{"id":1182,"date":"2010-07-30T07:07:43","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T11:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=1182"},"modified":"2010-07-30T07:07:43","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T11:07:43","slug":"another-operations-research-dean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/07\/30\/another-operations-research-dean\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Operations Research Dean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" title=\"Sunil Kumar\" src=\"http:\/\/si.wsj.net\/public\/resources\/images\/OB-JJ939_chicag_D_20100728150033.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"157\" \/>Sunil Kumar, currently at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/~skumar\/\">Stanford<\/a>, has been<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagobooth.edu\/news\/kumar\/index.aspx\"> named Dean of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business<\/a>.\u00a0 Sunil&#8217;s research has been in manufacturing, stochastic control, queueing networks, and related areas, making him clearly an operations research person (and of course he is a member of INFORMS).\u00a0 He is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informs.org\/Journal\/OR\/Editorial-Statements\/Area-Editors-Statements\/Stochastic-Models\">area editor of <em>Operations Research<\/em><\/a>, a position I suspect he will be giving up shortly.<\/p>\n<p>It is amazing how often the field of <a href=\"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=398\">operations research leads to academic administration<\/a>.\u00a0 Congrats Sunil!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunil Kumar, currently at Stanford, has been named Dean of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.\u00a0 Sunil&#8217;s research has been in manufacturing, stochastic control, queueing networks, and related areas, making him clearly an operations research person (and of course he is a member of INFORMS).\u00a0 He is an area editor of Operations Research, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/07\/30\/another-operations-research-dean\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Another Operations Research Dean&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}