Oriana Calderón

Assistant Professor

Biography

Oriana Calderón earned her PhD in transportation engineering in 2023 from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). She also holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Universidad ICESI and bachelor’s degrees in economics and industrial engineering from Universidad del Valle in Colombia. Her primary research goal is to enhance the sustainability of urban freight systems by studying supply chain agent behavior, for both private and societal benefits. She has experience as a postdoctoral research associate at RPI, where one of the most important projects she worked on was the “Super Truck 3 – Volvo Zero Emission Freight Future” with Volvo, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the U.S. Department of Energy. Calderón has been a lecturer in the Industrial Engineering Department at Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia, and a teaching assistant in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at RPI. She also has industry experience, having held roles in different areas of the supply chain, including logistics. She is the Treasurer of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) Latin America & Caribbean (LAC) Chapter and the Junior VP of Communications for the Women of Operations Research and Management Science (WORMS).

Education

• PhD Transportation Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2023
• MBA Universidad ICESI, 2015
• BS Industrial Engineering, Universidad del Valle, Colombia, 2006
• BS Economics, Universidad del Valle, Colombia, 2005