McCombs’ IROM Ph.D. program centers around four areas of study: decision science, operations management, statistics, and information systems. Faculty and students work closely with colleagues within their chosen area of study, and collaborate with other departments in the college and university, including computer engineering, computer science, economics, law, management, marketing, mathematics, operations, psychology, sociology, statistics, and data science. IROM faculty members have extensive professional and academic backgrounds, and their research has been spotlighted in numerous publications.
Faculty by area of specialization
Decision Science
Decision science focuses on managing risk and developing application-driven theory to solve real-world problems. Faculty in this area specialize in decision making under uncertainty, quantitative finance and numerical methods for solving financial models, risk management in the area of insurance, and on statistical models, machine learning, data analytics, and data mining.
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Information systems
Information Systems focuses on understanding the impact of information technology on individuals, organizations, and society. Faculty work in areas such as the economics of digital products, digital marketplaces, social media, strategic IT management, the business value of IT, virtual teams and collaboration technologies, healthcare IT, data mining and business analytics, artificial intelligence, blockchain, Internet of Things and design science using methods including econometric analysis, machine learning, experiments, qualitative research, and mathematical modeling.
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Operations management
Faculty in the operations management area develop and apply analytical and empirical models and methods to address strategic and operational issues in areas such as supply chains, manufacturing, services, healthcare, sustainability, not-for-profit operations, pricing, revenue management, project management, and product design.
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Statistics
Statistics focus on the theory and methods of statistics, emphasizing business applications. Students are exposed to both Bayesian and classical approaches to inference and modern computational statistical tools. Several of the courses students take in the area are shared with the Department of Statistics and Data Sciences. The main difference between the programs is the strong emphasis on business applications.
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Job Market Candidates
Recent Graduate Placements
The primary goal of the Texas McCombs Ph.D. program is to prepare students for exceptional academic careers. Over the last five years, McCombs IROM Ph.D. alumni have excelled at top institutions globally.
2024
Hale Erkan – Arizona State University
Zhouran Jiang – HEC Paris
Ruijiang Gao – University of Texas at Dallas
Yilin He – ByteDance Ltd
Pedro Santos
2023
Wanxue Dong – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2022
Zijian (Jacob) Zeng – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jingyao Huang – University of Missouri-Kansas City
Paola Martin – Indiana University
Vasundhara – Indian School of Business
Haoyuan Liu – Nanyang Technological University
Alek Dimitriev – Google
Rohit Arora – Qontigo
2021
Junjie “Henry” Qian – ByteDance
Cenying “Tracy” Yang – City University of Hong Kong
Tan Wang – Expedia Group
Subrahmanyam “Aditya” Karanam – National University of Singapore
2020
Paul Cronin – The Home Depot
Parshuram Hotkar – Indian School of Business
Haris Krijestorac – HEC Paris
Xiaofan Li – National University of Singapore
Yixuan Liu – Purdue University
Quan Zhang – Michigan State University
Yuxin Zhang – Wayne State University
2019
Jared Fisher – University of California, Berkeley
Sebastian Souyris – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Long Zhao – National University of Singapore
2018
Shi Ying Lim – National University of Singapore
Vishwakant Malladi – Indian School of Business
Chinmoy Mohapatra – BNSF Railways
David Puelz – The University of Chicago
Abhishek Roy – Temple University
Changseung Yoo – McGill University
Emre Yucel – HomeAway
2017
Samuel Blazek – Two Six Technologies
Yanzhen Chen – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Gorkem Turgut “G.T.” Ozer – University of Maryland, College Park
Current Ph.D. students
