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Md Mashum Billal
BSc, MSc, PhD

Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science

Contact information

2000 Simcoe Street North
Oshawa, Ontario L1G 0C5
Office: ACE 2025

905.721.8668 ext. 2212
905.721.3370 (fax)

mashum.billal@ontariotechu.ca
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mQYdqwMAAAAJ&hl=en

Research topics

  • Operations Research
  • Renewable Energy Modeling and Optimization
  • Machine Learning
  • Supply Chain Analytics
  • Biomass and Bioenergy
  • Decision Analytics
  • Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
  • Techno-Economic Analysis (TEA)

Education

Ph.D., Engineering Management, Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, 2025
M.Sc., Industrial & Production Engineering, Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology, 2017
B.Sc., Industrial & Production Engineering, Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology, 2014

Research and expertise

Publications and presentations

  • Selected publications and presentations
    For an updated list of publications, please visit the Google Scholar Profile.

    1. Billal, M. M., Kumar, A., 2025. Forecasting residential and non-residential solid waste generation, disposal quantities using three machine learning approaches, Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, 19(6), 2179-2196.

    2. Billal, M.M., Sebastian, R.M., Kumar, A., 2025. Developing a GIS-based MINLP framework for optimizing the waste-to-energy supply chain with plant-scale considerations. Journal of Cleaner Production 490, 144709.

    3. Sebastian, R.M., Billal, M.M., Kumar, A., 2025. The development of a framework to assess waste and biomass availability: A case study for Canada. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 215, 108170.

    4. Billal, M.M., Sebastian, R.M., Kumar, A., 2024. The development of an integrated GIS-based optimization framework for power generation from municipal solid waste-to-energy facilities. Journal of Cleaner Production 434, 139865.

    5. Islam, M.S., Sebastian, R.M., Kurian, V., Billal, M.M., Kumar, A., 2023. The development of a framework for the selection of optimal sites for the location of municipal solid waste to valued facilities through the integration of a GIS and a fuzzy AHP. Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining 17(6), 1622-1638.

    6. Patel, P., Vaezi, M., Billal, M.M., Kumar, A., 2023. Development of data-intensive techno-economic models for the assessment of biomass, waste heat, and MSW integrated waste-to-electricity facility. Resources, Conservation & Recycling Advances 20, 200188.

    7. Priyanka, T.J., Atre, S., Billal, M.M., Arani, M., 2023. Techno-economic analysis of a renewable-based hybrid energy system for utility and transportation facilities in a remote community of Northern Alberta. Cleaner Energy Systems 6, 100073.

    8. Priyanka, T.J., Mily, M.A., Asadujjaman, M., Arani, M., Billal, M.M., 2022. Impacts of work-family role conflict on job and life satisfaction: comparative study among doctors, engineers and university teachers. PSU Research Review 8 (1), 248-271.

    9. Billal. M.M., Maleki, M., 2021. Presenting the Multi-Objective Optimization Model of Search and Rescue Network. International Journal of Science and Engineering Applications, 10(04), 40-44.

    10. Billal. M.M., Hossain, M.M., 2020. Multi-objective optimization for multi-product multi-period four-echelon supply chain problems under uncertainty. Journal of Optimization in Industrial Engineering, 13(1),1-17.

    11. M. M. Ahmed, S. M. S. Iqbal, T. J. Priyanka, M. Arani, M. Momenitabar, and M. M. Billal, An Environmentally Sustainable Closed-Loop Supply Chain Network Design Under Uncertainty: Application of Optimization. Intelligent Decision Science. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1301, 2021. Springer, Cham.

    12. Abir AS, Bhuiyan IA, Arani M, Billal, M.M., Multi-Objective Optimization for Sustainable Closed-Loop Supply Chain Network Under Demand Uncertainty: A Genetic Algorithm. International Conference on Data Analytics for Business and Industry, IEEE Xplore. 26 to 27 October 2020, Kingdom of Bahrain.

    13. Billal, M. M., Baritto, M., Nasim, S.M.M., Sultana, R.A., Qureshi, A.J. Supporting Tool for The Transition of Existing Small and Medium Enterprises Towards Industry 4.0. International Conference on Data Analytics for Business and Industry, IEEE Xplore. 26 to 27 October 2020, Sakheer, Bahrain.

    14. Billal M. M., Mukherjee A., Kumar A., Integration of agricultural and municipal solid waste in bio-hubs in Canada, IEA Bioenergy and Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), April. 2025. ISBN: 979-12-80907-64-6, https://www.ieabioenergy.com/blog/publications/integration-of-agricultural-and-municipal-solid-waste-in-bio-hubs-in-canada/