Research Interests

Dr. Sheffi is a professor at MIT and serves as Director of the Center for Transportation Studies. His research and teachings are focused on applications of operations research and computer science to transportation and logistics and on logistics management and integrated supply chain processes.

Dr. Sheffi has worked with leading manufacturers in the US and abroad on a variety of domestic and international logistics issues -- including mode and carrier selection, distribution planning, inventory/transportation trade-offs and third party logistics -- and as a part of that work has developed a number of decision support systems now in use at many shippers. He is the founder of several companies including LogiCorp, PTCG, e-Chemicals, Syncra Software, and Logistics.com.

Dr. Sheffi earned a BSc from the Technion in Israel, and a SM and Ph.D. from MIT.