Subodha Kumar is the Paul R. Anderson Distinguished Chair Professor of Statistics, Operations, and Data Science and the Founding Director of the Center for Business Analytics and Disruptive Technologies at Temple University’s Fox School of Business. He has a secondary appointment in Information Systems. He also serves as the Concentration Director for Ph.D. Program in Operations and Supply Chain Management. Subodha’s personal page can be accessed at: https://sites.temple.edu/subodha/.
Subodha is a board member of many organizations. He is the Deputy Editor of the Production and Operations Management (POM) Journal and the Founding Executive Editor of Management and Business Review (MBR). He also serves on other editorial boards. Subodha is the Executive Director of POM Society (POMS). He is also a Visiting Professor at the Indian School of Business (ISB). He has served on the University of Washington and Texas A&M University faculty.
Subodha was awarded the INFORMS Information Systems Society (ISS) Distinguished Fellow Award in 2023. He was elected to become a Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) Fellow in 2019. To honor Subodha, the Management and Business Review has instituted “The Subodha Kumar and Geoffrey G. Parker Award for Research on Digital Transformation.” He has received numerous other research and teaching awards.
Subodha has published more than 280 papers in reputed journals and refereed conferences. He was ranked #1 worldwide for publishing in the UTD list of 24 leading journals. He was also ranked #1 worldwide for publishing in Information Systems Research. In addition, he has authored two books, book chapters, Harvard Business School cases, and Ivey Business School cases. He also holds a robotics patent. He has also received grants from national agencies such as the National Institute of Health (NIH).
Subodha is routinely cited in different media outlets, including Time Magazine, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Businessweek, NBC, CBS, Fox, NPR Marketplace, New York Post, and U.S. News. He has been the keynote speaker and track/cluster chair at leading conferences. He was also the conference chair for the POMS Annual Conference 2018 and the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) Annual Conference 2018 and has co-chaired several other conferences.