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Sofía Pérez-Guzmán

Assistant Professor, Faculty Fellow at the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems
Email Address
sofia.perez-guzman@ce.gatech.edu
Telephone
404-385-4213
Office Building
Sustainable Education Building (SEB)
Office Room Number
228
Biography

Dr. Sofía Pérez-Guzmán is an Assistant Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering with a courtesy appointment in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. She is also a Faculty Fellow at the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems. Prior to Georgia Tech, she worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Center for Infrastructure, Transportation, and the Environment. She holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Transportation Engineering and M.S. in Economics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Universidad del Valle (in Colombia). Her research program is supported by the National Science Foundation, the Georgia Department of Transportation, the University Transportation Center system, and industry partners.

Research

Dr. Pérez-Guzmán’s research advances freight transportation and supply chain systems through a human-centered lens, with a focus on urban freight, emergency logistics, and urban food systems. She integrates optimization, simulation, and behavioral modeling to inform logistics interventions that address accessibility, sustainability, and operational resilience. Her current research projects focus on enhancing disaster relief distribution operations through behavior-driven decision-making support tools, improving food accessibility and sustainability via freight transportation solutions, and advancing urban and regional freight transportation using freight data, vehicle technology, and policy interventions.

Education
Ph.D. in Transportation Engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute2022
M.S. in EconomicsRensselaer Polytechnic Institute2022
M.S. in Transportation EngineeringRensselaer Polytechnic Institute2020
B.S. in Industrial EngineeringUniversidad del Valle (Colombia)2017

 

Teaching

Dr. Pérez-Guzmán teaches an undergraduate course on multimodal transportation planning and a graduate course on freight transportation modeling.

Distinctions & Awards
  1. Faculty Fellow of the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems at Georgia Tech, 2025-2028.
  2. NSF Sustainable Regional Systems Research Network: Multiscale RECIPES for Sustainable Food Systems Fellow, Nov 2024.
  3. Energy Equity, Environmental Justice & Community Engagement Faculty Fellow from the Center for Sustainable Communities Research and Education (SCoRE), Strategic Energy Institute (SEI), the Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems, the Renewable Bioproducts Institute, and the Social Equity and Environmental Engineering Lab at Georgia Tech, 2023-2024.
  4. Winner of the Elwood S. Buffa Doctoral Dissertation Award Competition of the 2023 Decision Sciences Institute Annual Conference, Nov 2023.
  5. Trailblazer in Engineering Fellowship from Purdue University, 2022.
  6. Civil and Environmental Engineering Rising Stars Scholarship from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021.
  7. First place at the Supply Chain Data Analytics Competition hosted by the Quinlan School of Business at Loyola University Chicago, 2021.
  8. NY State Legacy Leadership Award from the Women in Transportation Seminar (WTS), 2018.
Publications
  1. Pérez-Guzmán S., Ismael A., Amaral J., Holguín-Veras J. (2024) A Behavioral Micro Simulation Case Study: Distribution Center Location. Research in Transportation Business & Management 56, 101193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rtbm.2024.101193
  2. Ding Y., Wang X., Pérez-Guzmán S., Wojtowicz J., Conway A. (2024) Multi-Criteria Assessment Framework for the Feasibility of Cargo Cycle Operation: Using New York City as an Example.  Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 179, 103898. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2023.103898
  3. Holguín-Veras J., Encarnación T., Pérez-Guzmán S., Cantillo V., Calderón O. (2023) The Role and Potential of Trusted Change Agents and Freight Demand Management in Mitigating “Panic Buying” Shortages. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives 19, 100792. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trip.2023.100792
  4. Pérez-Guzmán S., Wang X., Conway A., Arrieta-Prieto M., Ding Y., Zuman G., Escand P., Chen Q. (2022) Methodology for the Feasibility Assessment of an Eco-Transfer System. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 160, 280-297. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2022.04.002
  5. Holguin-Veras J., Ramírez-Ríos D., Pérez-Guzmán S. (2021) Time-Dependent Patterns in Freight Trip Generation.Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice 148, 423-444. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2021.03.029
  6. Holguín-Veras J., Encarnación T., Pérez-Guzmán S., Yang X. (2020) Mechanistic Identification of Freight Activity Stops from Global Positioning System Data. Transportation Research Record 2674 (4), 235-246. https://doi.org/10.1177/0361198120911922
  7. Holguín-Veras J., Encarnación T., Ramirez-Rios D., He X., Kalahasthi L., Pérez-Guzmán S., Sanchez-Díaz I., González-Calderón C. (2020) A Multi-Class Tour-Flow-Model and its Role in Multi-Class Freight Tour Synthesis. Transportation Science 54 (3), 631-650. https://doi.org/10.1287/trsc.2019.0936

In the News

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Building Toward Community-Owned Resilience Hubs

A team from Georgia Tech, including civil and environmental engineering faculty members Joe Bozeman and Sofía Pérez-Guzmán, traveled to the Penn Center on St. Helena Island in South Carolina to work towards developing targeted resilience strategies to cope with environmental disaster events.

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