Associate Professor 10 Months EmailSchool of Business, Room 305
Education
PhD, Statistics and Operations Research, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, 2013
MS, Applied Mathematics (Computer Science), University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Azerbaijan (South), 2002
BS, Applied Mathematics, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Azerbaijan (South), 1999
Publications
Nahid Jafari and Bruno Kamdem, A Differential Game of Profit-Sharing in Multinational Transport Corridors: Strategic Interactions between Governments and Transportation Firms in 2026 5rd International Conference on Problems of Logistics, Management and Operation in the East-West Transport Corridor (PLMO), : Springer (2026).
Fatemeh Mosayebzadeh and Nahid Jafari, Towards Carrier-Level Airline Passenger Demand Forecasting: A Hierarchical Attention Framework for Strategic Planning in F. Mosaiyebzadeh (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2026 AAAI Spring Symposium Series, Section AI in Business, : (2026), 188–196.
Nahid Jafari and Martin Lewison, Forecasting air passenger traffic and market share using deep neural networks with multiple inputs and outputs, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence (ISSN: 2624-8212), 7 2024, 1-10.
Nahid Jafari, The chaos on U.S. domestic airline passenger demand forecasting caused by COVID-19, Int. J. of Business Forecasting and Marketing Intelligence, 7(3) 2022, 241-258.
Nahid Jafari, A Non-Assignment Problem based formulation for the Asymmetric Travelling Salesman Problem and its variation., International Journal of Operational Research (ISSN: 1745-7645), 35 2019, 575-585.
Nahid Jafari, A Robust Optimization Model For An Invasive Species
Management Problem, Environmental Modeling and Assessment, 23(6) 2018, 743-752.
Nahid Jafari, Achieving full connectivity of sites in the Multiperiod Reserve Network Design Problem, Computers and Operations Research (ISSN: 0305-0548), 81 2017, 119-127.
Nahid Jafari, A new method to solve the fully connected Reserve Network Design Problem, European Journal of Operational Research (ISSN: 0377-2217), 231(1) 2013, 202-209.
Nahid Jafari, Why caution is recommended with post‐hoc individual patient matching for estimation of treatment effect in parallel‐group randomized controlled trials: The case of acute stroke trials, Statistics in Medicine (ISSN: 0277-6715), 32(25) 2013.
Bruno Kamdem and Nahid Jafari, Logistical Optimization of the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route: A Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach to Nash Equilibrium in Proceedings of the 2026 AAAI Summer Symposium Series, Section AI in Business, :.
Presentations
Nahid Jafari, The rise of autonomous vehicles, Keynote presented to the Tashkent State Transport University (TSTU), on June 1, 2026.
Nahid Jafari, The rise of autonomous vehicles, Keynote presented to the Kastamonu University, Turkiye, on May 14, 2026.
Nahid Jafari, Generative AI in Supply Chain & Operations Management, Keynote presented to the İstinye University, Türkiye, on October 17, 2024.
Nahid Jafari, The chaos on US domestic airline passenger demand forecasting caused by COVID-19, Colloquium presented to the FSC campus center, on February 23, 2023.
Nahid Jafari, Air Passenger Demand Forecasting using Deep Learning Methods, Seminar presented to the SUNY, Albany, on September 13, 2019.