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Associate Professor II of Operations and Supply Chain Management, Research Affiliate (MIT) Director, Center for Sustainable Small-owners
Operations and Supply Chain Management, Analytics and Optimization, Sustainable Sourcing and Production, Community Empowerment
Dr. Asad Ata is an Associate Professor II of Operations and Supply Chain Management at the Asia School of Business. His primary areas of research include sustainable sourcing and supply chain management. Dr. Asad has worked full-time in the industry for over 12 years on various supply chain IT, telecom, and e-commerce projects. He has also worked extensively with food and agricultural supply chains with multinational corporations, NGOs, government organizations, and agencies such as the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and SWIFT.
With a team of more than 40 researchers, field officers, and consultant agronomists, he leads a sustainability center for SMEs and small farmers of oil palm in Malaysia. Dr. Asad is working with small farmer communities to design supply chains that are socially responsible, environmentally sustainable, and economically viable. Dr. Asad Ata has been appointed on the Technical Advisory Committee for Mechanization & Automation Research Consortium for Oil Palm (MARCOP) Malaysia, a Government-Industry platform to discuss, develop and adopt mechanization and automation technologies for oil palm. In addition he is also on the advisory board of PERTANIGA, an independent smallholder association of Oil Palm farmers in Malaysia.
Dr. Asad teaches graduate programs in the areas of logistics, supply chain management, and sustainability. His teaching and research expertise covers operations and supply chain management, analytics, software systems, optimization, and data modeling. Dr. Asad has been a Research Affiliate with MIT from 2011, where he has taught for MIT Global Supply Chain And Logistics Excellence (SCALE) Network. He has been part of the design team for MIT’s first X-Series MOOC on Supply Chain Management.
Dr. Asad received his PhD in Operations Research from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, USA. He completed his Master’s degree from Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, USA. He completed his undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.
Dr. Asad Ata is an Associate Professor II of Operations and Supply Chain Management at the Asia School of Business. His primary areas of research include sustainable sourcing and supply chain management. Dr. Asad has worked full-time in the industry for over 12 years on various supply chain IT, telecom, and e-commerce projects. He has also worked extensively with food and agricultural supply chains with multinational corporations, NGOs, government organizations, and agencies such as the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and SWIFT.
With a team of more than 40 researchers, field officers, and consultant agronomists, he leads a sustainability center for SMEs and small farmers of oil palm in Malaysia. Dr. Asad is working with small farmer communities to design supply chains that are socially responsible, environmentally sustainable, and economically viable. Dr. Asad Ata has been appointed on the Technical Advisory Committee for Mechanization & Automation Research Consortium for Oil Palm (MARCOP) Malaysia, a Government-Industry platform to discuss, develop and adopt mechanization and automation technologies for oil palm. In addition he is also on the advisory board of PERTANIGA, an independent smallholder association of Oil Palm farmers in Malaysia.
Dr. Asad teaches graduate programs in the areas of logistics, supply chain management, and sustainability. His teaching and research expertise covers operations and supply chain management, analytics, software systems, optimization, and data modeling. Dr. Asad has been a Research Affiliate with MIT from 2011, where he has taught for MIT Global Supply Chain And Logistics Excellence (SCALE) Network. He has been part of the design team for MIT’s first X-Series MOOC on Supply Chain Management.
Dr. Asad received his PhD in Operations Research from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, USA. He completed his Master’s degree from Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, USA. He completed his undergraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.