About

I am an Assistant Professor of Operations and Business Analytics at The Ohio State University. My research domain is sustainable operations management (OM). I use data and text analytics to examine business and environmental problems. I am among the first scholars in my field to apply text analytics in sustainable OM. I have also implemented text analysis in other domains of OM, such as pharmaceutical manufacturing. 

My research has been published in Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Risk Analysis, Energy Policy, Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, and Business Horizons. I joined the Operations and Business Analytics department at the Fisher College of Business after obtaining my Ph.D. from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. 

Before pursuing my Ph.D. at UCLA, I was part of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Lab at UC Berkeley. I collaborated with a team of scientists to develop a math model called “SWITCH” that identifies the least-cost combination of energy technologies to provide low-carbon electricity in 11 western states. 

Employment

The Ohio State University, 2017-Current

Assistant professor

Education

University of California, Los Angeles, 2017

Ph.D. in Decisions, Operations and Technology Management 

Carnegie Mellon University, 2011-2012

Ph.D. student in Engineering and Public Policy

University of California, Berkeley 2011

B.A. Applied Mathematics (Honors)

B.A. Environmental Economics and Policy

Honors and Awards

• Awarded best paper of the year by the Society of Risk Analysis (2019)

• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (2011-2014)

Grants

• OSU Sustainable Supply Chain Grant 2022 (PI: Christian Blanco and James Hill; $16,500)

• FDA Broad Agency Announcement: Quality management and drug quality risks (PI: John Gray and George Ball 2019-2021; $1.74M)

• NSF Research Traineeship Convergent Graduate Training for a Sustainable Energy Future (PI: Ramteen Sioshansi 2019-2024; $2.98M)

• OSU Fisher Leadership Research Grant 2020 (PI: Elliot Bendoly; $6,875)

• FDA and NIPTE, Manufacturing Sector Research Initiative sub-award (PI: John Gray 2017-2020)

• OSU SERC Faculty Grant (PI: Christian Blanco and Erin McKie 2018; $7,500)

• OSU Fisher College of Business Mini Grants (2017; $2,000)

• UCLA Easton Technology Leadership Program (Summer 2014; 2015)

• UCLA Anderson Center for Global Management Award (Summer 2014)

• NETL DOE Research Grant (co-authored grant with Jay Apt 2012-2014; $125,000)

• UCLA Cota-Robles Graduate Fellowship 2011 (Declined)

• UC LEADS Professional Development Grant (UC Berkeley 2010-2011)