PhD in Operations Management

• Vishal Agrawal, PhD 2010
  Associate Professor at Georgetown University where his areas of expertise include managerial challenges at the interface of business and the environment, as well as the effect of consumer behavior on operations and new product development.
  
  
• Jennifer Bailey, PhD 2013
  Assistant Professor at Babson College where her areas of expertise include how innovative and entrepreneurial firms manage risk and uncertainty.
  
  
• Marcus Bellamy, PhD 2015
  Assistant Professor at Boston University where his areas of expertise include empirical examination of supply chain management and innovation, as well as supply network risk, network analytics, and visualization.
  
  
• Ioannis Bellos, PhD 2012
  Assistant Professor at George Mason University where his areas of expertise are sustainable operations, service design, and innovation in business models.
  
  
• Janice Carrillo, PhD 1997
  PricewaterhouseCoopers Professor at the Warrington College of Business, University of Florida where her areas of expertise include new product and process development, innovation, sustainability, and technology management.
  
  
• Raul Chao, PhD 2007
  Associate Professor at the Darden School, University of Virginia where his areas of expertise include organization design and incentives in innovation, NPD and R&D.
  
  
• Sanjeev Erat, PhD 2006
  Associate Professor at University of California San Diego where his areas of expertise are co-development and licensing in new product development and technology management.
  
  
• Wayne Fu, PhD 2017
  Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan Dearborn where his areas of expertise include supply chain management and sustainable operations.
  
  
• Jeremy Hutchison-Krupat, PhD 2011
  Assistant Professor at the Darden School, University of Virginia where his areas of expertise include the effective implementation of a firm's innovation strategy.
  
  
• Ximin (Natalie) Huang, PhD 2016
  Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota where her areas of expertise include supply chain management and sustainable operations.
  
  
• Brian Jacobs, PhD 2009
  Associate Professor at Michigan State University where his areas of expertise include sustainability and environmental operations, financial/market value of operations strategies and process improvement strategies.
  
  
• JJ Kovach, PhD 2014
  Assistant Professor at Texas Christian University where his areas of expertise include innovation, environmental operations and operations strategy.
  
  
• Jaeseok Lee, (PhD under completion)
  Assistant Professor at University of Auckland, New Zealand, where his area of expertise is knowledge outsourcing and knowledge competition.
  
  
• Nektarios Oraiopoulos, PhD 2009
  University Lecturer (Assistant Professor) at Judge Business School, Cambridge University where his areas of expertise including group decision-making and collaboration in technology and R&D management.
  
  
• Gulru Ozkan-Seely, PhD 2008
  Assistant Professor at University of Washington-Bothell where her area of expertise includes knowledge management, competition, and new product development.
  
  
• Carrie Queenan, PhD 2007
  Assistant Professor at University of South Carolina where her area of expertise is health care operations and the use of technical systems to enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
  
  
• Narendra Singh, PhD 2015
  Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Indian School of Business where his areas of expertise include new product development and sustainability.
  
  
• Wenli Xiao, PhD 2012
  Assistant Professor at University of San Diego where her areas of expertise include knowledge management, new product development, sustainability, and manufacturing outsourcing.

Empirical analysis of supply chain performance

Specific topics include contracts and global outsourcing; managing risk and failure; alliances; revenue management. Faculty who most contribute to this area include Soumen Ghosh, Manpreet Hora, Vinod Singhal, and Necati Tereyagoglu.

Innovation and technology management

Specific topics include new product development; collaboration and teamwork; entrepreneurship. Faculty who most contribute to this area include Cheryl Gaimon, Karthik Ramachandran, and Morvarid Rahmani.

Sustainable operations

Specific topics include closed loop supply chain management, corporate sustainability, and environmental legislation. Faculty who most contribute to this area of research include Atalay Atasu, Ravi Subramanian, Basak Kalkanci and Beril Toktay.

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Current department editorships

• Beril Toktay (Environment, Energy and Sustainability Department)

• Cheryl Gaimon (Management of Technology Department)
• Vinod Singhal (Supply Chain Management Department)
• Ravi Subramanian (Sustainable Operations Department)

Current associate (senior) editorships:

• Manpreet Hora

• Cheryl Gaimon (Entrepreneurship and Innovation Department)
• Vinod Singhal (Operations Management Department)

• Atalay Atasu
• Vinod Singhal
• Beril Toktay

• Atalay Atasu (Sustainable Operations Department)
• Soumen Ghosh (Empirical Research Department)
• Manpreet Hora (Management of Technology Department; Supply Chain Management Department)
• Karthik Ramachandran (Management of Technology Department)

Atalay Atasu (Faculty)

• Byars Award for Faculty Research Excellence
• Kleindorfer Award in Sustainability, Production and Operations Management Society
• Wickham Skinner Early Career Research Award, Production and Operations Management Society
• Wickham Skinner Best Paper Award, Production and Operations Management Society

• Scheller College of Business’ Ashford Watson Stalnaker Memorial Award for PhD Student Excellence

• Best Paper Award, Product Development and Management Association Annual Conference
• Best Dissertation Award Finalist: “Synchronizing Exploration and Exploitation: Knowledge Creation Challenges in Innovation,” Technology, Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship Section, Institute of Operations Research and Management Science

• Best Student Paper Award, Academy of Management Conference, Orlando, FL
• Best Student Paper Award at International Decision Sciences Institute Annual Conference, Bali, Indonesia

• Young Researcher Prize, Runner Up (Second Place) for the "The Potential of Servicizing as a Green Business Model,'' Energy, Natural Resources and the Environment Section, Institute of Operations Research and Management Science

Janice Carrillo (Former PhD Student)

• Intel PhD Student Fellowship
• Best Student Paper Award, Portland International Conference on Management and Engineering Technology

• Brady Family Award for Faculty Research Excellence
• University Faculty Research Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Advisor, Georgia Tech
• Distinguished Fellow, Production and Operations Management Society
• President, Production and Operations Management Society

• Distinguished Fellow, Decision Sciences Institute

• Brady Family Award for Faculty Teaching Effectiveness
• Class of 1940 W. Roane Beard Outstanding Teaching Award
• Undergraduate Elective Professor of the Year Award and Class of 1934 Course Survey Teaching Effectiveness Award
• Division Chair Elect, Academy of Management Operations and Supply Chain Management Division

• Ashford Watson Stalkner Memorial Prize, Georgia Institute of Technology.
• Runner-up, Sustainable Operations Student Paper Competition, Production and Operations Management Society

• Georgia Power Professor of Excellence
• Treasurer, Behavioral Operations Section, Institute of Operations Research and Management Science

• Chan Hahn Best Paper Award, Operations Management Division, Academy of Management Conference, Orlando FL
• Finalist Best Student Paper Competition, “Sales Force Compensation for Remanufactured Products,” Energy, Natural Resources, and the Environment Section, Institute of Operations Research and Management Science

Carrie Queenan (Former PhD Student)

• POMS College of Service Operations Most Influential Paper Award

• Brady Family Award for Faculty Teaching Effectiveness

• Distinguished Fellow, Production and Operations Management Society

• Paul Kleindorfer Award in Sustainability
• Brady Family Award for Faculty Teaching Excellence
• James F. Frazier, Jr. Award for Teaching Excellence
• Outstanding MBA Core Professor of the Year Award

• Best Paper Competition Winner, Public Sector Operations Research Section, Institute of Operations Research and Management Science

• MBA Elective Professor of the Year Award (twice received)

• Brady Family Award for Faculty Research Excellence
• Ernest Scheller Jr. Award for Service Excellence
• Women of Distinction Award, Georgia Tech
• Management Science Best Paper in Operations Management
• Distinguished Fellow, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Institute of Operations Research and Management Science
• President, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society
• Treasurer, Production and Operations Management Society

Murat Unal (PhD Student)

• One of the two finalists, POMS College of Product Innovation and Technology Management 2017 Student Paper Competition, "Help or hindrance? The role of familiarity in collaborative product development."

Atalay Atasu

• Keynote Plenary, US Chamber of Commerce Workshop on the Circular Economy, Washington DC
• Keynote Plenary, Agency for Science and Technology and Research, Singapore
• Keynote Plenary, Israeli Operations Research Society
• “Making the Case for OM Research on Sustainability and Social Responsibility”, MSOM Blog (9/6/2016)
• “4 Obstacles on the Way to a Circular Economy”, ARCS Blog (7/12/2016), Huffington Post Article (7/15/2016) and MSOM Blog (7/19/2016).
• “3 Ways to fix E-Waste Regulations,” ARCS Blog (4/12/2016) and Huffington Post Article (4/13/2016)

Cheryl Gaimon

• Keynote Plenary, 4th International Conference of Operations and Supply Chain Management, Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China

Manpreet Hora

• “Brand Recovering Consumer Confidence"
• “Shortening the Time Line for a Recall” 
• “Customer Service Gets the B-School Treatment”

Basak Kalkanci

• "The Greening of the Supply Chain"
• "Supply Chain News: CSCMP 2012 Full Review and Comment" Dan Gilmore (10-5-12)

Vinod Singhal

• Keynote Plenary, 30th National Congress on Operational Research and Industrial Engineering, Sabanci University, Turkey
• Keynote Plenary, Electronic News, Seoul, Korea
• Keynote Plenary, 3rd International Conference in Operations and Supply Chain Management, Wuhan, China

Beril Toktay

• Keynote Plenary, Symposium on Innovations and Sustainability, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

• Based on the Supply Chain Management Journal List ranking in journals that are primarily analytically-focused, Georgia Institute of Technology is ranked #6 worldwide.
• Based on the US News Business School Best Grad School Rankings, Scheller College of Business has been ranked #8 (and #3 in public schools) in the Production/Operations discipline.

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