Faculty Profile

Gilvan "Gil" C. Souza Associate Professor of Operations Management Phone: (301) 405-0628 Office: 4311 Van Munching Hall Email: gsouza@rhsmith.umd.edu

EDUCATION

• Ph.D., Business Administration, 2000, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  Dissertation: "A Theory of Product Introduction under Competition" Advisor: Harvey M. Wagner
• MBA, 1995, Clemson University (SC)
• BS, Aeronautics Engineering, 1990, ITA – Technological Institute of Aeronautics, São Paulo, Brazil

EXPERIENCE

Gilvan “Gil” Souza is an Associate Professor of Operations Management at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. 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 as a product development engineer specialized in chassis design and noise reduction, and then in product planning. His primary research areas are in technology management, and 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 production planning, and 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 the core MBA course in operations management, and an elective in operations and supply chain strategy. 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.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• INFORMS: Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences
• POMS: Production and Operations Management Society