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Leavey School of Business Teaching Scholars

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Dr. Narendra Agrawal
Associate Professor

A complete listing of Dr. Agrawal's publications is available online.

Education

  • Ph.D. and M.S. in Operations Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
  • M.S. in Management Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas.
  • B. Tech. in Mechanical Engineering, Banaras Hindu University

Specialties

  • Supply chain management
  • Sourcing strategy
  • Inventory management
  • Manufacturing strategy

Dr. Naren Agrawal is an associate professor in the Department of Operations & Management Information Systems, and has been a visiting associate professor at the Wharton School of Business. He also worked as Systems Analyst with Tata Consultancy Services in Bombay, India.

Prof. Agrawal teaches courses in supply chain management, operations management, computer based decision models, and manufacturing competitiveness in the MBA and executive MBA programs. His research interests include supply chain management, sourcing strategy, design and analysis of distribution systems, and manufacturing competitiveness. His research has been published in journals such as Operations Research, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Naval Research Logistics, IIE Transactions, and the Journal of Retailing. He has also contributed chapters in a number of books on supply chain management. He serves on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Manufacturing and Service Operations Management and Journal of Production and Operations Management. Naren is a research faculty associate of the Retail Workbench at Santa Clara University, and a member of INFORMS. He is the recipient of the Dean's award for extraordinary research, teaching and service, and the Dean's award for teaching innovation. He also received the Breetwor Fellowship, which is awarded to tenured faculty members who have distinguished themselves as teaching scholars and are making notable service contributions to the School, the University, and the profession.

Prof. Agrawal has conducted numerous management development seminars and consulted with companies such as Adaptec, Applied Materials, Conceptus, The Gap, Hewlett Packard, IBM, MCA Solutions, Pemex, Redistributors of America, Inc., and Schlumberger.

 

Aslihan Celik
Assistant Professor

A complete listing of Dr. Celik’s publications is available online.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from University of Arizona
  • M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University
  • B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University

Specialties

  • Data management
  • Databases
  • Wireless data delivery
  • Electronic commerce

Aslihan Celik earned her PhD in Management Information Systems from the University of Arizona and earned her BS and MS degrees in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University.

Dr. Celik's research interests include designing and testing new methods for effectively securing and transmitting information via wireless protocols. Her work titled, "Adaptive Broadcast Protocols to Support Power Conservant Retrieval by Mobile Users" won the Best Paper award at the 1997 International Conference on Data Engineering.

Charles Feinstein
Associate Professor of OMIS

A complete listing of Dr. Feinstein's publications is available online.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Engineering Economics, Stanford University
  • M.S. in Mathematics, Stanford University. M.S. in Aeronautics/Astronautics, Stanford University
  • B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Cooper Union

Specialties

  • Optimization
  • Systems analysis and design
  • Statistics
  • Production management

Dr. Charles D. Feinstein is currently an Associate Professor of the Operations & Management Information Systems Department in the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. Professor Feinstein teaches courses in statistics, production management, operations research, systems analysis, and mathematical modeling.

Professor Feinstein's current research interests include information system design, optimal control of dynamic systems, optimization theory, and market forecasting.

Manoochehr Ghiassi
Professor of OMIS
Director, MSIS Program

A complete listing of Dr. Ghiassi's publications is available online.

Education

  • Ph.D., in Industrial Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana
  • M.S., in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana. M.S., in Economics from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
  • B.S., in Economics from Tehran University

Specialties

  • Artificial Neural Networks
  • Software Engineering
  • Software Testing
  • Computer Simulation
  • Systems Programming

Dr. Manoochehr Ghiassi is the Professor of Information Systems and the MSIS Director, and a Breetwor Fellow in the Operations & Management Information Systems Department in the Leavey School of Business here at Santa Clara University.

Dr. Ghassi teaches courses in Structured Programming, Systems Programming, Object-Oriented Programming, Software Project Management, Operating Systems, Computer Simulation, and Management Information Systems. Dr. Ghiassi's current research interests involve artificial neural networks, software engineering, object - oriented programming, software testing, software quality, and simulation modeling. He has published several papers in IEEE, AIIE, Computer Design, and Operations Research publications. He has consulted for AT&T, the U.S. Army, National Semiconductor, Sun Microsystems, Mentor Graphics, Signetics, and Microtec Research on a variety of software engineering and simulation projects.

Dr. Ghiassi has over 15 years of experience in software engineering and has developed methodology and tools necessary to establish software quality assurance programs for validation and verification of a variety of system software.

Dr. Chaiho Kim
Joseph S. Alemany Professor of OMIS and Chair

Education

Ph.D. and M.S. in Business, Columbia University.
B.S. in Business, Ouachita University

Specialities:
Manufacturing Strategy
Management Information Systems

Dr. Chaiho Kim joined the Santa Clara faculty in 1964. He is currently the Joseph S. Alemany Professor in the Operations & Management Information Systems Department of the Leavey School of Business and Administration. Professor Kim's current research interests include such topics as international manufacturing strategy, manufacturing information systems, statistics, and applications of artificial intelligence for manufacturing. system software.

Steven Nahmias
Professor of OMIS

A complete list of Dr. Nahmias' publications is available online.

Education

  • Ph.D. and M.S. in Operations Research, Northwestern University
  • B.S. in Industrial Engineering, Columbia University
  • B.A. in Physics and Mathematics, Queens College

Specialties

  • Inventory control systems
  • Statistical analysis
  • Manufacturing

Dr. Steven Nahmias is a Professor for the Operations & Management Information Systems Department in the Leavey School of Business here at Santa Clara University. He is the author or co-author of more than 50 technical papers, which have appeared in a variety of journals and books. He has gained an international reputation as an expert in stochastic inventory theory. He has served as an associate editor for Management Science and Naval Research Logistics, and the Area Editor in Supply Chain Operations for Operations Research. Currently, he is a senior editor for the Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Journal.

McGraw Hill/Irwin published his book titled, Production and Operations Analysis. More than 100 colleges and universities including Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, and the Harvard School of Business have adopted the text. It is taught in both business and engineering programs and has been translated into both Spanish and French. Dr. Nahmias has been at SCU for twenty-five years, and during that time has served as Department Chair (1987-1991) and Director of the Competitive Manufacturing Institute (1991-1997). In 1998, he received the award for Sustained Excellence in Scholarship.

As a member of the Palo Alto Golf Club, Dr. Nahmias maintains a 14 handicap. Bicycling and swimming take up his free time, as well. In addition, he is a semi-professional jazz trumpet player with three bands (Tuesday Nite Live, The Saturday Jazz Band, and Sextessence).

Manoj Parameswaran
Assistant Professor

Education

  • Ph.D. in Management Science & Information Systems from The University of Texas, Austin
  • M. Tech, Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
  • B. Tech, Electronics & Communication Eng., University of Kerala, India

Specialties

  • Economics of Telecommunication Networks
  • Electronic Commerce
  • Electronic Markets
  • Information Economics

Dr. Manoj Parameswaran is an Assistant Professor of Operations & Management Information Systems in the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. He teaches courses in information systems and telecommunications. His research interests include resource allocation in telecommunication networks, design of market mechanisms, business models in electronic and mobile commerce, and peer-to-peer networks. He has worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he was recognized for his distinguished teaching.

S. Andrew Starbird
Associate Professor

A complete list of Dr. Starbird’s publications is available online.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Cornell University
  • MBA from Santa Clara University
  • B.S. from UC. Davis in Agricultural Science and Manage

Specialties

  • Quality control and management
  • Food manufacturing and safety

Dr. Starbird is associate professor in the department of operations & management information systems. He has served as director of the food & agribusiness institute and as associate professor of agribusiness. His consulting experience includes work with companies like Becton Dickinson Immunocytometry Systems and Fresh Express. In the fall of 2000, he worked as director of strategic planning for TransFresh, a company involved with the international transportation of perishables.

Professor Starbird teaches classes in operations management, statistics, and complex decision making at the undergraduate, MBA, and executive MBA levels. His research interests include quality control and management, food safety, and contracting. He has published research in Naval Research Logistics, Journal of the Operational Research Society, and Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics.

Dr. Starbird has twice been honored with the Leavey School of Business's extraordinary performance award. He is co-editor of the International Food & Agribusiness Management Review

Dr. Andy Tsay
Associate Professor & Breetwor Fellow

A complete list of Dr. Tsay's publications is available online.

Education

  • Ph.D., Business, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, in the area of Operations, Information, & Technology
  • M.S., Engineering, Stanford University, in the area of Engineering-Economic Systems (now called Management Science & Engineering)
  • B.S. with Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa, Mathematical & Computational Science, Stanford University

Specialties

  • Supply chain coordination and management
  • Design, manufacturing, and supply chain execution in heavily outsourced Environments (such as electronics industries)
  • Operations/manufacturing strategy

Dr. Andy Tsay is an Associate Professor of Operations & Management Information Systems in the Leavey School of Business and Administration at Santa Clara University. He teaches Operations Management (OMIS 357), Computer-based Decision Models (OMIS 355), and Statistical Methods (OMIS 353) in the evening MBA program, Quantitative Methods (EMBA 801) in the Executive MBA program, and Operations Management (OMIS 108) in the undergraduate program.

He currently holds a Breetwor Fellowship (through 2004), which is awarded to tenured faculty members who have distinguished themselves as teaching scholars and are making notable service contributions to the School, the University, and the profession. During 2000-2002 he held a Dean Witter Foundation Fellowship, awarded to select junior faculty deemed to be promising teaching scholars.

He has received the Dean's Award for Extraordinary Performance in Research, Teaching, and Service in five of the last six years: 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, and 2003. In 1999-2000, he was named Santa Clara University's Outstanding Faculty Advisor of a Student Organization for his work with the OMIS Student Network, which won the Dean's Award for Outstanding Business Student Association that year. He was one of two recipients of the business school's Extraordinary Teaching Award for 1999-2000, and also received an Extraordinary Service Award. Under Dr. Tsay's supervision, the OMIS Student Network has also won the University Award for Outstanding New Educational Program (2000-01), the Business School Award for Service to the Community (2001-02) and the Business School Award for Enhancing Students' Career Development (2001-02).

Dr. Tsay's research has been published in leading academic journals such as Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Production & Operations Management, and Journal of Retailing, and various books on supply chain management.

Other Positions:

  • Associate Editor (focus area: Operations and Supply Chain Management), Management Science, published by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)

  • Editorial Review Board, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, published by INFORMS

  • Editorial Review Board, IIE Transactions on Scheduling and Logistics, published by the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE)

  • Senior Research Fellow, Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum, Stanford University

  • Faculty Fellow, Retail Management Institute, Santa Clara University