Professor Philip M. Kaminsky

Biography

Phil Kaminsky is a professor in the Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his PhD in Industrial Engineering and Management Science from Northwestern University in 1997. Prior to that, he worked in production engineering and control at Merck and Co. His current research focuses on the analysis and development of robust and efficient techniques for the design and operation of logistics systems and supply chains. He is a co-author of Designing and Managing the Supply Chain: Concepts, Strategies and Case Studies (McGraw-Hill, 1999, 2003), which won the Book-of-the-Year Award and Outstanding IIE Publication Award given in 2000, and co-author of Managing the Supply Chain: the definitive guide for the business professional (McGraw-Hill, 2004). He is an associate editor of Management Science, Naval Research Logistics, Operations Research Letters, and IIE Transactions, and has consulted in the areas of production and logistics system control.

Research
Analysis of integrated supply chain management models
Production scheduling
Modeling and analysis of production control and logistics
Systems, design and analysis of algorithms
Integration of production and distribution strategies