About

Benoit Montreuil is Professor and Coca-Cola Material Handling & Distribution Chair in the Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech (GT). He is Executive Director of the Supply Chain & Logistics Institute, Director of the Physical Internet (PI) Center and PI Lab, and Co-Director of the Sentient Immersive Response Networks (SIReN) Lab, a joint initiative of GT and IMT in France. He has received an industrial engineering education: B.Ing. from the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières in 1978, MSIE and Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1980 and 1982.

He leads the International Physical Internet Initiative, engaging academic, industry and government leaders worldwide into research and innovation projects on efficient, resilient, smart, and sustainable hyperconnected supply chain, logistic and transportation ecosystems and infrastructures. Vivid examples include his contribution to the European Union and Japan making PI their strategic vision and engaging in a PI roadmap, with numerous countries currently shaping the Asia-Pacific Physical Internet Alliance.

His main research interests generically lie in developing concepts, methodologies, and technologies for enabling, optimizing, and transforming businesses, supply chains, industries, and countries to thrive in a disruptive, fast evolving hyperconnected world. He stands at the crossroads of industrial and systems engineering, supply chain engineering and management, logistics, operations research, Artificial Intelligence and data sciences, strategic management, and sustainability science. His research builds mostly on a synthesis of systems science and design theory, optimization modeling and mathematical programming, simulation and digital twin modeling, AI and XR extended reality.

He has introduced in collaboration with students and colleagues an imposing set of paradigm-challenging leading-edge research contributions shared through 450+ scientific publications, 350+ scientific communications and 70+ keynote speeches at international scientific and professional conferences. He is currently advising an interdisciplinary team of 25 Ph.D. students.

He has extensive advisory, entrepreneurial and collaborative research experience with industry, organizations, and government. In 2016-2025, he has led and co-led 38 research projects, funded US$18M+, most in collaboration with leaders such as Aldi, Amazon, Americold, BRP, Cisco Systems, Daimler, Georgia Port Authorities, Kinaxis, Mercedes Benz, Michelin, MiTek, Nissan, Port City Logistics, Red Cross, SF Express, South Shore, The Home Depot, and UPS, as well as with NSF. As a spinoff from one of his research threads, he is founding member and chief scientist of Pull Logic, Inc.

Before joining Georgia Tech in 2015, he was Professor of operations and decisions systems from 1988 to 2014 in the Faculty of Administration Sciences at Université Laval in Québec City, Canada, after serving on the industrial engineering faculty of UQTR from 1980 to 1984 and Purdue University from 1984 to 1986. He has held the Canada Research Chair in Enterprise Engineering from 2000 to 2014 and the Bell-Cisco-NSERC Business Design Research Chair from 2003 to 2009. He was co-director of the CENTOR Research Center on Network Organization Technologies at Laval U. and founding member of the CIRRELT Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation.

He is a IISE Fellow and has co-led IISE Fellows’ International Ambassadors Committee. He has been president of the College-Industry Council on Material Handling Education and its Liaison to the Board of Governors of MHI, the North American industry association of material handling, logistics and supply chain solutions and technology providers. 

Though his career, he has received multiple awards, including The Physical Internet Pioneer Award for his outstanding and inspiring vision, DC Velocity’s Rainmaker of the Year, and the Pythagore Award for the excellence of his science & engineering career from his alma mater U.Q.T.R.