Ali Gul Qureshi is an associate professor in the Department of Urban Management at Kyoto University, Japan. His basic education is in civil engineering with specializations in transportation engineering, logistics and operations research.

His research interests are related with exact and heuristics optimization of different variants of vehicle routing and facility location problems, their integration in different frameworks such as multi-agent systems, and their application in evaluation of city logistics measures. His recent research also relates with humanitarian logistics after disasters.