Diego Klabjan
Diego Klabjan
Associate Professor
E-mail: d-klabjan@northwestern.edu
Phone: (847) 491 - 0663
Fax: (847) 491 - 8005
Office: Tech M239
Website: Diego's Homepage
Education
Ph. D. in Industrial Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology, 1999
B.S. in Mathematics University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1994
Field(s) of Expertise/Research Area(s)
Biography
Klabjan is an associate professor at the Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences. After obtaining his doctorate from the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering of the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1999, in the same year he joined the University of Illinois as an assistant professor in the former department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering. After returning from his sabbatical leave of absence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 2006 he joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In summer 2007 he accepted an associate professor position at Northwestern University. He is the recipient of the first prize of the 2000 Transportation Science Dissertation Award and the Preseren's award for the outstanding undergraduate thesis. He is a former president of the INFORMS Aviation Applications Section and he is actively involved in AGIFORS.
Research
Diego Klabjan's research is focused on airline management, operations management and supply chain optimization, production planning, integer programming, and parallel computing. Among other companies, he has collaborated with United Airlines, American Airlines, Sabre Holdings, FedEx Express, NASA, and SembCorp Logistics.
Honors and Awards
Awards
- Preseren’s Award for the Best Undergraduate Thesis, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1994.
- First Price 2000 Transportation Science Section Dissertation Prize, INFORMS, San Antonio, 2000.
Awards by Students

