About Amir Ghahari

Amir Ghahari

Amir Ghahari is an Operations Research Scientist at Convoy. In this role, he is responsible for developing and maintaining different OR models to help reduce costs and improve efficiency in the drop-and-hook space. Before joining Convoy, Amir was the Lead Operations Research Scientist at BNSF Railway for almost three years, where he developed several simulation models to provide analytics insights for the hub expansion planning team. Amir earned his Ph.D. in industrial engineering from the University of Arkansas. He is an aviation enthusiast and a soccer maniac.

Posts by Amir Ghahari:

Ushering in a New Era of Drop-and-Hook Through Combinatorial Optimization

In this post, we highlight the complex and innovative combinatorial optimization techniques used by Convoy scientists and engineers to achieve efficiency and scale in what is fast becoming the most popular way for retailers and manufacturers to move truckload freight: drop-and-hook. We’ll explain what drop-and-hook is, why it’s historically presented problems of inefficiency to companies…