Research Interests

Planning, coordination, and execution in IT-enabled supply chains; design and configuration of infrastructure and service networks; assortment planning, inventory management, and pricing; and mathematical programming and discrete optimization

Featured Publications

• Less is More: Harnessing Product Substitution Information to Rationalize SKUs at Intcomex (with P. Bernales, Y. Guan, P. Souza, M. X. A. Tajes), Interfaces, forthcoming.

  Leadership, Dominance, and Preeminence in a Channel Structure with a Common Retailer (with F. Fang, H. Gurnani), Decision Sciences, forthcoming.

  Review of “Operations Planning — Mixed Integer Optimization Models”. Interfaces, 46(1), 109-110, 2016.

  Designing Fee Tables for Retail Delivery Services by Third-party Logistics Providers (with A. Balakrishnan). IIE Transactions 46(12), 1261-1278, 2014.

  Optimal Integrated Procurement Planning for Multi-division firms, (with A. Balakrishnan). Production and Operations Management 23(10), 1795-1810, 2014.

  Optimal Configuration of a Service Delivery Network: An Application to a Financial Services Provider (with G. A. Meester, A. Mehrotra, and M. J. Seifert). Production and Operations Management 19(6), 725-741, 2010.

  Joint Dynamic Pricing of Multiple Perishable Products under Consumer Choice (with Y. Akcay and S. H. Xu). Management Science 56(8), 1345-1361, 2010.

Teaching and Professional Experience

• Associate Professor, Management, University of Miami School of Business Administration, 2011 - Present
• Assistant Professor, Management, University of Miami School of Business Administration, 2004 - 2011
• Instructor, University of Miami School of Business Administration, 2003 - 2004
• Visiting Researcher, University of Texas, 2002 - 2003
• Instructor, Pennsylvania State University, 1997 - 2002

Specialties

• Operations and supply chain management
• Design, analysis, and implementation of decision support systems
• Mathematical programming and combinatorial methods

Degrees

• Ph.D., Management Science and Operations Management, Industrial Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 2004
• M.S., Business Administration, Pennsylvania State University, 2003
• B.Tech., Naval Architecture, Indian Institute of Technology, 1996

Honors and Awards

• Best Paper in IIE Transactions Scheduling and Logistics, 2016
• UM CIBER International Business Research Grant, 2012
• James W. McLamore Research Grant in Business and Social Sciences, 2006, 2010
• Penn State Alumni Association Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2002
• Center for Supply Chain Research (CSCR) Graduate Research Award, 2002