Purdue Supply Chain and Operations Management Conference About Us

In 2022, Purdue announced a major initiative to reimagine the School of Management into a new School of Business that will redefine the preparation of business leaders, grounded in the hallmarks of a Purdue education, including STEM disciplines and business analytics. Graduates from the School of Business will be uniquely positioned to bring discoveries to the marketplace, scale up innovations and effect societal change. Purdue’s business school was formally renamed the Mitch Daniels School of Business, honoring the 12^th president of Purdue. The school is achieving excellence at scale by increasing enrollment, faculty size and housing them in a state-of-the-art facilities, while integrating business with the university’s world-renowned strength in STEM fields. Students are provided with expanded transformational experiential learning opportunities as they are taught to better communicate the importance of business to effectively build bridges between technology and humanity.

The Supply Chain & Operations Management (SC&OM) Area has consistently retained high rankings in educational programs, and an increasingly strong reputation of faculty research among top institutes. Our educational program has a unique reputation for training students with data-driven problem-solving skills to address issues in supply chain and operations management with a significant emphasis on global contexts. In the 2024 U.S. News & World Report rankings, our undergraduate programs are listed #8 in Production/Operations Management and #10 in Supply Chain Management/Logistics, and our graduate programs are listed #3 in Production/Operations Management and #7 in Supply Chain Management/Logistics.

A diverse faculty research profile covers a wide range of application domains, including inventory planning, sourcing strategy, contract and negotiation, revenue management and dynamic pricing, logistics network design, hospital operations, manufacturing planning, reliability analysis, supply chain risk analysis, e-commerce and sharing platforms, etc. We have faculty experts mastering a variety of methodologies, including stochastic modeling, optimization, data-integrated decision modeling, game theory, statistical machine learning, econometrics analysis, etc. The SC&OM faculty has extensively collaborated with private, public, and non-profit sectors in applied research.

Recent collaborators include Allegion, Applied Materials, AstraZeneca, Avis, Bell Lab, Carle Clinic, Caterpillar, Corteva, Dow Chemical, Evonik, GE Aviation, INDOT, IU Health, Jeco, Juniper, MES Inc., MSI Surfaces, OilDri, Oscar Winski, Pentland, Pepperidge Farm, P&G, PepsiCo, Ports of Indiana, Purdue University Press, TideCleaners, R.D. Gardi Medical College, Red Gold, Rolls Royce, Southwire, St. Vincent DePaul, Standard Industrial, Tippecanoe County, UPS, US Foods, Wabash Group, Whole Earth, WFTDA, and Wyze. Our faculty serves over twenty major editorial positions (associate editors, senior editors, area editors) in the top four Operations Management journals.

SC&OM Tenure-Track Faculty

Suresh Chand
Louis A. Weil Jr. Chair of Operations Management

Professor Chand’s research and teaching interests include analysis and improvement of production processes on dimensions of cost, quality, time and flexibility with applications in manufacturing and healthcare. He has published over 50 papers on topics including: Just in Time Scheduling, Effects of reducing setup times, Process Improvement–Allocating resources to process improvement vs. production, Process Flexibility, Effects of learning and forgetting in processes, Improving Patient Flows and Power Generation Management. He served as Associate Editor for Management Science (1986-2008), Associate Editor for INFOR, Canadian Journal of Operational Research and Information Processing (1985-99), Area Editor for Production and Operations Management (1992-2003), Associate Editor for Production and Operations Management (2009-15), and Senior Editor for Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (1999-2004).

Gökçe Esenduran
Associate Professor of Supply Chain & Operations Management

Professor Esenduran received her Ph.D. from Kenan-Flagler Business School, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before joining Purdue, she was an associate professor at The Ohio State University. Gökçe’s current research primarily focuses on sustainable operations. She has published in journals such as Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Operations Management, IISE Transactions, and Naval Research Logistics. She received the Krannert Young Faculty Scholar Award in 2019. She is a senior editor for Production and Operations Management and associate editor for Decision Sciences Journal.

Qi Annabelle Feng
Associate Professor of Supply Chain & Operations Management

Professor Feng’s current research mostly focuses on the development of stochastic functions and data-integrated decisions. A significant portion of her work analyzes firms’ procurement, inventory and pricing strategies, and negotiations of sourcing contract. She also works in the areas of subsidy design, resource planning, product development and proliferation management, economic growth models, and information system management. She served as a department editor for Production and Operations Management, and is currently an associate editor for Management Science and Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. She was named a POMS Fellow in 2020.

William Haskell
Assistant Professor of Supply Chain & Operations Management

Professor Haskell's research focuses on dynamic Operations Management problems, risk-aware decision-making, and optimization algorithms. In the area of dynamic OM, he has investigated data-driven dynamic programming and its statistical properties, and fairness in resource allocation. In the area of risk-aware decision-making, he has proposed several new preference robust optimization models. In the area of optimization algorithms, he has developed new methods for semi-infinite programming and for performance analysis in online optimization. He currently teaches supply chain analytics to undergraduate and MBA students in the Daniels School of Business.

Chen-An Lin
Assistant Professor of Supply Chain & Operations Management

Professor Lin’s research primarily focuses on developing optimal dynamic control policies in wait-time based queueing systems, with applications to service systems and make-to-order systems. His work aims to capture complex interactions within queues and provide structural managerial insights. His research has been published in a leading journal, Management Science, and he has presented his findings at major conferences in the field, such as the INFORMS Annual Meeting, MSOM Conference, and POMS Annual Conference. Notably, he was honored with the Student Paper Award in 2021 from the POMS College of Sustainable Operations.

Mengshi Lu
Associate Professor of Supply Chain & Operations Management

Professor Lu’s current research interests include infrastructure network design for supply chains and service systems, supply chain risk management, management of innovative operations, and project management. He applies robust optimization, stochastic optimization, and game theory to study various supply chain and service operations management problems, taking into consideration risks, ambiguity, incentives, and behavioral issues. His research has been funded by research foundations and funding agencies, including the National Science Foundation. His work has appeared in journals such as Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and Production and Operations Management.

Zhan Pang
Lewis B. Cullman Rising Star and Professor of Supply Chain & Operations Management

Professor Pang is a Purdue Innovation and Entrepreneurship Fellow. His research interests include statistical learning and decision theory, healthcare delivery systems, supply chain risk management, and pricing and revenue management. He is a senior editor for Production and Operations Management and a founding editor of Journal of Blockchain Research.

J. George Shanthikumar
Richard E. Dauch Distinguished Chair in Manufacturing & Operations Management

Professor Shanthikumar’s research interests are in integrated inter-disciplinary decision making, model uncertainty and learning, production systems modeling and analysis, queueing theory, reliability, scheduling, semiconductor yield management, simulation, stochastic processes, and sustainable supply chain management. He has written or written jointly over 300 journal articles on these topics, and is a coauthor of the book “Stochastic Models of Manufacturing Systems” and “Stochastic Orders and Their Applications”. He serves the editorial board for a numerous number of academic journals, and is currently a Department Editor of Production and Operations Management. He has extensively consulted for various companies including AMD, Applied Materials, Bellcore, IBM, Fujitsu, KLA-Tencor, NTT, Intel, Intermolecular, LSI, Motorola, ReelSolar, Safeway, Southern Pacific Railways, TI, Toshiba, TSMC, UMC., Inter Molecular Inc., and Reel Solar Inc. He is a fellow of INFORMS and a fellow of POMS.

Pengyi Shi
Associate Professor of Supply Chain & Operations Management

Professor Shi received her Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology before joining Purdue in 2014. Her research interests include data-driven modeling and decision-making in healthcare and service operations. She has collaborated with practitioners from different healthcare organizations, including major hospitals in the US, Singapore, and China. Most recently, she is collaborating with community correctional programs to develop data-based evaluation and human-in-the-loop machine learning algorithms. Her research has won the first place of MSOM Responsible Research in OM Award in 2021, the first place of INFORMS Pierskalla Best Paper Award in 2018, and the second place of POMS CHOM Best Paper Award in 2019 and 2020.