Tarik Aouam

Operations Management, Operations Research,
Supply Chain Management

BIOGRAPHY

Tarik Aouam is professor of operations management at Ghent University, Belgium. He is also an affiliate professor at ABS. He held several academic and administrative positions at dierent universities in the MENA region. He has also worked in the airline and semiconductor industries.
Tarik’s research interests include operations management in general, the optimization of operations and supply chain in particular. He has been studying models and algorithms for optimizing and coordinating procurement, production, inventory, and distribution decisions within and across rms.
Tarik holds a PhD in industrial engineering / operations research from Purdue University (USA) and a Master’s degree in industrial engineering from Kansas State University (USA).