I am an Assistant Professor of Operations Management within the Information Systems, Statistics, and Management Science (ISM) department at the Culverhouse College of Business, The University of Alabama.  My research lies at the intersection of Economics and Operations Research, focusing on Socially Responsible Operations (SRO).

I graduated from the Naveen Jindal School of Management at The University of Texas, Dallas, with a Ph.D. in  Management Science, where I was co-advised by the late Dr. Milind Dawande , and Dr. Ganesh Janakiraman. 

RESEARCH

Research Interests

Topics: Socially Responsible Operations, Nonprofit Operations, and Crowdsourcing Contest Design

Methodologies: Optimization,  Game Theory, and Mechanism Design

Research Papers

• Optimal Cardinal Contests (with  M. Dawande and G. Janakiraman), Production and Operations Management,  Vol . 32, No. 11, pp. 3433–3451, 2023. [doi]

•  The Impact of Co-location in Emissions Regulation Clusters on Traditional and Vendor-Managed Supply Chain Inventory Decisions (with N. Turken and A. Geda).  Annals of Operations Research, pp. 1572-9338, 2021.  [doi ]

Papers Under Review

• Non-Profit Support in Education: Resource Allocation and Students’ Lifetime Outcomes ( with  H. Guda, M. Dawande,  and G. Janakiraman).  Major revision at  Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. 2024.  [ssrn] 

• Local Food Distribution: Implications for Wholesale Prices and Product Availability (with  S. Lim and M. Mahmoudi ). 2025.  [Extended Abstract]

Working  Papers

• Optimal Design of Income Sharing Loan (ISL) Programs in Education Sector: A Non-Profit Operations Perspective (with Y.  Lu).  2025