Dr. Manish Verma

DeGroote School of Business

McMaster University, Canada

Email: mverma@mcmaster.ca

Qualifications

2005 Ph.D., Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Canada

1998 M.S., Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Canada

Publications (Selected)

1. Moshtagh, M.S., Zhou, Y. and Verma, M. (2025), Coordinating a bi-level blood supply chain with interactions between supply-side and demand-side operational decisions. Intl. Trans. in Op. Res.. https://doi.org/10.1111/itor.13569
2. Siddiqui, Atiq & Sarhadi, Hassan & Verma, Manish. (2023). A robust optimization approach to risk-averse routing of marine crude oil tankers. Computers & Industrial Engineering. 175. 1-13. 10.1016/j.cie.2022.108878. 
3. Tripathi, Gyanesh & Tanksale, Ajinkya & Verma, Manish. (2022). Optimal location of accident relief facilities in a railway network. Safety Science. 146. 105560. 10.1016/j.ssci.2021.105560. 
4. Rafiei, Rezvan & Huang, Kai & Verma, Manish. (2022). Cash versus in-kind transfer programs in humanitarian operations: An optimization program and a case study. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. 82. 101224. 10.1016/j.seps.2022.101224. 
5. Sarhadi, Hassan & Tulett, David & Verma, Manish. (2022). A tri-level mixed-integer program for the optimal fortification of a rail intermodal terminal network. International Journal of Operational Research. 43. 65. 10.1504/IJOR.2022.121484. 
6. Vaezi, Ali & Verma, Manish. (2021). Exploring an Infrastructure Investment Methodology to Risk Mitigation from Rail Hazardous Materials Shipments. Logistics, Supply Chain, Sustainability and Global Challenges. 12. 1-16. 10.2478/jlst-2021-0001. 
7. Vaezi, Ali & Dalal, Jyotirmoy & Verma, Manish. (2021). Designing emergency response network for rail hazmat shipments under uncertainties: Optimization model and case study. Safety Science. 141. 105332. 10.1016/j.ssci.2021.105332. 
8. Bhavsar, Nishit & Verma, Manish. (2021). A subsidy policy to managing hazmat risk in railroad transportation network. European Journal of Operational Research. 300. 10.1016/j.ejor.2021.08.009. 
9. Sarhadi, Hassan & Chauhan, Satyaveer & Verma, Manish. (2021). A budget-constrained partial protection planning of a rail intermodal terminal network. SN Applied Sciences. 3. 10.1007/s42452-021-04558-9. 
10. Ke, Ginger & Verma, Manish. (2021). A framework to managing disruption risk in rail-truck intermodal transportation networks. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review. 153. 102340. 10.1016/j.tre.2021.102340. 
11. Khosroshahi, Hossein & Azad, Nader & Jabbarzadeh, Armin & Verma, Manish. (2021). Investigating the level and quality of the information in the environmental disclosure report of a corporation considering government intervention. International Journal of Production Economics. 108071. 10.1016/j.ijpe.2021.108071. 
12. Hosseini, S. Davod & Verma, Manish. (2021). Equitable Routing of Rail Hazardous Materials Shipments using CVaR Methodology. Computers & Operations Research. 129. 105222. 10.1016/j.cor.2021.105222. 
13. Jabbarzadeh, Armin & Azad, Nader & Verma, Manish. (2020). An optimization approach to planning rail hazmat shipments in the presence of random disruptions. Omega. 96. 102078. 10.1016/j.omega.2019.06.004. 
14. Zhao, Jiahong & Verma, Manish & Verter, Vedat. (2020). Pipeline transportation of crude oil in Canada: Environmental risk assessment using modified diffusion models. Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal. 1-21. 10.1080/10807039.2020.1816808. 
15. Sarhadi, Hassan & Naoum-Sawaya, Joe & Verma, Manish. (2020). A robust optimization approach to locating and stockpiling marine oil-spill response facilities. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review. 141. 102005. 10.1016/j.tre.2020.102005. 
16. Verma, Manish & Tulett, David & Sarhadi, Hassan. (2020). A tri-level mixed-integer program for the optimal fortification of a rail intermodal terminal network. International Journal of Operational Research. 1. 1. 10.1504/IJOR.2020.10031106. 
17. Siddiqui, Atiq & Verma, Manish. (2018). Assessing risk in the intercontinental transportation of crude oil. Maritime Economics & Logistics. 20. 10.1057/s41278-016-0048-2. 
18. Vaezi, Ali & Verma, Manish. (2018). Railroad transportation of crude oil in Canada: Developing long-term forecasts, and evaluating the impact of proposed pipeline projects. Journal of Transport Geography. 69. 98-111. 10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2018.04.019. 
19. Siddiqui, Atiq & Verma, Manish & Verter, Vedat. (2018). An integrated framework for inventory management and transportation of refined petroleum products: Pipeline or Marine?. Applied Mathematical Modelling. 55. 224-247. 10.1016/j.apm.2017.09.025. 
20. Hosseini, S. Davod & Verma, Manish. (2018). A Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR) methodology to optimal train configuration and routing of rail hazmat shipments. Transportation Research Part B Methodological. 110. 10.1016/j.trb.2018.02.004. 

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