Shadi Sharif Azadeh

Shadi Sharif Azadeh is an associate professor at Civil Engineering and Geosciences faculty and co-director of SUM (Sustainable Urban Multi-modal Mobility) lab at TU Delft in the department of Transport & Planning. She is the PI of the ERC Consolidator Grant TRANSFORM (2026-2031) that designs a smart “estimate-then-optimize” framework for a robust multi timescale asset management of multimodal transport systems in an uncertain environment.

Her areas of expertise include multi-level decisions under uncertainty, pricing and assortment optimization, choice-based optimization and large-scale combinatorial optimization. Her research has been recognized by INFORMS through Early Career Award and best paper awards. She is an Associate Editor at Transportation Science, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, and Nature Series (npj) Sustainable Mobility and Transport. She also serves as editorial board editor for Transportation Research Part B: Methodological. She is steering committee member of hEART, board member of pricing and revenue management Euro working group. As of January 2026, she serves as the president-elect of INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society (TSL).