Ammar Aamer

Dr. Aamer is a Teaching Professor and Director of the Digital Transformation Lab at Northeastern University, where he teaches in the MPS Applied Logistics and MS Project Management programs. He brings more than two decades of industry and research experience in logistics and supply chain management, project management, operations management, manufacturing, and data analytics.

He began his career in consulting, advising manufacturing and distribution companies on lean manufacturing, warehousing, Six Sigma, quality improvement, and simulation modeling. That work included designing and running executive training programs, building capacity and asset-utilization models, and leading continuous improvement projects. He then joined Gap Inc.’s global supply chain organization as a senior industrial engineer.

In academia, he has held appointments from assistant professor through full professor at several universities and served as dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Technology at Sampoerna University in Indonesia. His research covers data analytics in supply chain management, artificial intelligence in project management, lean Six Sigma, the Internet of Things, entrepreneurship, and the adoption of digital technologies in warehouse and distribution center operations. His work has appeared in the International Journal of Production Research, the International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, and Benchmarking: An International Journal.

Dr. Aamer holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Tennessee. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) through the Project Management Institute and a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB) through the American Society for Quality.