Dr. Giacomo Dalla Chiara
- What is your hometown and favorite food?
I’m originally from Vicenza, a city in the north-east of Italy, and I love olive oil on freshly baked bread!
- What inspired you to pursue a career in supply chain, transportation and logistics?
After taking a windy academic path through economics, statistics and system engineering, I found that the field of transport and logistics combines all these disciplines to study modern pressing issues related to the sustainability and livability of urban mobility systems.
- Best Practical Implications Paper Award, Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting Urban Freight Committee (AT025) for "Commercial Vehicle Driver Behaviors and Decision Making: Lessons Learned from Urban Ridealongs"
- President's Graduate Fellowship, Singapore University of Technology and Design (2013-2018)
Dr. Giacomo Dalla Chiara is a Research Associate at the Urban Freight Lab. Before moving to Seattle he was postdoctoral research fellow at the Singapore University of Technology and Design in 2018 and visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2017. He holds a PhD in Engineering Systems from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (Singapore), a MSc in Statistics from ETH Zurich (Switzerland) and a BSc in Economics from LUISS University (Italy).
His research focuses on statistical methods applied to urban mobility problems. In his work he develops models and simulations to study and develop new sustainable urban logistics practices.
Questions and Answers
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What is your hometown and favorite food?
I’m originally from Vicenza, a city in the north-east of Italy, and I love olive oil on freshly baked bread!
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What inspired you to pursue a career in supply chain, transportation and logistics?
After taking a windy academic path through economics, statistics and system engineering, I found that the field of transport and logistics combines all these disciplines to study modern pressing issues related to the sustainability and livability of urban mobility systems.
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