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Quantitative Methods

The Quantitative Methods Department at the Mitch Daniels School of Business is dedicated to being one of the nation’s leading hubs of research on business statistics, management science, predictive analysis, six sigma and quality management, data mining, optimization and more. Faculty in the department teach undergraduate, master’s and PhD level courses.

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Centers & Organizations

Krenicki Center for Business Analytics & Machine Learning

The Krenicki Center for Business Analytics and Machine Learning brings together industry partners, faculty, and students to foster continued collaboration and discovery in the field. Faculty lead students through the development of critical solutions for industry partners.

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The Business Analytics and Information Management Student Association

The Business Analytics and Information Management Student Association promotes continuous outside-the-classroom learning for students in the BAIM undergraduate major. Students have the opportunity to hear from industry professionals and develop their technical skills.

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The Data Mine

The Data Mine is a residential learning community that prepares students to succeed in today’s data-driven workforce through real-world challenges. Open to all Purdue majors, many business school students participate in the Data Mine's corporate partners program.

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Research

Quantitative Methods faculty are leading researchers in statistical quality control and improvement, reliability analysis, network science, machine learning, combinatorial optimization, integer programming and more. Their research has been published in journals such as Mathematical Programming, Mathematics of Operations Research and the SIAM Journal on Optimization.

Journal Articles

  • Xiangyu Chang, Xi Chen, Zehua Lai, He Li, Zhihong Liu, Yichen Zhang (2026). "Online Statistical Inference for Contextual Bandits via Stochastic Gradient Descent." Journal of the American Statistical Association | Related Website |
  • Xin Wen, Will Wei Sun, and Yichen Zhang (2026). "Online Tensor Inference." Operations Research | Related Website |
  • Elynn Chen, Xi Chen, Wenbo Jing, and Yichen Zhang (2025). "Distributed Tensor Principal Component Analysis with Data Heterogeneity." Journal of the American Statistical Association vol. 120 (552), 2619-2631. | Related Website |
  • Rene Caldentey, Avi Giloni, Clifford Hurvich, and Yichen Zhang (2025). "Information Design and Sharing in Supply Chains." Mathematics of Operations Research vol. 50 (3), 1965-1991. | Related Website |
  • Weidong Liu, Jiyuan Tu, Xi Chen, Yichen Zhang (2025). "Online Estimation and Inference for Robust Policy Evaluation in Reinforcement Learning." The Annals of Statistics vol. 53 (5), 2128-2152. | Related Website |
  • Qiyu Han, Will Wei Sun, and Yichen Zhang (2025). "Online Statistical Inference in Decision-Making with Matrix Context." The Annals of Statistics vol. 53 (5), 1963-1986. | Related Website |

Job Market Candidates

Daniels School of Business PhD students are leading members of the next generation of innovative researchers, scholars and teachers. We are proud to support the next phase of their academic and professional lives.

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To obtain additional information on job market candidates, please reach out to the Quantitative Methods Department contact below, or contact the candidate directly.

PhD Coordinator
Will Wei Sun
sun244@purdue.edu
(765) 494-4085

Daniels School of Business Quantitative Methods Department
Krannert Building
403 Mitch Daniels Blvd.
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2076

Department Head: Thanh Nguyen

Senior Administrative Assistant: Heather Manion