I am an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Industrial & Manufacturing Systems Engineering and the Department of Marketing at the University of Missouri (MU). I am also a core faculty at the MU Institute for Data Science and Informatics, and a visiting faculty at the University of Passau, Germany. 

My area of specialization is data analytics and operations research with research interests in healthcare operations management, transportation/logistics, smart service systems, and supply chain. I have been an investigator on a range of industry-based research projects and have published over 40 peer-reviewed articles in journals, conferences, books, and trade publications. I also teach undergraduate, graduate, and MBA level courses that include topics pertaining to data analytics, machine learning, simulation, service systems, and supply chain optimization.