Dr. Douglas R. Bish

Assistant Professor

221 Durham Hall
Phone: 540-231-0462
Fax: 540-231-3322
Email: drb1@vt.edu

Biographical Information

Education

• Ph.D., Virginia Tech, 2006
• M.S., Northwestern
• M.S., Northwestern
• B.S., Cal Poly

Research Accomplishments

Management of large-scale regional evacuations; integration of revenue management and scheduling; and, vaccine supply-chain management.

Recent Course Responsibilities

• ISE 5405 — Optimization
• ISE 5984 — Logistics

Selected Recent Publications

1. Bish, D.R., Sherali, H.D., and Hobeika, A.G. (2006), “Optimal Evacuation Strategies with Staging and Routing," submitted to Transportation Science.
2. Bish, E.K., Suwandechochai, R., and Bish, D.R. (2004), “Strategies for Managing the Flexible Capacity in the Airline Industry,” Naval Research Logistics, 51, 654-685, 2004.

Industries Serviced

Airlines and service industries, biology and healthcare, public policy(disaster management).

Key Professional Service activities

• Member, Institute for Operations research and the Management Sciences, 2006-present