Allison Chang
Associate Group Leader, Transportation Safety and Resilience, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
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Logistics and Supply Chain Decision Support, Machine Learning and Optimization
Allison Chang is the associate leader of the Transportation Safety and Resilience Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where she primarily oversees research to develop analysis and decision support tools for logistics and supply chain applications. Since joining the Laboratory in 2012, most of her technical work has been in collaboration with the United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM). Under her leadership, the USTRANSCOM program has included analysis and modeling projects across wide-ranging areas including optimized mission scheduling, flight data analytics, predictive maintenance, decision support for mass casualty operations and agile basing, and agent-based simulation for contested logistics analyses. She has an Sc.B. in Applied Mathematics from Brown University and a PhD in Operations Research from MIT, where her research focused on designing mixed integer programming algorithms to address machine learning problems.
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Freight and Logistics; Big Data, Visualization and Media; Operations Research and Statistics; Automation, Control and Artificial Intelligence