Dr. Sofía Pérez-Guzmán serves as an Assistant Professor within the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She also holds a courtesy appointment at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. Prior to this, she worked as a postdoctoral research associate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Center for Infrastructure, Transportation, and the Environment.
Dr. Pérez-Guzmán's primary interest lies in addressing wicked problems within supply chain and transportation domains. These challenges often encompass disruptions, human behavior, multiple stakeholders, and equity and sustainability objectives. Her ongoing research focuses on disaster response logistics, food systems logistics, and urban freight transportation, with an overarching aim of enhancing the social performance of supply chains. Her research methodologies include optimization, simulation, data analytics, econometrics, empirical approaches, as well as behavioral and economic theories.
• Trailblazer in Engineering Fellow from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 2022.
• Civil and Environmental Engineering Rising Star from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA, 2021.
• Second place at the National Institute of Justice Challenge of the US Department of Justice, category Year 3, Female Parolees, Small Groups, 2021.
• First place at the Supply Chain Data Analytics Competition hosted by the Quinlan School of Business at Loyola University Chicago, 2021.
• NY State Legacy Leadership Award from the Women’s Transportation Seminar, 2018.
• Prest & Gio scholarship from Procter & Gamble. Bogota, Colombia, 2015.
Assistant Professor Sofía Pérez-Guzmán was named the recipient of the 2023 Elwood S. Buffa Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Decision Sciences Institute.
