Research
In my research I have been working on capacity management problems that arise with the development of new business models and/or technologies, with specific applications in industries including food supply chains, energy supply chains, and banking operations. The findings in my research have revealed many industry-specific counter-intuitive managerial insights that aid in decision-support at the strategic and tactical levels. Overall, my research highlights the importance of detailed modeling of operations in a processing network when making capacity and/or technology related decisions. Methodologically, I use stochastic analysis and optimization, queueing theory, and simulation to analyze complex processing networks. This enables me to examine decision-making by organizations in problems motivated by industry practices. Specifically, in my research I developed efficient and novel techniques to analyze complex stochastic networks and large-scale optimization problems.
Publications:
- Dynamic Volunteer Staffing in Multicrop Gleaning Operations (with Baris Ata and Deishin Lee), Operations Research, 2019, 67(2), 295-314.
- An Analytical Throughput Approximation for Closed Fork/Join Networks (with Alan Scheller-Wolf and Nicola Secomandi), Informs Journal on Computing, 2017, 2, 251-267.
- Combining Two Wrongs to Make Two Rights: Mitigating Food Insecurity and Food Waste through Gleaning Operations (with Deishin Lee, Miguel Gomez, and Xiaoli Fan), Food Policy, 2017, 68, 40-52.
- A Comprehensive Annual Delivery Program for Upstream Liquefied Natural Gas Supply Chains (with Fatih Mutlu, Mohamed Msakni, Hakan Yildiz, and Shaligram Pokharel), European Journal of Operational Research, 2016, 250, 120 - 130. (research supported with NPRP award from Qatar National Research Fund)
- Improving Food Bank Gleaning Operations: An Application in New York State (with Deishin Lee, Miguel Gomez, and Xiaoli Fan), American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2016, 98(2), 549-563.
- Strategic Analysis of Technology and Capacity Investments in the Liquefied Natural Gas Industry (with Sunder Kekre, Alan Scheller-Wolf and Nicola Secomandi), European Journal of Operational Research, 2013, 226, 100 - 114.
- Balancing Risk and Efficiency at a Major Commercial Bank (with Sunder Kekre, Alan Scheller-Wolf and Kenneth West), Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 2009, 11, 160 - 173.
Working Papers:
- Dynamic Irrigation Management Under Temporal and Spatial Variability (with Baris Ata and Derek Heeren), 2020, Working Paper.