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Dr. Manish Verma

Professor / Associate Dean, Graduate Studies

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Department / Academic Area

Faculty, Operations Management

Email

mverma@mcmaster.ca

Phone

DSB: 27438
RJC: 20557

Designations

Associate Dean, Graduate Studies

Biography

Manish Verma is Professor of Operations Management in the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University. He has an MBA and a PhD in Business Administration with Operations Management/ Management Science specialization, both from the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University. His research interests are in multimodal transportation of dangerous goods, risk assessment, network design and planning issues in transportation, humanitarian logistics, green supply chain management, and disruption/ resilience in transportation systems. His current research engagements focus on safety and security issues in freight transportation and on humanitarian logistics, and are funded by Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grants. His works have been published in leading international journals in transportation, and in operations research. He has been approached by media to comment on railroad accidents of dangerous goods.

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September 26, 2025 · ACCOUNTING AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT | ALA MOKHTAR | ALFRED LIU | ASHISH PUJARI | BENSON HONIG | BERK GORGULU | CANSU EKMEKCIOGLU | CATHERINE CONNELLY | CHRISTINE LESAGE | FINANCE AND BUSINESS ECONOMICS | HUMAN RESOURCES AND MANAGEMENT | INFORMATION SYSTEMS | KHALED HASSANEIN | LINGLING SHI | MANISH VERMA | MARKETING | MILENA HEAD | OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT | RUHAI WU | SEAN O'BRADY | SHANE SAUNDERSON | SUDIPTO SARKAR | TRISH RUEBOTTOM | YAIR BERSON | YOONTAE JEON | YUN ZHOU

Celebrating DeGroote grant success in 2025

Three men in business attire showcase a certificate, highlighting Manish Verma's achievement in graduate supervision excellence.
December 3, 2024 · MANISH VERMA | PHD

The heart of supervision: How Manish Verma shapes future leaders

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November 20, 2024 · MANISH VERMA | PHD

President’s Awards celebrate excellence in graduate supervision

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June 16, 2022 · ASHISH PUJARI | KAI HUANG | KEN LI | KEVIN VEENSTRA | MANISH VERMA | MILENA HEAD | PHD | RESEARCH | SSHRC | YUN ZHOU

DeGroote Researchers Awarded SSHRC Grants to Address Issues Facing Canadian Society

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December 16, 2021 · MANISH VERMA | RAIL | RESEARCH | TRANSPORTATION

Adding Layers of Safety to the Shipment of Hazardous Materials

Publications

Journals

Daud: A Data Driven Algorithm To Find Discrete Approximations Of Unknown Continuous Distributions

Atiq w Siddiqui    Manish Verma    Arshad raza Syed

Journal     2025

Softwarex

Optimal Markdown Policies For Perishable Products With Fixed Shelf Life

Mohammad s Moshtagh    Yun Zhou    Manish Verma

Journal     2025

International Journal Of Production Research

An Analytical Approach To Designing A Circular Waste Management System

Paria Fakhrzad    Manish Verma

Journal     2025

Cleaner Waste Systems

Dynamic Inventory And Pricing Control Of A Perishable Product With Multiple Shelf Life Phases

Mohammad s Moshtagh    Yun Zhou    Manish Verma

Journal     2025

Transportation Research Part E Logistics And Transportation Review

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Other

An Analytical Approach To Rail-truck Intermodal Network Design

Zahra Mashayekhi    Manish Verma

Conference    2025

Transportation Research Procedia

A Novel Strategy To Managing Hazmat Risk For Rail Shipments

Zeinab Vosooghi    Manish Verma

Conference    2025

Transportation Research Procedia

An Optimization-machine Learning Methodology To Managing Disruption Of Rail-truck Intermodal Hazmat Shipments

Arash moradi Rad    Atiq w Siddiqui    Manish Verma

2022

Coordinating A Decentralized Blood Supply Chain With Interactions Between Supply-side And Demand-side Operational Decisions

Mohammad sadegh Moshtagh    Yun Zhou    Manish Verma

2022

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