Department of IROM
Department of IROM
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Awards/Honors
Department Chair
“The IROM Faculty in The McCombs School of Business has developed an
outstanding reputation based on its teaching and research. Additionally, the
strong relationships this department has forged with industry have resulted in
innovative “applications-driven theory’ research and world class programs in
Information, Risk, and Supply Chain Management. It is a privilege to serve as
chair of such a fine department.”
Professor Douglas Morrice
IROM News
IROM Doctoral Student, Jaehong Park,
earned UT’s William S. Livingston Outstanding Graduate Student Academic Employee Award for Outstanding Teaching Assistant. The Graduate School and the University Co-op presented the award as part of the Excellence in Graduate Education reception May 12 at the Four Seasons Hotel.
Professor William Cooper
Why I Do What I Do
Professor David Spence
The Strange Politics of the Financial Bailout
Professor Sridhar Seshadri won the 2008 INFORMS MSOM Best Paper Award. The paper is titled “Hedging Inventory Risk Through Market Instruments” and was chosen over 11 other nominated papers
Professor Patrick Brockett’s paper published in 2007 in the Journal of Risk and Insurance, “Biological and Psychobehavioral Correlates of Credit Scores and Automobile Losses: Toward an Explication of Why Credit Scoring Works,” was named Most Outstanding Contribution to the Casualty Actuarial Society.
Professor William Cooper Selected for Presidential Citation Award
Professor Prabhudev Konana
awarded Hank & Mary Harkins Foundation Award for Effective Teaching in Undergraduate Classes. Congratulations!
Ranking
Departments, Programs, & Specializations: Undergraduate
# 3 Management Information Systems
U.S. News (8/07)#12 Supply Chain Management/Logistics
U.S. News (8/07)Departments, Programs, & Specializations: Graduate
# 3 Information Systems
U.S. News (3/08)# 5 Information Technology
Wall Street Journal (9/07)# 7 Information Technology
Financial Times (1/08)Research Rankings
#10 Information, Risk, & Operations Mgmt Research
Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index,Chronicle of Higher Education (11/07)
IROM Welcomes New Faculty & Doctoral Students Fall 2008
Faculty
Professor Robert McCulloch will be joining the Department of IROM from The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Professor McCulloch received a bachelor's degree in mathematics and economics from the University of Toronto in 1981, a master's degree and a PhD in statistics from the University of Minnesota in 1984 and 1985, respectively. His research focuses on Bayesian statistics with application to data mining, finance, and marketing.
Professor Sridhar Seshadri will be joining the Department of IROM this Fall 2008 from the Stern School at New York University. He received his Bachelor of Technology in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, postgraduate diploma in management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and Doctor of Philosophy in management science from the University of California at Berkeley. His research interests are in stochastic modeling & optimization, specifically, problems related to planning, coordination and optimization in supply chains; performance evaluation of queueing systems; and the impact of risk on operational decisions.
Doctoral Students
Information Systems (IS)
Rajiv Mukherjee
Shannon Rariden
Qian Tang
Risk Analysis & Decision Making (RADM)
Ying He
Daniel Zantedeschi
Supply Chain & Operations Management (SCOM)
Wen Chen
Seung Jae Park
Last Updated
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
