Fatemeh Sarayloo

Fatemeh Sarayloo is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Information and Decision Sciences at the College of Business Administration, University of Illinois Chicago. She served as Director of Graduate Studies for the MS in Business Analytics program and as Director of the Center for Applied Analytics from 2023 to 2026. Prior to joining UIC, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Industrial Engineering at Purdue University. She holds a PhD in Computer Science and Operations Research from the University of Montreal where her doctoral studies were fully funded by competitive scholarships from NSERC (Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada) and FQRNT. She also serves as a collaborating research member of CIRRELT (Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation)— one of the world's largest logistics and operations research centers. Her research focuses on applied decision-making problems under uncertainty, utilizing advanced optimization and machine learning techniques such as combinatorial optimization, stochastic programming, and statistical learning. Her research applications extend to logistics, operations management, and transportation, and her scholarly works have been published in leading journals including INFORMS Journal on Computing and the Journal of Heuristics.

She has collaborated with leading companies — including TransUnion, Bosch, Gallagher Bassett, CCC, etc — on projects applying enterprise-grade AI, agentic AI, LLM/RAG-based systems, and advanced analytics to problems across a broad range of business and finance domains; several of the student groups working under her supervision have been recognized through conference publications and awards.