ISyE Seminar Series: Prof. Sridhar Tayur

"Implementing Innovations in US Transplantation System"

Sridhar Tayur

Ford Distinguished Research Chair and University Professor of Operations Management
Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University

About the Seminar:

Can private jets help save lives? Yes. Can short videos nudge next-of-kin (NOK) to donate more? Also, yes. How has an outsider to the transplantation system, with no previous knowledge or expertise in (any aspect of) healthcare, managed to make a difference? Is imagination really more important than knowledge? In this invited article, I will briefly describe two innovations - OrganJet and Nudge Videos - that I have implemented in the US Transplantation System that have extended the lives of many. If time permits, I will also discuss other projects in organ transplantation, and healthcare more broadly.

Paper Related to the Talk:

Implementing Innovations in U.S. Transplantation System

About the Speaker:

Sridhar Tayur is the Ford Distinguished Research Chair and University Professor of Operations Management at Tepper School of Business. He received his Ph.D. in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University and his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Madras. He is the founder (and served as CEO) of the software company SmartOps [founded in 2000, acquired by SAP in 2013] and is the founder of a social enterprise, OrganJet. SmartOps is the subject of a Darden Case (distributed by HBS) and OrganJet of an HBS Case. In 2018, he founded Quantum Technologies Group at Tepper and created the field of Quantum Integer Programming (QuIP). He has won POMS Healthcare Best Paper Award (2012), INFORMS Pierskalla Award (twice, in 2015 and 2021), MSOM Best Paper Award (2022), and INFORMS PSOR Best Paper Award (2022). He has won the Gerald L. Thompson Teaching Award given by Undergraduates, the George Leland Bach Excellence in Teaching Award given by MBA students, the INFORMS Teaching Case award, and was named ‘Top Professor’ by Business Week. His PhD students have won the Nicholson Prize and the Dantzig Prize. He is an INFORMS Fellow, a Distinguished Fellow of MSOM Society and has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.