Mark Brennan is an assistant professor, logistician, and data scientist at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey’s state university. His teaching and research focuses on retail supply chains and frontline services, with the aim of making basic necessities—food, housing, and healthcare—more available and affordable. Mark is committed to broadening our understanding of how these operations work and sharing this thinking in public forums, including The Hill and New Jersey media outlets, like the Star-Ledger, and top journals across the operations and policy domains. Before joining Rutgers, Mark held operational and analyst roles: running the UN’s food stamps retail operation in Somalia in 2023, working in analytics with a major public ambulance service and at New York City’s largest nonprofit hospital, and researching on studies commissioned by USAID and FEMA. Mark was born and raised in Central Jersey. He earned his PhD from MIT, studied applied mathematics at the University of Limerick (UL) as a 2014 Mitchell Scholar, and completed his undergraduate degree in applied math at Johns Hopkins University. UL hosts an interdisciplinary, industrially focused mathematics department, which motivated him to continue applied work at MIT and now Rutgers. Mark grew up just outside of New Brunswick, NJ, with which the City of Limerick has a long-standing twin-city agreement. He got to know both cities through involvement with their public programs, and has learned about their common policy challenges and successes in areas like economic development.

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