Supply Chain/Operations Management Faculty

The Supply Chain/ Operations Management faculty represent the best minds from all management disciplines. This is what distinguishes our program from other business schools. The Jindal School of Management’s diverse faculty provides a broader perspective about what a global education should be. In addition to their teaching responsibilities, our faculty maintains a wide range of activities in areas such as research and leading conferences and workshops, thus contributing to the advancement of business management knowledge.

Alborz, Shawn, PhD (University of Melbourne)
Assistant Dean and Director of Operations/Supply Chain Management Programs

Research Interests
Operations management, outsourcing, project management
Bensoussan, Alain, PhD (University of Paris)
Ashbel Smith Professor

Research Interests
Risk management, introductory control, stochastic control, impulse control, differential games
Cakanyildirim, Metin, PhD (Cornell University)
Associate Professor

Research Interests
Stochastic processes, capacity planning, forecasting, production planning and scheduling
Chandrasekaran, Ramaswamy, PhD (University of California, Berkeley)
Ashbel Smith Professor

Research Interests
Mathematical programming, combinatorial optimization, scheduling, location theory, game theory
Dawande, Milind, PhD (Carnegie Mellon University)
Ashbel Smith Professor and Area Coordinator

Research Interests
Supply chain management, discrete models in operations
Deluke, Gene, MS (Southern Methodist University)
Senior Lecturer

Research Interests
Supply chain management, production management
Flannery, Carol, EdD (Texas A&M University)
Senior Lecturer

Research Interests
Quantitative Methods
Janakiraman, Ganesh, PhD (Cornell University)
Associate Professor

Research Interests
Inventory theory and mathematical models of inventory
Lutze, Holly, PhD (Stanford University)
Clinical Professor

Research Interests
Inventory control, supply chain management, supplier selection, production planning
Muharremoglu, Alp, PhD (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Associate Professor

Research Interests
Supply Chain Management, Inventory Management
Niu, Shun-Chen, PhD (University of California at Berkeley)
Professor

Research Interests
Queuing theory, polling models, stochastic scheduling, reliability theory
Ozer, Ozalp, PhD (Columbia University)
Professor

Research Interests
Supply chain management, distribution channel management
Rajamani, Divakar, PhD (University of Windsor)
Clinical Professor

Research Interests
Supply chain management, product lifecycle management, Lean and Six Sigma
Ramanathan, Kannan, PhD (University of Illinois)
Senior Lecturer

Research Interests
Property rights and Six Sigma
Sethi, Avanti, PhD (Carnegie Mellon University)
Senior Lecturer

Research Interests
Facility layout, inventory control, scheduling
Sethi, Suresh, PhD (Carnegie Mellon University)
Eugene McDermott Chair of Operations Management

Research Interests
Supply chain management, optimal pricing and advertising, inventory, optimal control
Sriskandarajah, Chelliah, PhD (National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble)
Ashbel Smith Professor

Research Interests
Production planning and scheduling, supply chain management, logistics
Stecke, Kathryn, PhD (Purdue University)
Ashbel Smith Professor

Research Interests
Production/distribution integration, flexible manufacturing, production planning and scheduling
Wiorkowski, John, PhD (University of Chicago)
Professor and Vice Provost of UT Dallas

Research Interests
Forecasting, time series, analysis of growth curve, applications of statistical theory and methods
Zhang, Jun, PhD (Carnegie Mellon University)
Assistant Professor

Research Interests
Interfaces of operations, supply chain flexibility, multi–channel services systems

Adjunct Faculty

Brussolo, Monica, PhD (The University of Texas at Dallas)
Adjunct Senior Lecturer

Research Interests
Development economics, inequality and urban issues, international migration
Hogan, James, MBA (The University of Texas at Tyler)
Adjunct Lecturer

Research Interests
Global purchasing and sourcing
Johnston, Walter, PhD (The University of Texas)
Adjunct Lecturer

Research Interests
Statistics
Kaan, Levent, PhD (Southern Methodist University)
Adjunct Lecturer

Research Interests
Operations research, inventory planning and optimization
Mehta, Sanjay, PhD (Purdue University)
Adjunct Lecturer

Research Interests
Scheduling, operations management
Sabri, Ehap, PhD (University of Cincinnati)
Adjunct Lecturer

Research Interests
Lean and agile value chain, supply chain management