Md Mahbubar Rahman is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree in industrial and manufacturing engineering under supervision of David Grewell and Nita Yodo at North Dakota State University. His Ph.D. research is focused on cooperative vehicles routing problems. He has proposed a last-mile distribution system for delivering emergency supplies to disaster-affected people and solved it using a greedy randomized adaptive search procedure with a path relinking framework. He is also working on several funded projects on biodegradable plant container development, intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and additive manufacturing. His research interest contains the area of mathematical programming, exact and heuristic algorithm development, and artificial intelligence.