Why should you join the IROM department or get your PhD at McCombs?
Patrick Brocket
Junyu Cao
Deepayan Chakrabarti
Paul Damien
Jim Dyer
Rui Gao
Kumar Muthuraman
Stathis Tompaidis
Thaleia Zariphopoulou
Indranil Bardhan
Anitesh Barua
Maria de Artega
Sirkka Jarvenpaa
Yan Leng
Maytal Saar-Tsechansky
Huseyin Tanriverdi
Wen Wen
Andrew Whinston
Yifan Yu
Uttarayan Bagchi
Anant Balakrishnan
Stephen Gilbert
Diwakar Gupta
Genaro J. Gutierrez
Guoming Lai
Douglas Morrice
Yannis Stamatopoulos
Magdalena Bennett
Carlos Carvalho
Jared Murray
Thomas Sager
James Scott
Thomas Shively
Mingyuan Zhou
Areas of Specialization
Faculty and students in one of the areas in IROM work closely with colleagues from other areas within IROM and from colleagues from other departments in the college and university, including computer engineering, computer science, economics, law, management, marketing, mathematics, operations research, psychology, sociology, statistics, and data science.
Decision Science
Students in the Decision Science area focus on managing risk and developing “application-driven theory” to solve real-world problems. The faculty works on decision making under uncertainty, quantitative finance and numerical methods for solving financial models, risk management in the area of insurance, and on statistical models, machine learning, data analytics, and data mining.
Information Systems
Students in the Information Systems area focus on understanding the impact of information technology on individuals, organizations, and society. The faculty works in areas such as the economics of digital products, digital marketplaces, social media, strategic IT management, the business value of IT, virtual teams and collaboration technologies, healthcare IT, data mining and business analytics, artificial intelligence, blockchain, Internet of Things and design science using methods including econometric analysis, machine learning, experiments, qualitative research, and mathematical modeling.
Operations Management
Students in the Operations Management area learn how to develop and apply analytical and empirical models and methods to address strategic and operational issues in areas such as supply chains, manufacturing, services, healthcare, sustainability, not-for-profit operations, pricing, revenue management, project management, and product design. Students are trained in various methodologies to research these areas, including optimization, economics, stochastic models, statistics, econometrics, and simulation.
Statistics
Students in the Statistics area focus on the theory and methods of statistics, emphasizing business applications. Students are exposed to both Bayesian and classical approaches to inference and modern computational statistical tools. Several of the courses students take in the area are shared with the Department of Statistics and Data Sciences. The main difference between the programs is the strong emphasis on business applications.
Current Students and Job Market Candidates
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Recent Graduate Placements
2024
Hale Erkan – Arizona State University
Zhouran Jiang – HEC Paris
Ruijiang Gao – University of Texas at Dallas
Yilin He – ByteDance Ltd
Pedro Santos
2023
Wanxue Dong – The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2022
Zijian (Jacob) Zeng – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Jingyao Huang – University of Missouri-Kansas City
Paola Martin – Indiana University
Vasundhara – Indian School of Business
Haoyuan Liu – Nanyang Technological University
Alek Dimitriev – Google
Rohit Arora – Qontigo
2021
Junjie “Henry” Qian – ByteDance
Cenying “Tracy” Yang – City University of Hong Kong
Tan Wang – Expedia Group
Subrahmanyam “Aditya” Karanam – National University of Singapore
2020
Paul Cronin – The Home Depot
Parshuram Hotkar – Indian School of Business
Haris Krijestorac – HEC Paris
Xiaofan Li – National University of Singapore
Yixuan Liu – Purdue University
Quan Zhang – Michigan State University
Yuxin Zhang – Wayne State University
2019
Jared Fisher – University of California, Berkeley
Sebastian Souyris – University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Long Zhao – National University of Singapore
2018
Shi Ying Lim – National University of Singapore
Vishwakant Malladi – Indian School of Business
Chinmoy Mohapatra – BNSF Railways
David Puelz – The University of Chicago
Abhishek Roy – Temple University
Changseung Yoo – McGill University
Emre Yucel – HomeAway
2017
Samuel Blazek – Two Six Technologies
Yanzhen Chen – Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Gorkem Turgut “G.T.” Ozer – University of Maryland, College Park