Vikrant Vaze

Vikrant Vaze is the Stata Family Career Development Associate Professor of Engineering at the Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, where he also serves as Executive Director of the Master of Engineering Management Program, a role he assumed in January 2025 after serving as faculty director since 2023. His academic journey began with a Bachelor of Technology in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 2005, followed by Master of Science degrees in Transportation in 2007 and Operations Research in 2010 from MIT, culminating in a PhD in Transportation Systems from MIT in 2011. In recognition of his early career achievements, Vaze was named to the endowed Stata Family Career Development Professorship in 2020.

Vaze's research specializes in operations research applications across logistics and transportation, aviation, healthcare analytics, healthcare systems modeling, building energy analytics, systems optimization, game theory, and data-driven statistical modeling. His contributions have advanced optimization techniques for airline scheduling, paratransit systems, urban aerial mobility, and patient care, with work published in leading journals such as Transportation Science, Operations Research, and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. Notable publications include 'Multimodal Transportation Pricing Alliance Design: Large-Scale Optimization for Rapid Gains' (Transportation Science, 2025, with Cummings et al.), 'Activated Benders Decomposition for Day-ahead Paratransit Itinerary Planning' (Transportation Science, 2026, with Cummings et al.), 'Vertiport Planning for Urban Aerial Mobility: An Adaptive Discretization Approach' (Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2022, with Wang and Jacquillat), and 'Modeling Passenger Travel and Delays in the National Air Transportation System' (Operations Research, 2014, with Barnhart and Fearing). He holds U.S. Patent No. 12569149 for a system and method to detect diseases characterized by systemic changes in vasculature. Vaze's scholarship is evidenced by over 2,500 citations and his service as Associate Editor for Transportation Science since 2018. He is a standing committee member for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's panels on Aviation Economics and Forecasting (AV040) and Airfield and Airspace Capacity and Delay (AV060). His accolades include the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award (2018), multiple INFORMS Aviation Applications Section Best Paper Awards (2011, 2017, 2019, 2023, 2024), the Transportation Science and Logistics Outstanding Paper Award (2019), Woodhouse Excellence in Teaching Award (2022), Ivy+ Provost Leadership Fellow Award (2024), and the President of India Gold Medal (2005). Vaze is also co-founder of Multivariate Systems.

Professional Email: Vikrant.S.Vaze@dartmouth.edu