CEDILLO CAMPOS, MIGUEL GASTON

Gaston Cedillo is a French-Mexican Radcliffe Killam Distinguished Faculty member at the A.R. Sanchez, Jr. School of Business at Texas A&M International University (TAMIU) and European Union Ambassador for the Implementation of the "Physical Internet". He previously served as an Associate Professor and Head of Research at Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM). From 2013 to 2024, he was the Technical Director of the IMT-National Laboratory for Transportation and Logistics Systems, which he proposed, designed, and co-founded on April 10, 2015, with financial support from the Mexican Institute of Transportation (IMT) and the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT). Dr. Cedillo is the WCRT (World Conference on Transport Research Society) representative for Mexico.

Dr. Cedillo-Campos has also been a Visiting Professor, Researcher, and Speaker in Transportation and Logistics at several institutions, including the MIT-Zaragoza Logistics Center, Georgia Tech-Panama, Centre de Recherche Sur le Transport et la Logistique (CRET-LOG), the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the Autonomous University of Nuevo León (UANL), and the National University of Colombia. In 2008, he established Mexico’s first supply chain research center, the Supply Chain Research and Development Center (CiDeCS), at Tecnológico de Monterrey’s Guadalajara Campus. In 2012, he received the National Logistics Award delivered by the highest-level academic institutions and federal public agencies. Later the same year, the Technological Innovation Award from the Autonomous University of Nuevo León. Furthermore, in 2019, he received the InterTraffic Latin America Award for co-leading, with Prof. Jan Fransoo, the design and operation of Latin America’s first Urban Logistics Living Lab. The first results were published in the prestigious journal Transportation Research Part A (2022).

With over 20 years of experience developing technological solutions for transportation, logistics, and supply chain engineering, Dr. Cedillo-Campos frequently speaks at companies and academic organizations. He advocates strongly for collective intelligence in transportation science, having initiated, co-founded, and served as the first president of the Mexican Association of Logistics and Supply Chain.

Dr. Cedillo-Campos holds a degree in civil engineering and two master's degrees—one in Transportation Engineering and one in Business Logistics. He earned his PhD in Transportation (Logistics Systems) with honors from the University of Paris, France, in 2004. In 2010, he developed a dynamic analysis method to study the propagation of the "Cross-Border Effect" in freight flows and its impact on the logistics value of transportation infrastructure. Currently, he leads research on freight fluidity. Recognized as an expert in the field, he has taught at prestigious institutions in Mexico, Spain, France, Colombia, Panama, and Chile. As the Scientific Chair of the International Congress on Logistics and Supply Chain (CiLOG), he organizes a premier event that influences transportation and logistics development in Latin America.

Professor Cedillo-Campos is often consulted by government agencies and leading Latin American companies across civil engineering, manufacturing, retail, transportation, and logistics sectors. He is also an active entrepreneur, having founded and co-founded three technology-based organizations.

He has authored or co-authored numerous articles in top-tier journals, including Transport Policy, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Computers and Industrial Engineering, and Applied Energy. Additionally, he serves as an Area Editor (Transport) for the journal “Computers & Industrial Engineering.” Dr. Cedillo-Campos is a full member of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Honor Society.