Full Name
Laurie Garrow
Job Title
Professor and Associate Director, Center for Urban and Regional Air Mobility
Company
Georgia Tech Supply Chain and Logistics Institute
Speaker Bio
Laurie Garrow is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and serves as Co-Director for the Center for Urban and Regional Air Mobility (CURAM) at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. She is also President of AGIFORS, a nonprofit organization that focus on airline research. She is the first woman and the first academic to serve as President in AGIFORS’ 60-year history.
In her role as Co-Director of CURAM, Dr. Garrow has conducted research in advanced air mobility that has focused on understanding demand for these new modes of transportation. An open-access article published in Transportation Research Part C provides a comprehensive review of academic research in advanced air mobility and identifies potential areas of research. She is also an instructor of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in advanced air mobility, done in collaboration with Munich Aerospace.
In her role as President of AGIFORS, she has published several articles documenting both the airline industry’s response to COVID-19 as well as innovations that were inspired by the crisis and road to recovery. She is a frequent contributor to the media, and has been featured in Barron’s, IEEE Spectrum, and OR/MS Today. She has also been quoted in articles for Bloomberg, CNN Travel, the LA Times, USA Today, and the Washington Post. Most recently, she was interviewed as part of the BBC World Service Inquiry Series.
Dr. Garrow earned her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at Northwestern University, with an emphasis on travel demand modeling and airline passenger behavior. Her dissertation won first prize in the 2004 INFORMS Aviation Applications Section and honorable mention in the 2004 Eric Pas dissertation competition sponsored by the International Association of Travel Behavior Research (IATBR). She also holds bachelors’ degrees from North Carolina State University and masters’ degrees from the University of Texas at Austin. She is the recipient of several research awards, including ASCE’s Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize “for development and integration of advanced discrete choice models of traveler behavior into airline planning, scheduling, and revenue management decision support systems.”
Laurie and her husband, Michael, live in Atlanta with two rescue cats, PeaPod and Smuckers.
In her role as Co-Director of CURAM, Dr. Garrow has conducted research in advanced air mobility that has focused on understanding demand for these new modes of transportation. An open-access article published in Transportation Research Part C provides a comprehensive review of academic research in advanced air mobility and identifies potential areas of research. She is also an instructor of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) in advanced air mobility, done in collaboration with Munich Aerospace.
In her role as President of AGIFORS, she has published several articles documenting both the airline industry’s response to COVID-19 as well as innovations that were inspired by the crisis and road to recovery. She is a frequent contributor to the media, and has been featured in Barron’s, IEEE Spectrum, and OR/MS Today. She has also been quoted in articles for Bloomberg, CNN Travel, the LA Times, USA Today, and the Washington Post. Most recently, she was interviewed as part of the BBC World Service Inquiry Series.
Dr. Garrow earned her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering at Northwestern University, with an emphasis on travel demand modeling and airline passenger behavior. Her dissertation won first prize in the 2004 INFORMS Aviation Applications Section and honorable mention in the 2004 Eric Pas dissertation competition sponsored by the International Association of Travel Behavior Research (IATBR). She also holds bachelors’ degrees from North Carolina State University and masters’ degrees from the University of Texas at Austin. She is the recipient of several research awards, including ASCE’s Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize “for development and integration of advanced discrete choice models of traveler behavior into airline planning, scheduling, and revenue management decision support systems.”
Laurie and her husband, Michael, live in Atlanta with two rescue cats, PeaPod and Smuckers.
