Faculty

NICK VYAS, BS, MBA, Ed.D, University of Southern California

Dr. Nick Vyas, a practitioner in operations management and organizational excellence through the application of Blended Quality Management, AI, ML, RPA, Blockchain, and Data Analytics received his Doctor of Education from USC with his published dissertation on Conceptualization of Higher Education Excellence System (HEES): Use of Advance Data Analytics and Blended Quality Management. A Subject Matter Expert in End-to-End Global Supply Chain Management (GSCM), Vyas has led business transformation for fortune 100 companies. As USC CGSCM’s Executive Director/ Co-founder, Director of MS GSCM and as an Assistant Professor, he was presented with the Golden Apple Award for teaching excellence and recognized as a “Supply Chain Leader” for the APICS Excellence Awards. As a thought leader, he speaks at conferences on global trade, disruptive technology and GSCM. Vyas serves to make GSCM education accessible through the Gift of Knowledge scholarship at USC MS GSCM program and Supply Chain Professionals without Borders. Working closely with students, Vyas consulted for over 25 global operations across various sectors. He integrated technology and directed teams that both optimized speed-to-market and managed cost/quality.

PhD, MS, University of Southern California; MTech, IIT- Madras; BEng, Anna University

Arif Ansari is an expert in the area of data mining, business intelligence, data warehousing, and intelligent systems and technologies, a field in which he has fifteen years of research experience. He has published in IEEE Transactions on Systems and Man and Cybernetics. Professor Ansari received Marshall's Golden Apple Award in 2006.

PhD, Carnegie Mellon University; BA, BS, The Hebrew University

Yehuda Bassok's research interests include supply chain management, design and analysis of purchasing contracts, management of centralized and decentralized inventory systems, and bargaining within supply chains. His research has been published in many top journals, including Management Science and Operations Research. Prior to joining USC, he was on the faculty of Northwestern University and a visiting professor at the University of Washington. Professor Bassok served as chief system analyst of SES, a company that specialized in developing real time data collection and scheduling systems. Professor Bassok has received several teaching awards, including Marshall's Golden Apple Award in 2003.

PhD, UCLA Anderson School of Management; MS & BS, Industrial Engineering, Bilkent University

Murat Bayiz is a Professor of Clinical Data Sciences and Operations at Marshall School of Business. He has more than two decades of combined management consulting and academic experience and specializes in operations strategy.

Murat teaches core and elective at Marshall School’s undergraduate, MS in GSCM, and MBA programs. In recent years he received five Golden Apple awards for teaching excellence and the Evan Thompson award for teaching and learning innovation.

Prior to joining USC, Murat was a management consultant at PRTM Management Consultants (later acquired by PwC) and Kiran Analytics and consulted with high tech companies on supply chain strategy projects.

PhD, UCLA

Richard B. Chase received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles in the field of Operations Management. He is widely known for his work in service design Richard has published papers in journals that include Management Science, Operations Research, Journal of Service Research, Journal of Operations Management, and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management.He is on the editorial boards of Manufacturing & Service Operations Management; an Editorial Advisory boards of Production and Operations Management Journal, Journal of Operations Management, and the Journal of Service Research,and the Cornell Quarterly Dick has consulted with a variety of organizations including IBM, MGM Grand, Westin Hotels, and Aloha Airlines.

PhD, MIT; MBA, Indian Institute of Management - Calcutta; BTech, Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay

Sriram Dasu's research has been published Queuing Systems, Operations Research, and Management Science. He has served as associate editor of Management Science and senior editor of Manufacturing and Service Operations. His research interest are healthcare operations, global health, service operations with focus on customer psychology, and supply chain management.

PhD, Stanford University; MBA, American University in Cairo; BS, Cairo University

Omar El Sawy's expertise is in digital business strategy in dynamic environments and business models for digital platforms. He served as Director of Research for Marshall's Institute for Communications Technology Management from 2001-2007. He is the author of over 100 papers and a seven-time winner of the Society for Information Management's Annual Academic Paper Award - most recently in 2015. He is currently Senior Editor of MIS Quarterly and on several editorial boards. He teaches in the MBA program and received the Marshall School's Evan C. Thompson Award for Teaching and Learning Innovation in 2012. He served as advisor to the United Nations Development Programme in Egypt, and as a Fulbright scholar in Finland. In 2008, he was inducted as the 45th Fellow of the Association of Information Systems for his research contributions.

PhD, MS, Princeton University; BS, University of Science and Technology of China

Yingying Fan is Centennial Chair in Business Administration and Professor in Data Sciences and Operations Department at USC Marshall, Professor of Economics at USC, and an Associate Fellow of USC INET. She received her Ph.D. in Operations Research and Financial Engineering from Princeton University in 2007. She was Lecturer in the Department of Statistics at Harvard University (2007-2008). Her research interests include statistics, data science, machine learning, economics, big data and business applications, and artificial intelligence and blockchain. Her papers have been published in journals in statistics, economics, computer science, information theory, and biology.

PhD, Utah State University; MS, BS, Vilnius University

Robertas Gabrys has research interest in functional data analysis and its applications in environmental sciences, financial econometrics, and space physics; statistical computing, and actuarial mathematics. His work has been published in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of the American Statistical Association, and Austrian Journal of Statistics.

PhD, Stanford University; BSc, BCom, University of Auckland

Gareth James is the Deputy Dean at Marshall. He is an expert on statistical methodology in the areas of functional data analysis and high dimensional statistics, with particular application to marketing. Professor James has published extensively and is a co-author of one of the leading books in the field. He is an elected Fellow of both the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Dr. James has won several research and teaching awards, including two Deans awards for Research Excellence, three Golden Apple awards for his MBA courses and the Provost’s Mentoring Award. He has also served as an Associate Editor for journals such as JASA, JRSSB and OR.

PhD, Princeton University; MS, BS, University of Science and Technology of China

Jinchi Lv is Kenneth King Stonier Chair in Business Administration and Professor in Data Sciences and Operations Department at USC Marshall, Professor of Mathematics at USC, and an Associate Fellow of USC Dornsife Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET). He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Princeton University in 2007. He was McAlister Associate Professor in Business Administration at USC (2016-2019). His research interests include statistics, machine learning, data science, business applications, and artificial intelligence and blockchain. His papers have been published in journals in statistics, economics, business, computer science, information theory, neuroscience, and biology.

PhD, MA, UCLA; BA, Pitzer College

Ann Majchrzak is the USC Associates' Chaired Professor of Business Administration for Marshall. She teaches and does research on digital innovation. She is a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems. She has held concurrent appointments at Esade Business School, Ramon Llull University (Barcelona, Spain) Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, LUISS School of Business and Management (Rome, Italy) and Simon Fraser University (Vancouver Canada) in the areas of Innovation and Organization. She has a 2020 book: Unleashing the Crowd: Collaborative Solutions for Wicked Business and Societal Problems, a Marshall webinar for Covid19 & Small Businesses, and a Tommy Talk on the subject.

PhD, Stanford University; BS, Sharif University of Technology

Hamid Nazerzadeh is an Associate Professor in the Data Sciences and Operations department at USC Marshall School of Business. His research focuses on mechanism design and optimization algorithms and their applications in operations and monetization of online markets. He has worked at Microsoft, Yahoo!, and Google research labs. He is the recipient of Yahoo! Ph.D. Student Fellowship Award (2007), Honorable Mention in George Dantzig Dissertation Awards (2009), Google Faculty Research Award (2013), Marshall Dean's Award for Research Excellence (2014), and INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Prize (2014).

PhD, University of Southern California; MBA, University of Washington; BEng, Waseda University

Hiroshi Ochiumi is an operations management scholar. His research interests include supply chain management, design and analysis of contracts, and behavioral aspects of decision making. He teaches classes on operations management and designing spreadsheet-based business models. Prior to receiving his PhD, Professor Ochiumi worked for Hilti Japan and Goldman Sachs.

PhD, MPhil, MS, New York University; BA, Cornell University

Dawn Porter is a statistician who has published in Management Science and is the coauthor of Basic Econometrics (fifth edition). Prior to joining USC, she served on the faculty at Georgetown University. Professor Porter has consulted for KPMG Consulting, Ginnie Mae, Inc., and Toys R Us.

Ph.D. USC; B.S. Illnois State University

Dr. Francis Pereira received his Ph.D. in Political Economy and Public Policy from the University of Southern California. He has published over 15 articles in such prestigious journals as the Journal of Communications Networks.

PhD, MS, Carnegie Mellon University; MBA, Indian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad; BTech, Indian Institute of Technology - Madras

Raj Rajagopalan's research covers capacity and technology acquisition, supply chain management, and product variety and its impact on operations performance. He has published in journals such as Management Science, Production and Operations Management, and Operations Research. He served as a Department Editor at IIE Transactions, Senior Editor at Production and Operations Management, and as an Associate Editor at Management Science and Operations Research. Professor Rajagopalan has consulted for Johnson and Johnson, Fidelity Investments, and Hewlett Packard. He has taught courses in operations and supply chain management in the MBA and Executive MBA programs.

PhD, MS, Stanford University; BTech, IIT Delhi

Ramandeep S. Randhawa is an operations research scholar whose research interests include designing service systems, revenue management, stochastic modeling, and mechanism and incentive design. His work has been published in journals that include Management Science, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, and Operations Research. Prior to joining the Marshall School, he was a faculty member at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas.

PhD, AB, UC-Berkeley

John Rolph applies statistical methods to public policy issues such as juror systems, medical malpractice, and criminal justice. His research has appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Management Science, and the Journal of the American Statistical Association. Past editor of CHANCE, he is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has chaired National Academy panels on the National Ballistics Database and National Statistics. Professor Rolph has consulted for General Electric, Kaiser Health Plans, and State Farm Insurance.

PhD, MS, Stanford University; BA, UC-Berkeley

Paat Rusmevichientong's research focuses on large-scale stochastic optimization problems, with applications to market systems, supply chains, and revenue management. His research has been published in Management Science, Operations Research, and Mathematics of Operations Research. He received the INFORMS George B. Dantzig Dissertation award in 2003 and the NSF CAREER award in 2008. Prior to joining USC, he was a faculty member in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell University, where he was voted Professor of the Year in 2009 and 2011.

PhD, MA, University of Southern California; BA, University of Michigan

Douglas Shook specializes in the design, implementation and management of information technology, with particular focus on data management, data modeling, and information technology architecture. His academic research centers on the interaction of organizational structure and the effective use of computer-mediated information and communication systems. He has published in Organizational Science and the Journal of Management Studies. Professor Shook received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Marshall Business Student Government in 2003-2004, the "Teaching Has No Boundaries" award from USC for 2001-2002, Marshall's Golden Apple Award in 1996, 1999, 2001, 2005, and 2009.

PhD, Carnegie Mellon University; MBA, University of Delhi; BEng, University of Madras

Ashok Srinivasan's research interests include supply-chain management, nonprofit management, and productivity analysis. His research has appeared in Management Science, Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, and Managerial and Decision Economics, including "Leadership and Competition in Network Supply Chains," with P. Majumder, that appeared in Management Science in June 2008.

PhD, University of British Columbia; MS, BS, University of Zagreb

Greys Sošić holds a PhD from the University of British Columbia, and a master's and a bachelor's degree from the University of Zagreb, Croatia. Her research interests include supply chain management, sustainability, competition and cooperation in supply chains, with emphasis on coalition stability. Her work has been published in Management Science, Operations Research, M&SOM, and POMS. Greys is an Associate Editor for Operations Research, IIE Transactions, and POMS. She has received Dean's Awards for Research Excellence and IISE Transactions Design & Manufacturing Best Paper Award. She has been teaching courses on supply chain management, sustainability, and sourcing.

PhD, AM, University of Southern California

Bert Steece has published in the IEEE, The Accounting Review, and Management Science. He serves on the editorial board of Mathematical Reviews and has served as national program director for the American Statistical Association. He is a coauthor of the Software Cost Estimation with COCOMO II. Professor Steece served as Marshall's Dean of Faculty from 1989 to 2001 and directed the school's doctoral program for nine years. He is a Principal in the Center for Systems and Software Engineering, and has worked as a consultant and expert witness for Southern California Edison, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Cornerstone Research, among others.

PhD, University of Pennsylvania; BS, Peking University

Wenguang Sun is a statistician whose research interests include large-scale multiple testing, high-dimensional inference, statistical decision theory, and causal inference. His research has been published in leading statistical journals including Journal of the American Statistical Association and Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B. Professor has won several research awards including the ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award and Saul Winegrad Dissertation Award from University of Pennsylvania. He received a grant from the National Science Foundation on large-scale multiple testing. Prior to joining USC, he was a faculty member at the Department of Statistics at North Carolina State University.

PhD, MS, Purdue University; BS, College of the City of New York

Jonathan Yormark has published papers in the Journal of the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, Management Science, and OMEGA: The International Journal of Management Science.

PhD, MA, University of Florida; BA, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Leon Yang Zhu (Chu) is an operations management scholar whose research interests include contract and market mechanism design, game theory, and applied optimization. Professor Zhu's papers have been published in the American Economic Review, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Economic Theory, Management Science, Operations Research, and Rand Journal of Economics.

Feng Chen is an operations management scholar. Her research interests include process analysis, supply chain management and supply chain analytics, and experimental study of behavioral impact on operations decision making. She teaches courses of operations management and data analysis for decision making. Feng received her Ph.D. in business administration from University of Southern California.

Richard W. Selby is a Director of Software Products at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems in Redondo Beach, CA. He leads a 250-person software organization and has served in this position since 2001. Previously, he was the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Management Company (PIMCO) in Newport Beach, CA where he managed a 105-person organization for three years. From 1985-1998, he was a Full Professor of Information and Computer Science (with tenure) at the University of California in Irvine, CA (UC Irvine).

Dual Ph.D. in Operations Research & Management Science, 1998, Penn State University / MA in Statistics, 1992, SUNY at Buffalo / <br>B.Sc. in Statistics, 1989, Presidency College of Calcutta, India

Dr. Das Dasgupta is Chief Data Officer at Saatchi & Saatchi, where he leads Data Science Operations and Advanced Analytics. Dr. Dasgupta's past experience includes leadership roles at Amazon, McKinsey, EY, and most recently Viacom. He has over 20 years of experience in helping organizations with their Strategy, Operations, and Data Analytics initiatives. He teaches Business Analytics and Logistics courses at the Marshall School and has Dual Ph.D. Titles in Operations Research and Management Science from Penn State University.