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 an MBA 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 supply chain management and applied probability. 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.