Assistant Professor
University of Houston, USA
Assistant Professor
University of Houston, USA
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University of Houston, USA
I am an Assistant Professor in Operations Management with a joint position in the Departments of Decision & Information Sciences (C.T. Bauer College of Business) and Health Systems and Population Health Sciences (Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine) at the University of Houston. Before this, I was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Carnegie Mellon University.
I am an Assistant Professor in Operations Management with a joint position in the Departments of Decision & Information Sciences (C.T. Bauer College of Business) and Health Systems and Population Health Sciences (Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine) at the University of Houston. Before this, I was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Carnegie Mellon University.
Research area: I am primarily interested in improving public sector operations. I have worked on the liver-organ transplantation (healthcare), and child welfare system. I study the optimal resource allocation (livers, caseworker workload, or case admission) policies in a data-driven framework.Â
Research area: I am primarily interested in improving public sector operations. I have worked on the liver-organ transplantation (healthcare), and child welfare system. I study the optimal resource allocation (livers, caseworker workload, or case admission) policies in a data-driven framework.Â
Methods: I use empirical methods (structural estimation) in my research. I also frequently use math programming (Integer programming, probabilistic models) and discrete-event simulation in my projects.
Methods: I use empirical methods (structural estimation) in my research. I also frequently use math programming (Integer programming, probabilistic models) and discrete-event simulation in my projects.
Education: Ph.D. in Operations Management: University of Maryland (College Park, MD, USA) in 2022; Bachelors in Industrial Engineering: Indian Institute of Technology (New Delhi, India) in 2013.
Education: Ph.D. in Operations Management: University of Maryland (College Park, MD, USA) in 2022; Bachelors in Industrial Engineering: Indian Institute of Technology (New Delhi, India) in 2013.
Industry experience: Before starting my doctoral studies, I worked in the supply chain industry for around three years in India. I looked into the supply chain of computers, home appliances, and pharmaceutical products. It also involved field visits and interactions with the stakeholders.
Industry experience: Before starting my doctoral studies, I worked in the supply chain industry for around three years in India. I looked into the supply chain of computers, home appliances, and pharmaceutical products. It also involved field visits and interactions with the stakeholders.
Publications
Publications
Improving Broader Sharing to Address Geographic Inequity in Liver Transplantation (with Liye Ma and S. Raghavan). Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 25(4), 2023.
Methodology: Econometrics (Structural model), Simulation
Accepted at the 2021 MSOM Healthcare SIG Meeting
Previously circulated under the title, 'Does Broader Sharing Improve Patient Outcomes? An Analysis of The Share 35 Liver Allocation Policy'
Heterogeneous Donor Circles for Fair Liver Transplant Allocation (with S. Raghavan and Sommer E. Gentry). Health Care Management Science, 27, 2024.
Methodology: Mixed-Integer Programming, Simulation
Work invited to the Economics of Transplantation Workshop at the Stanford University (2020)
Selected for presentation at the 4th MD4SG workshop in August 2020 (Acceptance rate: 29%)
Closing the Gap: Enhancing Geographic Equity under the Continuous Distribution Organ Allocation Policy (With S. Raghavan and Nicholas L. Wood). Operations Research, Data Analytics and Logistics, 2025.
Under Review:
Impact of Regulation on Deceased-Donor Liver Offer Acceptance and Patient Welfare (with Liye Ma and Dr. Christopher Hughes).
Accepted at the 2025 MSOM Healthcare SIG Meeting
Mission Impossible: Maximizing Liver Allograft Utilization Using Perfusion Technology Does Not Solve Organ Shortage (with Yanik Bababekov, John Roberts, Sridhar Tayur, and Mustafa Akan).
Ongoing Work
Ongoing Work
Improving Process Flow in a Child-Welfare System: A Data-Driven Approach (with Alan Scheller-Wolf, Justine Galbraith and Lindsey Lacey).
Missed Opportunities in Organ Recovery: Evidence and Remedy (with Nisarg Nigam).
Improving Organ Acceptance Rates Through Smarter Allocation Policies (with Feiteng Huang and Meng Li).
Awards & Honors
Awards & Honors
External:
2020 Best Paper Award (Finalist), INFORMS Public Sector Operations Research
2020 Best Paper Award (Honorable Mention), College of Healthcare Operations Management (CHOM), POMS
Internal (University of Maryland, College Park):
2021 Abraham Golub Dissertation Proposal Prize
2020 and 2021Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Grant
2021 International Conference Student Support
2020 Outstanding Graduate Assistantship Award
2018, 2019 and 2020 Smith School Summer Fellowship
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