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Biography
Dr Sahar Validi joined University of Huddersfield Business School in December 2014. She is a Senior Lecturer of Logistics and Supply Chain Management in the Department of Logistics, Operations and Hospitality Management.
Prior to joining University of Huddersfield, Sahar worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate with Kühne Logistics University (Hamburg, Germany). She worked on ‘‘Unilever’s 2020 Carbon Reduction Target for Logistics: An Analysis of the Company’s Options’’; a global-scale research project jointly funded by ‘Unilever’ and ‘Kühne+Nagel’.
She completed her PhD on 'Low-Carbon Multi-Objective Location-Routing in Supply Chain Network Design’ in Dublin City University Business School (Dublin, Ireland), she was granted DCUBS full PhD scholarship to complete her research. Sahar holds a Master of Industrial Management (Operational Research focused) and a Bachelor of Business Management from Azad University in Iran.
Sahar started her professional career as a researcher working on national and regional research projects in Iran with ‘Management and Planning Organization of Iran’ and ‘Industrial Management Institute’. She has an extensive experience conducting research and working with industry in Iran, Ireland and Germany. She has been a lecturer for over 9 years in Azad University of Sanandaj (Iran) working with Department of Business and Industrial Management, she has held few managerial positions during this time. She has also worked as a part time lecturer with Dublin City University (Business School and School of Computing) while conducting her PhD research project.
Research Expertise and Interests
- Operational Research, Optimisation and Analysis
- Combinatorial Optimisation
- Multi-Criteria Decision-Analysis
- Sustainability
- Artificial Intelligence
- Intelligent Decision Support Systems
and their application in:
- Supply Chain Network Design
- Logistics Network Design
- Environmental Impacts of Supply Chain Networks
- Green Logistics
- Supply Chain Risk Management
- Humanitarian Supply Chains
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An evaluation of three DoE-guided meta-heuristic-based solution methods for a three-echelon sustainable distribution network
Validi, S., Bhattacharya, A. & Byrne, P. J., 1 Jan 2021, In: Annals of Operations Research. 296, 1-2, p. 421-469 49 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Sustainable distribution system design: a two-phase DoE-guided meta-heuristic solution approach for a three-echelon bi-objective AHP-integrated location-routing model
Validi, S., Bhattacharya, A. & Byrne, P. J., 1 Jul 2020, In: Annals of Operations Research. 290, 1-2, p. 191-222 32 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access18 Citations (Scopus) -
Decision Support Systems and Artificial Intelligence in Supply Chain Risk Management
Baryannis, G., Dani, S., Validi, S. & Antoniou, G., 1 Jan 2019, Revisiting Supply Chain Risk. Zsidisin, G. A. & Henke, M. (eds.). 1st ed. Springer, Cham, Vol. SSSCM, volume 7. p. 53-71 19 p. (Springer Series in Supply Chain Management; vol. 7).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Supply chain risk management and artificial intelligence: state of the art and future research directions
Baryannis, G., Validi, S., Dani, S. & Antoniou, G., 3 Apr 2019, In: International Journal of Production Research. 57, 7, p. 2179-2202 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A solution method for a two-layer sustainable supply chain distribution model
Validi, S., Bhattacharya, A. & Byrne, P. J., 1 Feb 2015, In: Computers and Operations Research. 54, p. 204-217 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open Access73 Citations (Scopus)
Activities
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Intelligent decision systems within supply chain risk management: the potential of AI
Sahar Validi (Speaker), Samir Dani (Speaker) & Anastasia Zapan (Speaker)
3 Sep 2019Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Facility Location Models: Applications of Multi-Criteria Decision Making Methods
Sahar Validi (Speaker)
23 Jun 2019Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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AI techniques and Intelligent Decision Support System – A structured literature review
Anastasia Zapan (Speaker), Sahar Validi (Speaker) & Samir Dani (Speaker)
19 Jun 2019Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Evolutionary algorithms and supply chain network design: a comparative analysis on the effectiveness of heuristics, meta-heuristic and hyper-heuristics
Sahar Validi (Speaker)
11 Jul 2018Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Conceptualising the Physical Internet: a system thinking approach
Walid Mourhrib (Contributor to Paper or Presentation), Sahar Validi (Contributor to Paper or Presentation) & Samir Dani (Contributor to Paper or Presentation)
27 Jun 2018Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation