Chelsea C. White received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan (UM) in 1974 in Computer, Information, and Control Engineering. He has served on the faculties of the University of Virginia (1976- 1990) and UM (1990-2001). He currently is the H.Milton and Carolyn J. Stewart School Chair of the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering and holds the Schneider National Chair of Transportation and Logistics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he is the Director of the Trucking Industry Program (TIP) and the former Executive Director of The Logistics Institute. He has previously served as department chair of Systems Engineering at the University of Virginia, department chair of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the UM, and Senior Associate Dean at the UM.

He serves on the boards of directors for Con-way, Inc. (a Fortune 500 company, traded on the NYSE), the ITS World Congress, TLI-Asia Pacific, and the Bobby Dodd Institute. He is a former past President and member of the ITS Michigan Board of Directors, a former member of the board of ITS America, and has served as a member of the advisory boards of Kinetic Computer Corporation, Billerica, MA, and of CenterComm Corporation, San Diego, CA. He is a member of the International Academic Advisory Committee of the Laboratory of Complex Systems and Intelligence Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.