Kumar Rajaram
Professor of Decisions, Operations and Technology Management William E. Leonhard Chair in Management
About
Kumar Rajaram’s research is focused on improving operations in the health care industry, nonprofit sector and process manufacturing sector, including food processing, pharmaceuticals and the petrochemical industry. He has developed analytical models of complicated systems with a strong emphasis on practical implementation. His Robust Process Control focuses on the design and control of processes in operational environments and has resulted in four-fold increases in productivity in several types of industrial processes at companies worldwide.
Topics
7 Articles
The New Math for Reservoir Management Amid Climate Change
Sacramento River Basin serves as a test case for conserving water over unpredictable weather cycles
Can Algorithms Help Reduce Hospital Readmissions?
Measuring the utility of increased care and testing, inputs that aren’t always immediately available
A Scheduling Tool that Considers Employee Preferences
A model for staffing O.R.s incorporates the costs of worker dissatisfaction and idle time
A Model Could Help Food Processors Operate More Efficiently
Managing production with the declining potency of a catalyst
Machine Learning Can Help Reduce Post-Surgical Hospital Readmissions
A model outperformed simpler statistical approaches in predicting which patients would encounter trouble
How Fashion Brands Can Best Ensure Worker Safety in Developing Nations
Collective action, rather than each brand working alone, appears more effective and costs less
Picked All the Low-Hanging Fruit? Finding Opportunity in Mathematical Models
After management does its best, new analytical approaches take effectiveness up another notch