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Usman Ahmed

Research Assistant Professor
Chief Development Officer

Dr. Usman Ahmed is a Research Assistant Professor at the UT-Oak Ridge Innovation Institute (UTORII), University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Dr. Ahmed’s research interests include supply chain and logistics, transportation demand modeling, emerging freight technologies for last-mile delivery, e-commerce modeling, and digital twins for transportation. His work integrates optimization, econometric modeling, simulation, computer vision, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to develop data-driven solutions that improve the efficiency, resilience, and sustainability of transportation and logistics systems.

Portrait of Usman Ahmed