Bridge-to-faculty Scholar
Unversity of Illinois Chicago
Chicago, IL, United States
Dr. Carla Tejada is part of the 2023 Bridge-to-Faculty Scholar program at the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department at the University of Illinois Chicago. She received her doctorate from the Civil Engineering Department at the City College of New York, in June 2023. Her research interests are modeling urban freight transportation, network modeling optimization, and multimodal interactions in the urban scenario. Much of her research has
focused on measuring the social impacts of freight networks in cities and evaluating the existing freight policy.
While working towards her Ph.D., Carla was involved with the Charles B. Rangel Infrastructure Workforce Initiative. In the center, Carla served as a curricula development assistant and a transportation module instructor. Carla also collaborated with the New York City Department of Transportation Pedestrian Unit, where she developed a model to measure a Pedestrian Demand Map at the zip code level for New York City.
Before joining City College, Carla worked in several Supply Chain Management areas, such as last-mile delivery and transportation at DHL Express and the procurements department at SONY Corporation of America. She also holds a master’s degree in supply chain management granted by the University of Maryland, College Park, and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador.
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1619188 - Measuring the Impacts of Warehouse Development in Cities. A Social Sustainability Approach
Tuesday, June 18, 2024
9:10 AM - 9:30 AM ET