I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
I hold a Ph.D. in Operations Management from INSEAD.
I am on the job market 2024-2025. Curriculum Vitae
My research investigates how firms strategically leverage technological innovation to optimize business processes, enhance customer experiences, promote social responsibility and improve lives of underserved communities.
I am particularly interested in frameworks that consider strategic factors in the adoption and utilization of technology.
I focus on responsibility issues in the diamond supply chain; on supply design in digital collectibles markets; on rural health access points for underserved communities; and on personalized recommendations in restaurants with digital menu.
I will be presenting at INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, US
“Does Blockchain Facilitate Responsible Sourcing? An Application to the Diamond Supply Chain“
Date: 20th Oct 2024, 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM PDT
Location: Summit - 348; Session: Sustainable Sourcing, Consumer Response, and Environmental Risks
Research
Working papers
Do Credible Certificates Facilitate Responsible Sourcing? An Application to the Diamond Supply Chain (link) (abstract)
Coauthors: Sameer Hasija
Status: reject and resubmit in Management Science
Accepted by 2021 M&SOM SIG Conference
Nonfungible Digital Collectibles: How to Match Supply With Demand in the Metaverse (link) (abstract)
Coauthors: Pavel Kireyev
Recipient of the Ripple Foundation Blockchain Research Initiative Fund
Work in progress
Rural Health Access Points for Underserved Communities in Illinois state
Coauthors: Ujjal Mukherjee, Sridhar Seshadri
Preparing for submission
Optimal Manufacturer Investment in Supplier with Finance Constraints
Coauthors: Ujjal Mukherjee, Sridhar Seshadri
Preparing for submission
May I Suggest What You Select? Personalized Recommendations in a Restaurant (abstract)
Coauthors: Pavel Kireyev
Data collected and analyzed
The Effect of Display Position on Food Recommendation Effectiveness: Evidence From Field Experiment in a Restaurant
Data collected
Do Recommendations Guide or Distract? Exploring Customer Browsing in a Restaurant
Data collected
Teaching
Social Media Strategy (Lecturer, undergraduate, elective, ~110 students, taught twice)
Latest score – 4.73
In the List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent By Their Students
Topics: Mental Health Impact, Social Media ROI, Web 2.0, Organic Search, Google Ads, Data Analytics
Production and Operations Management (MBA, core, ~ 150 students, taught twice)
Latest score – 4.63
Topics: Business Model Innovation, Inventory Planning, Production, Queuing and Newsvendor
Uncertainty, Data and Judgements (MBA, core, ~ 150 students, taught twice)
Latest score – 5.0
Topics: Hypothesis Testing, Regression and Forecasts
Org 2.0: People Analytics (MBA, elective, ~ 15 students, working language Python)
Topics: HR analytics, A/B testing, Clinical Trials, Causal Inference
Data Science for Business (MBA, elective, ~ 200 students, working language R)
Latest score – 4.50
Topics: Time Series Models, Logistic regression, Classification, Segmentation and Clustering
Service
Organizing Committee Member of Supply Chain Management Conference at UIUC, 2024
Organizing Committee Member of Midwest Healthcare Management Conference, 2024
Website Creator of Healthcare Analytics Group at UIUC, 2023
Organizing Committee Member of Midwest Healthcare Management Conference, 2023