Information & Operations Management

IOM research examines how systems and activities need to be designed to manage the flow of goods, services and knowledge assets in firms. This field is ever more critical as constant and rapid changes in disruptive technologies, along with globalization, offer innovative ways to source new products and services.

Operations Management

• How companies can develop systems and processes to optimize delivery of products and services
• Analysis of supply chains of global organizations, particularly:
  ·· Strategic procurement
  ·· Outsourcing
  ·· Inventory theory
  ·· Distribution and logistics
  ·· Forecasting
  ·· Dynamic pricing
  ·· Bargaining

Business Statistics

• High-dimensional regression analysis

• High-dimensional covariance

• Functional data analysis

• Non-linear regression

• Applications of statistics in marketing and finance

Collegial, Supportive and Expansive

The IOM Ph.D. program is research-focused, collegial, supportive and highly interactive. Ph.D. students are viewed as “junior colleagues” and are encouraged to become involved in academic research with faculty early in their doctoral studies through the following programs and initiatives:

• Low student-to-faculty ratio coupled with the faculty’s “open-door” policy leading to frequent and meaningful collaborations


• Presentations by invited faculty from around the world


• Internal brown-bag seminars and colloquia with other research-oriented universities in Southern California

Faculty Coordinator

Greys Sosic, Professor of Information and Operations Management

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Learn more about operations management program requirements, research, placements, and students.