Anand Abraham Paul

Anand Abraham Paul

  • E.R. Beall Professor
  • Full Professor
  • Director, Supply Chain Management Center

Location

  • Warrington College of Business
  • Information Systems and Operations Management Department
  • Master of Science – Management
  • Supply Chain Management Center
  • Stuzin Hall 333
CV

Anand Paul is the E.R. Beall Professor in the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds a postgraduate degree from the Indian Institute of Management and an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology. He teaches courses in quantitative methods and operations management. His research interests are in stochastic methods (to model and solve problems in supply chains, production, and scheduling) and in mathematical methodology in general (particularly analysis and its applications). His research has been published in Management Science, Operations Research, M&SOM, Mathematics of Operations Research, Production and Operations Management, Marketing Science, IIE Transactions, Naval Research Logistics, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, and Operations Research Letters. Prior to embarking on a career in academia, Dr. Paul worked for three years in consulting.

Expertise and interest areas

  • Applied Probability Theory
  • Inventory Theory
  • Probability Models
  • Project and Reliability Networks
  • Supply Chain Management

Courses taught

  • Individual Work in Information Systems and Operations Management (QMB6905)
  • Management (MAN5501)
  • Managerial Quantitative Analysis I (QMB6755)
  • Production and Operations Management (MAN5502)
  • Seminar in Information Systems and Operations Management (QMB7933)
  • Special Topics (GEB6930)

Education

  • PhD – Operations Management, University of Texas at Austin, 2000
  • MBA, Indian Institute of Management, 1991
  • BTech – Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, 1989

PhD students advised

  • Aprotiim Joardar — 2024 — 2025
  • Na Zhang — 2021 — 2025

Professional service

  • Senior Editor — 2016 to 2025
  • Senior Editor, POM Journal — 2022
  • Session Chair, EUROMA 2022 — 2022
  • Session Chair, Production and Operations Management Society — 2022
  • Track Organizer, Production and Operations Management Society — 2021 to 2022
  • Senior Editor, POM Journal, Special Issue on Pandemics — 2021

Book chapter publications

  • 'Analytics in Education: An Educational Analysis Framework for Enhanced Learning Outcomes'
    • Status: Published
    • Published Year: 2021
    • Authors: Nazura Ahmed, Anand Paul

Journal article publications

  • Optimal two-period allocation of a perishable product with stochastic demand
    • Status: 1st Revise and Resubmit
    • Journal: Production and Operations Management
    • Authors: Anand Paul, Lingjiong Zhu, Aydin Alptekinoglu
  • Managing Service Systems with Overconfident Customers
    • Status: 2nd Revise and Resubmit
    • Journal: Manufacturing and Service Operations Management
    • Authors: Na Zhang, Anand Paul, Xu Sun
  • A Dynamic Perspective on Managing Social Responsibility
    • Status: In Preparation; Not Yet Submitted
    • Journal: Management Science
    • Authors: Shiwei Chai, Asoo Vakharia, Anand Paul
  • Sharing Economy Platforms with Reference-Dependent Gig Workers
    • Status: Revision under 2nd Review
    • Journal: Management Science
    • Authors: Na Zhang, Anand Paul, Liangfei Qiu
  • Network structure, audit policies, and the cost of security breaches
    • Status: Revision under 3rd Review
    • Journal: Production and Operations Management
    • Author: Anand Paul
  • Sequencing with machine failures driven by a non-homogeneous Poisson process
    • Status: Published
    • Journal: Naval Research Logistics
    • Published Year: 2024
    • Authors: Lingjiong Zhu, Anand Paul, Haldun Aytug
  • Enhancing Make-to-Order Manufacturing Agility: When Flexible Capacity Meets Dynamic Pricing
    • Status: Published
    • Journal: Production and Operations Management
    • Published Year: 2024
    • Authors: Xu Sun, Shiwei Chai, Anand Paul, Lingjiong Zhu
  • Optimal Process Planning in Co-production Systems
    • Status: Published
    • Journal: Production and Operations Management
    • Published Year: 2024
    • Authors: Vashkar Ghosh, Anand Paul, Zhechao Yang, Lingjiong Zhu
  • Mean throughput rate in restart-upon-failure systems subject to random disruptions
    • Status: Published
    • Journal: IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineering)
    • Accepted Year: 2021
    • Authors: Haldun Aytug, Anand Paul
  • The Impact of Mergers, Capacity Expansion, and Adoptions on Animal Shelter Performance: A Queuing Analysis
    • Status: Published
    • Journal: European Journal of Operational Research
    • Accepted Year: 2020
    • Authors: Nazli Turken, Janice Carrillo, Anand Paul