Sridhar R. Tayur

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Ford Distinguished Research Chair; Professor of Operations Management

Teaching and Research Interests:

• Supply chain management, managing uncertainty and complexity. Incentives and emerging technologies in healthcare, clean energy and digital media. Combating counterfeiters and human traffickers.

Useful Links:

• Vita
• Bio
• Transcript of OrganJet podcast (PDF)
• SmartOps Corporation: Forging Smart Alliance
• Company Founded: SmartOps Corporation (2000)
• Company Founded: OrganJet Corporation (2011)
• Monetizing the Value Created by OR (PDF)
• Interview: OM in a Capitalist Society
• Invited paper: Planned Spontaneity for better Product Availability

Published Papers: 

• Production Planning with Patterns
  Operations Research.
  (with: M. Mehrotra, Milind Dawande, Srinagesh Gavirneni, M. Demirci)
  
  
• Improved Inventory Targets in the Presence of Limited Historical Demand Data
  Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 13(3), 2011; 297-309.
  (with: Bahar Biller, Alp Akcay)
  
  
• Scheduling of Dynamic In-Game Advertising
  Operations Research.
  (with: J. Turner, Alan Scheller-Wolf)
  
  
• Quantity Discounts Under Demand Uncertainty
  Management Science.
  (with: N. Altintas, Feryal Erhun)
  
  
• Reliable Due Date Seating for a Two Class MTO System
  Operations Research.
  (with: Roman Kapuscinski)
  
  
• Effective Heuristics for Multi-Product Partial Shipment Models
  Operations Research.
  (with: Milind Dawande, Srinagesh Gavirneni)
  
  
• Building Efficient Product Portfolios at John Deere
  Operations Research.
  (with: Alan Scheller-Wolf, Tallys Yunes, Dominic Napolitano)
  
  
• Structural Properties and a Heuristic for a Kanban Controlled Serial Manufacturing System
  Management Science.
  
  
• An Algebraic Geometry Algorithm for Scheduling in Presence of Setups and Correlated Demands
  Mathematical Programming.
  (with: R. Thomas, N. Natraj)
  
  
• A Randomized Algorithm for Optimizing over Certain Convex Sets
  Mathematics of Operations Research.
  (with: Ravi Kannan, J. Mount)
  
  
• Sensitivity Analysis for Base Stock Levels in Multi-Echelon Production-Inventory System
  Management Science.
  (with: P. Glasserman)
  
  
• Managing Stochastic Multi-Product Systems: Models, Measures and Analysis
  Operations Research.
  (with: Ravi Anupindi)
  
  
• A Capacitated Production-Inventory Model with Periodic Demand
  Operations Research.
  (with: Roman Kapuscinski)
  
  
• A New Algebraic Geometry Algorithm for Integer Programming
  Management Science.
  (with: D. Bertsimas, G. Perakis)
  
  
• Managing Broader Product Lines Through Delayed Differentiation Using Vanilla Boxes
  Management Science.
  (with: Jay Swaminathan)
  
  
• Variability Reduction Through Operations Reversal
  Management Science.
  (with: Roman Kapuscinski)
  
  
• Value of Information in Capacitated Supply Chains
  Management Science.
  (with: Roman Kapuscinski, Srinagesh Gavirneni)
  
  
• Development of a Rapid-Response Supply Chain at Caterpillar
  Operations Research, 2000.
  (with: Alan Scheller-Wolf, Uday Rao)
  
  

Working Papers: 

• An Inventory Theoretic Approach to Rental Systems
  February, 2013.
  (with: Bahar Biller, Vince Slaugh)
  
  
• Data-Driven Newsvendor: Probabilistic Error Bounds When Demand is Temporally Dependent
  February, 2013.
  (with: Bahar Biller, Alp Akcay)
  
  
• Maximizing Demand Fulfillment Probability Under Parameter Uncertainty
  February, 2013.
  (with: Bahar Biller, Canan Corlu)
  
  
• Equal-Fractile Heuristic: New Results and Insights
  August, 2012.
  (with: Bahar Biller, Alp Akcay)
  
  
• Chance Constrained Optimization with Multivariate Johnson Translation System: A Copula Approach
  July, 2012.
  (with: Bahar Biller, Alp Akcay)
  
  
• Managing Inventory with Limited History of Intermittent Demand
  January, 2012.
  (with: Bahar Biller, Alp Akcay)
  
  
• Imaging Room and Beyond: The Underlying Economics Behind Physician's Test Ordering Behavior in Outpatient Services
  January, 2012.
  (with: T. Dai, Mustafa Akan)
  
  
• Combating Strategic Counterfeiters in Licit and Illicit Supply Chains
  September, 2011.
  (with: Soo-Haeng Cho, X. Fang)
  
  
• A Simulation-Based Approach to Capturing Autocorrelated Demand Parameter Uncertainty in Inventory Management
  September, 2011.
  (with: Bahar Biller, Alp Akcay)
  
  
• β-Guaranteed Joint Service Levels
  September, 2011.
  (with: Bahar Biller)
  
  

Awards:

• Marschak Colloquium - 2012
• INFORMS Fellow - 2012
• Best Paper Award, Healthcare Operations Management (POMS) - 2012
• Plenary Speaker, MSOM Conference - 2008
• Plenary Speaker, INFORMS Conference - 2007
• Carnegie Science Center Award for Innovation in Information Technology - 2007
• Franz Edelman Competition, Finalist - 2004
• President of MSOM/INFORMS - 2001-2002
• INFORMS Case Competition, First Place, for "Time-Shared Jet Aircraft" - 2000
• EnterPrize Business Case Competition, Top Prize for "SmartOps" - 1999
• George Leland Bach Award for Excellence in the Classroom - 1999
• Finalist, Lanchester Prize - 1997
• Department of Industrial Management Undergraduate Teaching Award - 1993
• Honorable Mention, Nicholson Prize - 1990

Editorial Boards:

• Management Science (Associate Editor), 1997-2002
• Operations Research (Associate Editor), 1997-2010
• MSOM Journal (Senior Editor), 1996-2005, 2011-
• IIE Transactions, NRLQ, Optimization and Engineering

Consulting:

• Microsoft
• General Electric
• McKinsey and Co.
• Caterpillar
• Deere