Gilvan “Gil” Souza
Gilvan “Gil” Souza is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park. He received his Ph.D. in operations management from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000, and his MBA from Clemson University in 1995. Gil also graduated on the top of his aeronautical engineering class from Brazil 's top engineering school, ITA in 1990. He worked at Volkswagen of Brazil, first as a product development engineer specialized in chassis design and noise reduction, and then as a product planner. His primary research interests are in supply chain management, including production planning, remanufacturing, reverse logistics, and closed-loop supply chain design. His research has been published in such journals as California Management Review, European Journal of Operational Research, Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and Production and Operations Management. He regularly works with such companies as HP, Pitney Bowes, and Toshiba, primarily in supply chain design. He is a popular teacher in the MBA program at the Smith School--he won the Krowe Teaching Award for teaching excellence in the MBA program in 2004--where he teaches operations and supply chain management. He is a member of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS), and the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), and he is an editorial review board member for Production and Operations Management. He won the Wickham Skinner Early-Career Research Accomplishments award from POMS in 2004.