Dr. Mehdi Najafi

Assistant Professor
519-253-3000 ext. 5420
mnajafi@uwindsor.ca
Office: 3029 CEI

Education

• PhD, Industrial Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, 2012
• MSc, Industrial Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, 2007
• BSc, Industrial Engineering, Iran University of Science and Technology, 2005

Research Interests

• Optimization and Data Analytics
• Machine Learning in Operations Systems
• Logistics and Supply Chain Management
• Optimization in Healthcare Systems

Selected Publications

• Najafi, M., & Zolfagharinia, H. (2025). Warranty wars: Pricing and policy-making for extended warranty services by considering consumers’ preferences. Computers & Industrial Engineering.
• Mirbeygishahabad, M., Najafi, M., & Zolfagharinia, H. (2025). From imperfection to advantage: Quantifying the benefits of imperfect advance load information for multi-truck carriers. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 201, 104209.
• Bahar, S. K., Najafi, M., & Molana, S. M. H. (2025). Optimizing injured people transportation in earthquake response: Considering traffic congestion with BPR function. Operational Research.
• Najafi, M., & Zolfagharinia, H. (2024). A multi-objective integrated approach to address sustainability in a meat supply chain. Omega, 124, 103011.
• Zeynivand, M., Najafi, M., & Modarres-Yazdi, M. (2024). Kidney exchange program: An efficient compact formulation. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 196, 110533.
• Zolfagharinia, H., Najafi, M., Rizvi, S., & Haghighi, A. (2024). Unleashing the power of tweets and news in stock-price prediction using machine-learning techniques. Algorithms, 17(6), 234.
• Najafi, M., Zolfagharinia, H., Rostami, S., & Rafiee, M. (2024). Enhancing supply chain resilience facing partial and complete disruptions: Application in the cooking oil industry. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 131, 253–287.
• Sabripoor, A., Ghousi, R., Najafi, M., Barzinpour, F., & Makuei, A. (2024). Risk assessment of organ transplant operation: A fuzzy hybrid MCDM approach based on fuzzy FMEA. PLOS ONE, 19(5), e0299655.
• Zeynivand, M., Najafi, M., & Modarres-Yazdi, M. (2023). A recourse policy to improve number of successful transplants in uncertain kidney exchange programs. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 197(2), 476–507.
• Najafi, M., Zolfagharinia, H., & Asadi, F. (2023). Angels against demons: Fight against smuggling in an illicit supply chain with uncertain outcomes and unknown structure. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 176, 109007.
• Najafi, M., & Zolfagharinia, H. (2022). No longer in the dark: Utilizing imperfect advance load information for single-truck operators. Transportation Science, 56(6), 1573–1597.
• Moradi, S., Najafi, M., Mesgari, S., & Zolfagharinia, H. (2022). The utilization of patients’ information to improve the performance of radiotherapy centers: A data-driven approach. Computers & Industrial Engineering, 172, 108547.
• Ahmadi, G., Tavakkoli-Moghaddam, R., Baboli, A., & Najafi, M. (2022). A decision support model for robust allocation and routing of search and rescue resources after earthquake: A case study. Operational Research, 22(2), 1039–1081.
• Hosseinzadeh, A., Najafi, M., Cheungpasitporn, W., Thongprayoon, C., & Fathi, M. (2021). Equity or equality? Which approach brings more satisfaction in a kidney-exchange chain? Journal of Personalized Medicine, 11(12), 1383.
• Najafi, M., & Zolfagharinia, H. (2021). Pricing and quality setting strategy in maritime transportation: Considering empty repositioning and demand uncertainty. International Journal of Production Economics, 240, 108245.
• Jabbarzare, Z., Zolfagharinia, H., & Najafi, M. (2020). Dynamic interdiction networks with applications in illicit supply chains. Omega, 96, 102069.
• Nasrabadi, A. M., Najafi, M., & Zolfagharinia, H. (2020). Considering short-term and long-term uncertainties in location and capacity planning of public healthcare facilities. European Journal of Operational Research, 281(1), 152–173.

Additional Information

• Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=U3kGjooAAAAJ
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/najafi-mehdi/