Professor of Operations Management
Burlington Northern/Burlington Resources Professor in Manufacturing Management
PhD, Stanford University, 1985
MS, Stanford University, 1982
BA, University of California, San Diego, 1981
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Michael G. Foster School of Business |
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307 Mzckenzie Hall
kamran@u.washington.edu
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Info Systems and Ops Management Department
Box 353200
Seattle, WA 98195-3200 |
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Specialties
Production and operations management supply chains, inventory, quality, economics of Information.
Positions Held
At the University of Washington since 1984.
Selected Publications
- “Coordinated Replenishment and Shipping Strategies in Inventory/Distribution Systems,” with M. Gurbuz and Y.P. Zhou, Management Science, forthcoming.
- “A Supply Chain Model with Reserve Information,” with Apurva Jain, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Vol. 7, No. 4, 2005, pp. 360-378.
- “Economic Control and Inspection Policies for High Speed Unreliable Production Systems,” with Y. Tan, IIE Transactions, Vol. 37, No. 8, 2005, pp. 711-724.
- “Value Based design of Electronic Commerce Servers,” with Y. Tan and V. Mookerjee, INFORMS Journal of Computing, Vol. 17, 2005, pp. 99-110.
- “A Multi-Echelon Inventory System with Information Exchange,” Management Science, Vol. 48, 2002, pp. 414-426.
- “Adjustment Strategies for a Fixed Delivery Contract,” with S. Nahmias, Operations Research, Vol. 3, 2000, pp. 408-423.
- “An Archiving Model for a Hierarchical Information Environment,” with E. Berk, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 123, No. 1, 2000, pp. 206-225.
- “The Impact of Discharge Decisions on Health Care Quality,” with Emre Berk, Management Science, Vol. 44, 1998, pp. 400-415.
Current Research
Supply chain management, impact of information availability in production and inventory systems, adjustment strategies in fixed delivery contracts.
Honors and Awards
Dean’s Faculty Research Award (2001)
MBA Core Professor of the Quarter (Spring 2001)
Dean's Research Award (1996)
Burlington Northern Foundation Achievement Award for Scholarship (1990)
Seafirst Faculty Research Award (1987)
Selected Consulting Experience
- At&T Wireless (Cingular wireless), studied the design and staffing issues at the retail stores.
- Microsoft, analyzed supply chain issues facing company's intercontinental region.
- Boeing Company, supply contract design.
- Starbucks, studied the effects of waiting lines on company's potential loss of market share.
Academic Service
Department of inventory and supply chain management editor for IIE Transactions, associate editor for Operations Research, associate editor of Management Science.
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