Amin Chaabane

Full Professor in the Department of Systems Engineering at École de Technologie Supérieure (ÉTS, Montreal)

Prof. Chaabane is a professional industrial engineer (P. Eng.). He earned a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from École de Technologie Supérieure, Montreal, Canada, in 2010, and a Master of Science (M. Sc.) in Management Science (Logistics and systems) from the Conservatoire Nationale des Arts et Métiers (CNAM), Paris, France in 2004. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of logistics and operations engineering at ÉTS Montéal. He is the co-founder of Numérix Laboratory, a research unit at ÉTS specializing in supply chain engineering, notably the digital transformation of supply chains. He is also a member of the Innovation 4.0 Network, a Quebec research network in industry 4.0. Prof. Chaabane is also a regular member of CIRRELT, an interuniversity Research Center on Enterprise Networks, Logistics, and Transportation, and a regular member of CIRODD, the first strategic research group in sustainable development operationalization in Québec.

During the past 15 years, Professor Chaabane has contributed to multiple research areas in management science, particularly operations and supply chain management, with demonstrated practical applications across a full range of industries. He is also an expert in applied research. He collaborates with governmental bodies and initiatives to develop advanced data-oriented analytics tools to design and manage efficient, resilient, and sustainable supply chains. Professor Chaabane led over 100 funded projects in food, logistics, retail, energy, oil and gas, energy, construction logistics, and Forestry. With this experience, he has forged a solid industry-linked research program, which has resulted in substantial research funding from governments, industries, and universities.

Sébastien Thomassey

Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management, ENSAIT

Sébastien Thomassey is Associate Professor at the ENSAIT, France. He received the MS degrees in textile and clothing engineering from the ENSAIT and in advanced data analysis from the Lille I University, France, in 1999, and the PhD in automation and industrial computing from the Lille I University in 2002. From 1999 to 2002, he was R&D engineer with the French technical center for the textile/clothing IFTH and researcher with the Mathematic and Operational research laboratory of the Polytechnic Institute of Mons in Belgium in 2003. Since 2007, he has been an Associate Professor with the « Ecole Supérieure des Arts et Industries Textiles » (ENSAIT) and the GEMTEX laboratory. He obtained his PhD in automation and information technology from the Lille I University in 2002.

His researches are mainly focused on the implementation of machine learning and artificial intelligence for fashion industry and supply chain. He has authored and co-authored over 50 scientific publications, or book chapters, in international peer-reviewed journals. In 2018, he co-edited a book entitled “Artificial Intelligence for Fashion Industry in the Big Data Era”. He is involved in different European research projects such as Erasmus Mundus, CrossTexNet – Era-Net and H2020 programs. Since 2020, he is member of the Chair of Circular Fashion “Tex&Care”.

Imen Nouira

Associate Professor at Rennes School of Business (France), Department of Supply chain and Information Systems

Dr. Imen Nouira is currently an associate professor at Rennes School of Business (France), Department of Supply chain and Information Systems. She received her PhD degree in Industrial Engineering from the Grenoble INP, Engineering and Management, in 2013.

Her research interests include the design of green supply chains, low carbon supply chain management and agri-food supply chains, with both empirical and mathematical-modeling approaches. Dr. Nouira published her works in several journals including Decision Sciences, European Journal of Operational Research, and International Journal of Production Economics.