| Subodha Kumar | |
| Education: | Ph.D., MBA, M. Tech., B. Sc. Engineering |
Subodha Kumar is an Indian American business school researcher and educator and a board member. He is known for his work on web advertising, social media, healthcare, analytics, and disruptive technologies. He is the Paul R. Anderson Distinguished Chair Professor of Statistics, Operations, and Data Science (with a secondary appointment in Information Systems) at the Fox School of Business, Temple University. He founded the Center for Business Analytics and Disruptive Technologies at Temple University and directs the Ph.D. Program in Operations and Supply Chain Management.[1] [2]
Subodha is the President-Elect of Production and Operations Management Society (POMS)[3] and the Deputy Editor for the Production and Operations Management journal, one of the topmost journals in the field of operations and supply chain management.[4] He is also the Founding Executive Editor of the Management and Business Review journal,[5] which has been referred to as a rival to the Harvard Business Review by Forbes.[6]
Subodha has (co)-authored two books in the areas of web analytics - Optimization Issues in Web and Mobile Advertising: Past and Future Trends Social Media Analytics and Practical Applications: The Change to the Competition Landscape.
Kumar has received several awards for research, teaching, and service to the academic community.[7] [8] He has been invited by media to provide expert opinion on matters related to social media, marketing, and business management.[9] [10] [11]
Subodha was born in India where he received his Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from BIT Sindri, India. He later went on to get his masters in Industrial and Management Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. He received his MBA and PhD (2001) in Management Sciences and Information Systems from University of Texas, Dallas.[12] Kumar started his academic career as an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at Foster School of Business, University of Washington. He later joined Mays Business School at Texas A&M University in 2009, where he held Mays Research Fellow (2012), Shelley and Joe Tortorice '70 Faculty Research Fellow (2012 – 2013), and Carol and G. David Van Houten, Jr. '71 Professorship (2013 – 2017).[13]
Kumar holds a patent (United States Patent # 6,556,893, approved on April 29, 2003) on “Robotic System Control.”[14]
Subodha is the author of Optimization Issues in Web and Mobile Advertising: Past and Future Trends, which summarizes the state-of-the-art research on web and mobile advertising. He is also a co-author of Social Media Analytics and Practical Applications: The Change to the Competition Landscape, which illustrates how social media analytics can help firms build transformational strategies and cope with the challenges of social media technology.
Subodha has published around 100 papers in academic journals[15] and around 150 peer-reviewed conference proceedings.[16]
Subodha has co-authored several business-school case studies in the domain of operations, supply chain management, and information systems.[17] He has also co-authored multiple book chapters.[18]
Subodha holds and has held several editorial positions at academic journals including deputy editor for Production and Operations Management and founding editor-in-chief of Management and Business Review. He is the President-Elect of Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), and a board member of Insightzz,[19] Journal of Blockchain Research,[20] Srini Raju Centre for IT and The Networked Economy, Indian School of Business (ISB),[21] and ISB Institute of Data Science.[22] In addition, Subodha is the faculty area advisor of operations-economics interface at the Indian Institute of Management, Udaipur,[23] advisory council member of the INFORMS Service Science Section, and associate executive director of the Production and Operations Management Society's information technology services.[24] He has also been a member of the Heal Advisory Board.[25]
Kumar has received several honors for his scholarship and service to the academic society.