Dr. Md Abdul Quddus is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Textile Engineering, Chemistry and Science at NC State University. He also serves as an Associate Faculty in the Operations Research Graduate Program at NC State University. He received his Ph.D. in industrial & systems engineering from Mississippi State University in Starkville, Mississippi. He pursued the master’s program in industrial engineering at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, and holds B.Sc. degree in industrial & production engineering from Khulna University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh. He served as an assistant professor in industrial & systems engineering in the Department of Engineering & Technology at Southeast Missouri State University. He also has over five years of experience at FedEx Express as a Senior Operations Research Advisor, where he worked on various logistics research projects. His research focuses on supply chain and logistics, big data analytics, stochastic programming, geospatial analytics for optimization, and simulation. Furthermore, his specialties also include on the application of AI, deep learning, cloud computing, and operations research techniques to solve large scale supply chain network and risk management problems, and sustainable manufacturing.