Management recognized MIT alumni Pinaki Kar (2002) and Paulo Gonsalves (1998/2003) for their innovative research in logistics and supply chain management.
Kar, 2002 graduate of MIT's Master of Engineering in Logistics (MLOG) program, was presented with the 2004 A. Grosvenor Plowman award for the best research submitted for conference presentation. He shared the award with three fellow researchers for their paper entitled "An Introduction to Semantic Modeling for Logistical Systems".
The researchers are building an intelligent modeling network that improves the productivity of modeling and accelerates the reuse of model elements for models in financial, healthcare and logistics applications. Kar is an independent consultant working in the pharmaceutical industry.
Gonsalves is a 1998 masters graduate of MIT's Technology and Policy Program and a 2003 doctoral graduate of MIT's Operations Research Program. He received the 2004 Doctoral Dissertation Award for his paper "Demand Bubbles and Phantom Orders in Supply Chains" that explores two aspects of supply chain instability: inflated orders and last sales.