时间：2024年7月17日上午9:00-11:30

地点：东校区财科馆317会议室

题目：Future Trends and Emerging Issues Related to Business Analytics and Disruptive Technologies in Various Domains, including Operations Management, Marketing, Information Systems, and Human Resources

主讲人：Subodha Kumar(Paul R. Anderson Professor, Fox School of Business, Temple University)

个人简介Biography：

Subodha Kumar is the Paul R. Anderson Distinguished Chair Professor of Statistics, Operations, and Data Science and the Founding Director of the Center for Business Analytics and Disruptive Technologies at Temple University’s Fox School of Business. He has a secondary appointment in Information Systems. He also serves as the Concentration Director for Ph.D. Program in Operations and Supply Chain Management. Prof. Kumar’s personal page can be accessed at:https://sites.temple.edu/subodha/.

Prof. Kumar is a board member of many organizations. China’s Ministry of Education has awarded him a Changjiang Scholars Chair Professorship. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Indian School of Business (ISB). He has served on the University of Washington and Texas A&M University faculty.

Subodha was awarded the INFORMS Information Systems Society (ISS) Distinguished Fellow Award in 2023. He was also elected to become a Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) Fellow in 2019. To honor Subodha, the Management and Business Review has instituted “The Subodha Kumar and Geoffrey G. Parker Award for Research on Digital Transformation.” He has received numerous other research and teaching awards.

Subodha has published more than 240 papers in reputed journals and refereed conferences. He was ranked #1 worldwide for publishing in Information Systems Research. In addition, he has authored two books, book chapters, Harvard Business School cases, and Ivey Business School cases. He also holds a robotics patent. He has also received grants from national agencies such as the National Institute of Health (NIH).

Prof. Kumar is routinely cited in different media outlets, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, NBC, CBS, Fox, Business Week, Marketplace, and the New York Post. He is the Deputy Editor of the Production and Operations Management Journal and the Founding Executive Editor of Management and Business Review (MBR). He also serves on other editorial boards. He was the conference chair for the POMS Annual Conference 2018 and Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) Annual Conference 2018 and has co-chaired several other conferences.