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PhD in Transportation and Supply Chain

Next available term: Fall 2026

Important Application Deadline Information:
  • For acceptance into a fall semester, international applications are due December 1, 2025.
  • Domestic applications will be reviewed as they are received.

The Department of Transportation, Logistics, and Finance offers a Ph.D. degree in Transportation and Supply Chain. The degree is awarded through the College of Business in collaboration with the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI). The program takes an interdisciplinary approach to transportation and supply chain and attracts students with backgrounds in supply chain management, transportation, agribusiness, applied economics, civil engineering, construction management, emergency management, finance, geosciences, and industrial/manufacturing engineering.


Current PhD Students

Ruhaimatu Abudu

Graduate Teaching & Research Assistant
College of Business

Research Interests:

  • Machine Learning and Advanced Analytics in Supply Chain
  • Maritime Transport and Policy
  • Supply Chain Resilience

 

Evans Akoto

Graduate Research Assistant
Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI)

Research Interests:

  • Agricultural Transportation
  • Monetary Economics
  • Public Transportation
  • Smart Transportation
  • Sustainability Transportation
  • Transportation Analytics
  • Transportation Economics

 

Herman Benjamin Atuobi

Graduate Research Assistant
College of Business

Research Interests:

  • Agricultural Supply Chain
  • Autonomous Trucking
  • IOTs

 

Imran Badshah

Graduate Research Assistant
Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI)

Research Interests:

  • Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • Traffic Modeling
  • Traffic Safety

 

Md. Iqbal Bahar

Graduate Research Assistant
College of Business

Research Interests:

  • Demand Planning of Commodity Products
  • Market Forecasing
  • Multimodal Transportation Systems
  • Supply Chain Resilience
  • Supply Chain Risks and Disruptions
  • Sustainably Supply Chain Management   
Prince Solomon Boadu

Graduate Research Assistant
College of Business

Research Interests:

  • Coastal Resource Management
  • Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
  • Multimodal Transportation Systems
  • Ports/Shipping Administration
  • Smart Transportation
  • Supply Chain Analytics
Kwabena Dadson

Graduate Teaching Assistant
College of Business

Research Interests:

  • Freight Transportation
  • Multimodal Transport Systems
  • Risk Analysis and Resilience
  • Supply Chain Finance

 

Wesam Helmi


Research Interests:

  • Containerized Grain Movement
  • Freight Transportation
  • Supply Chain Management

 

Edmond Loni M. Lisinge

Graduate Research Assistant
College of Business

Research Interests:

  • Freight Transportation
  • Grain and Commodity Markets
  • Operations Research
  • Supply Chain Analytics
  • Supply Chain Resilience
  • Transportation Economics
David Mannah

Research Interests:

  • Last Mile Delivery Optimization
  • Resilient Healthcare Logistics
  • Supply Chains and Reverse Logistics
  • Transportation and Supply Chain Infrastructure

 

Benedictus Dotu Nyan

Graduate Research Assistant
Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI)

Research Interests:

  • Integrated Transportation Systems
  • Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • Public Policy
  • Spatial Modeling
  • Supply Chain Modeling
  • Sustainable Transportation
  • Transportation and Energy
     
Richard D. Penneigh

Graduate Research Assistant
College of Business

Research Interests:

  • Last Mile Logistics
  • Procurement
  • Production Scheduling
  • Sourcing
  • Supply Chain Finance

 

Baishali Rahman

Graduate Research Assistant
Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute (UGPTI)

Research Interests:

  • Integrated Public Transit
  • Traffic Safety
  • Travel Demand Modeling
  • Urgan Air Mobility

 

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