Brief Bio. Karthyek Murthy is on the faculty of the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department of the University of Southern California since May 2025. He is on leave from being an Associate Professor at the Engineering Systems Design pillar of Singapore University of Technology and Design. His research interests revolve around data-driven operations research, focussing on models and methods for translating data into large-scale planning and operational decisions that are robustly effective and reliable in the face of uncertainty. His research has been recognized with the Outstanding Simulation Publication Award (2024), biennial INFORMS Applied Probability Society best publication award (2023), Winter Simulation Conference best paper award (2019), and the INFORMS Junior Faculty JFIG paper competition Third Prize (2021). He earned his PhD in Systems Sciences from the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in 2015 and worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Columbia University’s Industrial Engineering & Operations Research department from 2015 to 2017. He presently serves on the editorial boards of the journals Operations Research, Stochastic Systems, Operations Research Letters, and as an elected council member in the INFORMS Simulation Society. 

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