Dr. Silvia Carpitella

Dr. Silvia Carpitella is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Manufacturing Systems Engineering and Management, California State University Northridge. She received her B.A. and M.A. degrees in Management Engineering from the Università degli Studi di Palermo in 2010 and 2013, respectively. She then obtained a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain) and a Ph.D. in Technological Innovation Engineering from the University of Palermo (Italy) along with the title of Doctor Europaeus in 2019. Dr. Carpitella’s main research interests integrate engineering and math, with a particular focus on decision support systems, treatment of uncertainty affecting human evaluations, mathematical modeling and optimization of safety and supply chain management in industrial contexts. She achieved the National Scientific qualifications as an associate in the Italian higher education system for the disciplinary field of Industrial Mechanical Systems Engineering and as an assistant in the Spanish higher education system for the disciplinary field of Technical Education. She received the Otto Wichterle Award in 2022, which is granted to selected young scientists by the Czech Academy of Sciences, and the Outstanding Engineering Achievement Merit Award by the Engineers’ Council in 2024 in California.