Mohammad Dehghani
Associate Teaching Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Program Director, Galante Engineering Business Program
Office
- 253 SN
- 617.373.4722
Research Focus
Reinforcement Learning, Simulation Optimization; Healthcare Operations
About
Mohammad Dehghani is an Associate Teaching Professor of Mechanical and Industrial engineering at Northeastern University. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Management at Western New England University. His Ph.D. dissertation received the Best Ph.D. Paper Award at the 2015 Winter Simulation Conference. His research is mainly focused on developing and applying Reinforcement Learning (RL) frameworks to address different engineering applications. These applications range in manufacturing and scheduling, digital twin, UAV and vehicle routing, and healthcare operations.
In addition to his research efforts, Mohammad has offered/developed multiple courses for Industrial Engineering, Engineering Management, and Data Analytics Engineering programs, and received the 2020 Fostering Engineering Innovation in Education Award.
Education
- 2016 PhD in Engineering Management, Western New England University
- 2011 MS in Industrial Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University
- 2008 BS in Industrial Engineering, Yazd University
Professional Affiliations
- American Society of Engineering Management
- Institute of Industrial Engineers
- Society for Modeling and Simulation Interactions
Research Overview
Reinforcement Learning, Simulation Optimization; Healthcare Operations
Department Research Areas
Selected Publications
- M Dehghanimohammadabadi, N Kabadayi, A Two-Stage AHP Multi-Objective Simulation Optimization Approach in Healthcare, International Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process 12 (1), 2021
- N.O. Fernandes,M. Dehghanimohammadabadi, C. Silva, Iterative Optimization-Based Simulation: A Decision Support Tool for Job Release, 6th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies, Naples, Italy, 2018
- A. Negahban, M. Dehghanimohammadabadi, Optimizing the Supply Chain Configuration and Production Sales Policies for New Products Over Multiple Planning Horizons, International Journal of Production Economics, 2017
- M. Dehghanimohammadabadi, T.K. Keyser, S.H. Cheraghi, A Novel Iterative Optimization-Based Simulation (IOS) Framework: An Effective Tool to Optimize System’s Performance, Computers & Industrial Engineering, 111, 2017, 1-17
- M. Dehghanimohammadabadi, M. Rezaeiahari, T. Keyser, Simheuristic of Patient Scheduling Using a Table-Experiment Approach – Simio and Matlab Integration Application, Winter Simulation Conference, Las Vegas, NV, 2017
- M. Demirtas, N. Ahmadi, M. Dehghanimohammadabadi, Highlighting the Main Factors of Internet Banking via Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis, ISERC Conference, Anaheim CA, USA, 2016
- M. Dehghanimohammadabadi, T. Keyser, Intelligent Simulation: Integration of SIMIO and MATLAB to Deploy Decision Support Systems to Simulation Environment, Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, 2016
- S.M. Hosseini, M. Dehghanimohammadabadi, A Weighted Monte Carlo Simulation Approach to Risk Assessment of Information Security Management System, International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems, 11(4), 2015, 63-79
- M. Dehghanimohammadabadi, T. Keyser, Tradeoffs Between Objective Measures and Execution Speed in Iterative Optimization-Based Simulation (IOS), Winter Simulation Conference, Huntington Beach CA, USA, 2015

Jul 17, 2023
MIE Alum Receives EuroSim Best Master’s Thesis Award
Industrial engineering alum Sahil Belsare, MS’21, Sahil Belsare, received the Best Master’s Thesis Award at the EuroSim Conference in Amsterdam for his innovative thesis on adaptive job shop scheduling using deep reinforcement learning.

Nov 04, 2022
Featured Galante Fellow: Beatriz Feijóo Gómez
Beatriz Feijóo Gómez is a sixth-year student at Northeastern University, graduating December 2022 with an MS in engineering management and having previously received her BS in civil engineering in May 2021. Feijóo Gómez has always had an affinity for math and science, and growing up one of her favorite things to do was build models of […]

Jan 29, 2021
Featured Galante Fellow: Samuel Benford
Samuel (Sam) Benford is a sixth-year Northeastern engineering student who has been a part of the Galante Engineering Business Program since Spring 2020. He is a part of the PlusOne Program and graduated with his BS in Industrial Engineering in May 2020. Benford will be graduating this upcoming May with his MS in Operations Research. […]
Sep 10, 2020
Faculty and Staff Awards 2020
Congratulations to all the winners of the faculty and staff awards, and to everyone for their hard work and dedication during the 2019-2020 academic school year.

Oct 04, 2016
MIE Faculty & Student win IEOM Awards
MIE Assistant Teaching Professor Mohammad Dehghani was awarded the IEOM Outstanding Track Chair Award and was awarded 2nd place for the IEOM Doctoral Dissertation Competition Award at the International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management (IEOM) in Detroit, Michigan, September 23-25, 2016. PhD student Tasnim Ibn Faiz received 2nd place for the IEOM Graduate Student […]
May 26, 2016
MIE Takes Home Several IISE Awards
Several MIE students and a faculty member received awards at the 2016 Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) Annual Conference held in Anaheim, CA.