Camilo Andrés Mora Quiñones, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics
- Cambridge MA
Dr. Mora-Quiñones advances supply chain cybersecurity and uses technology to improve informal logistics and support underserved workers.
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Dr. Mora-Quiñones' research in supply chain cybersecurity examines how cyber threats, such as ransomware, data breaches, and attacks on digital logistics systems, translate into operational vulnerabilities and disruptions across interconnected supply networks. He studies how these risks propagate through suppliers, logistics providers, and information systems, often amplifying localized incidents into system-wide impacts. His work seeks to help organizations assess their exposure, prioritize critical risks, and strengthen their preparedness, resilience, and recovery capabilities through data-driven risk assessment frameworks, scenario analysis, and decision-support tools.
Through the Informal Logistics Initiative, Dr. Mora-Quiñones studies workers and companies that perform essential logistics functions but are often overlooked in supply chain research, data, technology, and public policy. His work explores how operational innovation, artificial intelligence, and accessible digital tools can improve productivity, safety, working conditions, economic inclusion, and livelihoods for independent delivery workers, micro-carriers, and other underserved logistics actors.
Dr. Mora-Quiñones combines applied research, field experimentation, artificial intelligence, and data-driven methodologies to address consequential supply chain challenges with practical relevance for industry and society. His broader research trajectory at MIT also includes collaborations with the MIT Sustainable Supply Chain Lab and the MIT Low Income Firms Transformation (LIFT) Lab, where he continues to contribute to ongoing research.
Mora-Quiñones holds a Ph.D. in Engineering Sciences, specializing in last-mile logistics and urban freight transportation, as well as an M.Sc. in Engineering Sciences and a B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from Tecnológico de Monterrey, where he graduated with high distinction. He received the 2020 Best Master’s Thesis in Mexico Award from the Mexican Logistics and Supply Chain Association in recognition of his contributions to logistics and supply chain research.
Research Focus
Future Logistics & Infrastructure Systems
Shaping freight, mobility, and infrastructure systems that enable global supply networks.
Critical Systems & Supply Network Resilience
Ensuring continuity, preparedness, and mission assurance under disruption and geopolitical volatility.
Areas of Expertise
Education
Tecnológico de Monterrey
PhD
Engineering Sciences
2024
Tecnológico de Monterrey
MS
Logistics, Materials, and Supply Chain Management
2020
Tecnológico de Monterrey
BSc
Industrial Engineering
2010
Languages
- Spanish
- English
Media Appearances
"Rush hours are no longer distinguishable in cities," notes an MIT professor; urban logistics challenges are growing globally
El Universal (translated from Spanish) online
2025-03-26
The challenges of the urban logistics sector have been growing in recent months and years, according to Camilo Mora, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ), as there are more and more vehicles on the road.
Advancing Last-Mile Efficiency: Insights from POMS 2024 Conference
MIT LIFT Lab online
2024-04-29
The POMS 2024 conference, held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, served as a platform for groundbreaking research collaborations, one of which was presented by former LIFT Lab PhD visiting student Camilo Mora from Monterrey Tech Campus Monterrey. In collaboration with the MIT LIFT Lab, Camilo presented his research on Last-Mile Efficiency in Emerging Markets: Factors Influencing Dwell Time for Nanostore Deliveries.
Tec and MIT collaborate to help micro and small businesses
Tecnológico de Monterrey (translated from Spanish) online
2020-11-30
More than 100 students from the Mexico City , State of Mexico , Puebla, Monterrey, Laguna and Santa Fe campuses are participating under the supervision of professors Jaime Palma, Iván Arana, Claudia Garay, Ileana Ruíz, Fabiola Lima and Camilo Mora.
Tec professor awarded for Best Master's Thesis in Mexico 2020 Award Winner! Tec Professor, author of the best thesis in Logistics in the country
Tecnológico de Monterrey (translated from Spanish) online
2020-06-11
Camilo Andrés Mora Quiñones , professor at the School of Engineering and Sciences of Tec de Monterrey Santa Fe campus , won the award " Best Master's Thesis in Mexico 2020".
MIT Global Scale Network Latin America – Improving the SCM in small firms with MIT GeneSys Project
MIT Low Income Firms Transformation Lab online
2019-03-01
During the workshop for MIT Global Scale Network Latin America, Dr. Josué Velázquez Martínez and Dr. Cansu Tayaksi presented an overview of MIT GeneSys project and the partnership with several universities in Latin America to improve the supply chain management practices in small firms.
Research Papers
Tax privacy concerns hamper digitization of the nanostore channel
Decision SciencesRafael Escamilla, Prisca Brosi, Jan C Fransoo, Camilo Mora‐Quiñones, Christopher Mejía‐Argueta
2025-06-01
Various entities, such as startups, suppliers, and governments, face substantial difficulties in convincing nanostore shopkeepers to adopt digital technologies. Given the informal status of nanostores, we posit that shopkeepers experience Tax Privacy Concerns from their operational records potentially becoming transparent to the tax authorities, which hampers their inclination to digitize. Through the application of a survey and vignette experiments in the field with hundreds of shopkeepers across three cities in Latin America, we find consistent evidence for the negative role of Tax Privacy Concerns, above and beyond shopkeepers' Willingness to Share Data with various entities, Trust in the government and other entities, and general Privacy Concerns.
Assessing the impact of loading-unloading zones in emerging markets: Evidence from Mexico
Transportation Research Part D: Transport and EnvironmentCamilo A Mora-Quiñones, Jan C Fransoo, Josué C Velázquez-Martínez, Leopoldo Eduardo Cárdenas-Barrón, Rafael Escamilla
2024-12-01
We investigate the impact of dedicated loading–unloading zones (LUZs) in emerging markets, focusing on their effects on air quality and noise pollution. We conduct a field experiment in downtown area of Zapopan, Mexico. We use a quasi-experimental difference-in-difference approach to analyze changes in air quality and noise pollution before and after implementing the dedicated LUZs. The results indicate a significant reduction of up to 3.55% in CO2 levels in the mornings and a 14% decrease in noise following the establishment of LUZs.
Decarbonizing Urban Logistics: Perspectives for Low- and Middle-Income Countries
SSRNJan C. Fransoo, Camilo Andrés Mora-Quiñones
2021-10-18
What initiatives abate urban logistics’ carbon emissions more efficiently and effectively? Numerous theoretical and practical studies address the challenge of reducing carbon emissions from the logistics sector while ensuring the flow of goods to highly urbanized areas. In this position paper, we present and discuss various initiatives seeking to abate urban logistics carbon emissions in the domains of (1) reducing the demand for freight transport or moderating/arresting its growth, (2) shifting freight to lower-carbon transportation modes, (3) optimizing vehicle loading, (4) increasing vehicle energy efficiency, and (5) switching to lower-carbon energy sources. The solutions that we discuss herein range from regulatory to operational and technological.
The coexistence of nanostores within the retail landscape: A spatial statistical study for Mexico city
SustainabilityCamilo Andrés Mora-Quiñones, Leopoldo Eduardo Cárdenas-Barrón, Josué C Velázquez-Martínez, Karla M Gámez-Pérez
2021-09-24
This paper aims to improve understanding of the grocery retail landscape in a megacity in the developing world. Over the past ten years (i.e., 2010–2020), retail in the grocery sector in Mexico City has changed significantly. The fast growth of chain convenience stores (CCS) and the financial stability of modern channel stores (MCS) has provoked speculation about whether nanostores (i.e., mom-and-pop stores) are going to disappear or if they will endure. In developing countries nanostores dominate the grocery retail market, providing a source of income to millions of families. While some studies suggest that nanostores will keep growing in number because they are more likely to be attached to growing middle- and low-income consumers in developing countries, our results show that high- and medium–high-income consumers purchase at nanostores too.
Awards
Mención Honorífica de Excelencia
Issued by Tecnológico de Monterrey
Jun 2020
Master Dissertation Award in Logistics 2020
Issued by Asociación Mexicana de Logística
Oct 2020
