Layek Abdel-Malek

(Malek)

Professor, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
About Me
Ph.dD in operations research, from NYU (f/k/a Polytechnic University)) BS and MS from Cairo University in Mechanical Engineering. A Fellow of Industrial Engineering Society Receipent of Fedral, state, and Industrial grants, as well as the European Union. Published in the top tier journals of his field, and consulted for conglamorets.
Education
Ph.D.; New York University; Operations Research; 1980
National Planning Institute, Cairo; Diploma; 1970
B.S.; Cairo University; 1969
2026 Fall Courses
IE 443 - SENIOR PROJECT I - HONORS
EM 602 - MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
IE 701C - MASTER'S THESIS
EM 726 - INDEPENDENT STUDY II
IE 443 - SENIOR PROJECT I
IE 790A - DOCTORAL DISSERTATION
EM 701C - MASTER'S THESIS
IE 481 - INVSTGTNS IN INDS ENGR I
IE 725 - INDEPENDENT RESEARCH I
IE 792B - PRE DOCTORAL RESEARCH
IE 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT
EM 700B - MASTER'S PROJECT
EM 725 - INDEPENDENT STUDY I
IE 701B - MASTER'S THESIS
IE 726 - INDEPENDENT RESEARCH II
EM 701B - MASTER'S THESIS
Teaching Interests
Operations Research, probability, Management Science, inventory control, supply chain management, and Mathematical Programming
Past Courses
EM 602: MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
IE 440: PROBABLISTIC MODELS-IE
IE 440: STOCHASTIC MOD IN OPER RESRCH
IE 440: STOCHASTIC MOD IN OPER RESRCH - HONORS
IE 440: STOCHASTIC MODELS IN OPERATIONS RESEARCH
IE 443: SENIOR PROJECT I
IE 443: SENIOR PROJECT I - HONORS
IE 443: SENIOR PROJECT I HONORS
IE 444: SENIOR PROJECT II
IE 444: SENIOR PROJECT II - HONORS
Research Interests
Stochastic modeling, inventory control, location , health care systems, Telemanufacturing, Solar Energy, and Tele-healthcare
Conference Proceeding
"On the Application of the Newsboy Problem With Multi-Ordering opportunities in Multi- Echelon Supply Chains"
International Symposium on Inventories.
"Modeling circular supply chains resilience: A case study in fashion industry"
2024.
"Modeling Post-disruption Equilibrium for Circular Supply Chains and New Measures for Resilience"
2023.
"The MEM project: 5 years of experiences, challenges, and outcomes of an international double master-level degree"
International Conference on Higher Education Advances (HEAd’23), June, 2023.
"Decision Support System for Enhancing the Adoptability of Continuous Descent Arrival (CDA) at Airports"
21th International Working Seminar on Production Economics, February, 2020.
"The MEM project: experiences, challenges and outcomes of an international double master-level degree"
4th International Conference on Higher Education Advances, July (3rd Quarter/Summer), 2018.
Journal Article
Francesco Cafforio, SangWoo Park, Ilaria Giannoccaro, Layek Abdel-Malek. 2025. "Resilience of Circular Supply Chains: Analyzing the Impact of Take-Back Strategies via Efficient Computation of Post-Disturbance Equilibrium." Sustainable Development.
Layek Abdel-Malek. 2025. "Resilience of Circular Supply Chains: Analyzing the Impact of Take‐Back Strategies via Efficient Computation of Post‐Disturbance Equilibrium." Cafforio, F., Park, S., Giannoccaro, I., & Abdel‐Malek, L. (2025). Resilience of Circular Supply Chains: Analyzing the Impact of Take‐Back Strategies via Efficient Computation of Post‐Disturbance Equilibrium.
Layek Abdel-Malek, Pinyuan Shan, Roberto Montanari. 2024. "On Modeling and Lot Sizing of the Newsvendor Problem with Surrogate Product." Int. J. of Operational Research, vol. 51, no. 1, pp. 59-80.
Pinyuan Shan, Layek Abdel-Malek. 2023. "A Knapsack Approach to Solving the Capacitated Newsvendor Problem." Int. J. of Supply Chain and Inventory Management.
Emad Alharbi, Layek Abdel-Malek, John Milne. 2022. "Analytical Model for Enhancing the Adoptability of Continuous Descent Arrival at Airports." Transportation Research Paer C, vol. 12doi.org/10/3390/app 12031506, no. 12, pp. 30.
Giovanna Lo Nigro, Layek Abdel-Malek. 2020. "Current research issues in production economics." Elsevier, vol. 221.
Conference Paper
"Modeling circular supply chains resilience: A case study in fashion industry,” Materials Handling International Research Conference"
• Cafforio, F., Park, S., Giannoccaro, I., Abdel-Malek, L., “Modeling circular supply chains resilience: A case study in fashion industry,” Materials Handling International Research Conference, June, 2025.
Technical Report
"Continuous Descent Arrival Adoption During High Traffic Periods: A Data-driven and Predictive Modeling Approach"
INFORMS, November, 2016.
"Airports Operational Metrics for Implementing Continuous Descent Approach (CDA)"
Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) Annual Conference & Expo, Industrial and Systems Engineering Research Sessions (ISERC), , May, 2015.
Written Case with Instructional Material
"The Young Professional Dream Company’s Stochastic Inventory Management Problem"
Sage Publications , March, 2016.