Dr Oscar Pernia is Director of Automation and Digitalization for TIL, the Container Terminal business unit for MSC. Based in Geneva HQ, his focus covers Process Engineering, System Integration, Algorithms & Data Science and Applied Innovation competencies. As such, he is the Technical Lead for Automated Terminal Design & Deployment, as well as different strategic initiatives to empower efficiency, safety and sustainability through Automation/Digitalization.
His education was on Telecommunications Engineering, and he holds an Industrial Engineering PhD, where he focused on Algorithms Design applied to Marine Operations Optimization – during the last 20 years he has accumulated extensive experience in Container Shipping, covering technology solutions across all processes in the ocean supply chain, with a specific focus in Ports & Terminals.
