McCombs School of Business
Department of IROM

Department of IROM

Additional Information

Awards/Honors

Department Chair

Doug Morrice, 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

Professor Mendoza-Arriaga Receives 2009 Nemhauser Doctoral Dissertation Prize

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 Earns Presidential Citation


Professor William Cooper
Why I Do What I Do

Professor David Spence
The Strange Politics of the Financial Bailout

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Professor Prabhudev Konana and Bin Gu
Research on Investment Web Sites Earns 2007 Best Paper Award

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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

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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.

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Professor William Cooper Selected for Presidential Citation Award

Konana

Professor Prabhudev Konana

awarded Hank & Mary Harkins Foundation Award for Effective Teaching in Undergraduate Classes. Congratulations!

Prentice

Professor Robert Prentice

Lessons Not Learned from Enron: The Supreme Court's Stoneridge Decision

Lasdon

Professor Leon Lasdon

Operations Research Important for Businesses

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 2009

Faculty

Ashish Agarwal (Information Systems)
Ashish Agarwal received his Ph.D. in Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University. He also has Masters in Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Ashish has previously worked for i2 Technologies where he was responsible for designing and implementing Supply Chain Management software. Some of his research interests include Software Product Strategy, Standards and Network effects and Online Advertising.


Guoming Lai (Operations Management)
Guoming Lai will join The University of Texas at Austin from Carnegie Mellon University where he received his Ph.D. and taught Production and Operations Management to undergraduates. His research mainly focuses on the topics in the interfaces of operations management with finance and strategic consumer behavior. Before moving to CMU, Lai obtained his Master and Bachelor degrees from Tsinghua University in China.


Rafael Mendoza-Arriaga (Quantitative Finance/Risk)
Rafael Mendoza-Arriaga is a PhD candidate of industrial engineering and management science at Northwestern University. Previously, he was a financial engineer at Algorithmics Inc. and quantitative research at Citadel Group. He holds a Master's degree in mathematical finance from the University of Toronto and in industrial engineering and management sciences from Northwestern University. Quantitative finance, stochastic modeling and applications of functional analysis and diffusion processes are some of Rafa's research interests.


James Scott (Statistics)
James Scott returns home to Texas (his alma mater) by way of Duke University, where he earned a Ph.D. in statistics, and the University of Cambridge, where he studied mathematics at Trinity College on a Marshall Scholarship. His research focuses on Bayesian approaches for model selection and hypothesis testing, along with structured models for high-dimensional inference on networks and in time series analysis.

Doctoral Students

Information Systems (IS)

Yi Chen

Chung Man Alvin Leung


Risk Analysis & Decision Making (RADM)

Chi-san Ho

Daniel Mitchell


Supply Chain & Operations Management (SCOM)

Patrick Downes

Ashton Mozano

Vivek Vasudeva