2026 Community Update

Annual update on the composition of the OM/SCM faculty community tracked by this directory, compiled 2026-07-07. Corrections are welcome via the contact page.

New Faculty

  • Ozgur Aksoy joins Texas A&M University as Assistant Professor.
  • David Almog joins Harvard University as Assistant Professor of Business Administration.
  • Jerry Anunrojwong joins Yale University as Assistant Professor of Operations.
  • Soh Hyun Chu joins Erasmus University Rotterdam as Assistant Professor.
  • Hao Ding joins University of Miami as Assistant Professor.
  • Xin Geng joins University of Miami as Associate Professor.
  • Teck Hua Ho joins Nanyang Technological University as President and Distinguished University Professor.
  • Narges Mohammadi joins City St George's, University of London as Lecturer.
  • Mohamed Mostagir joins University of Michigan at Ann Arbor as Associate Professor of Technology and Operations.
  • Andrea Patrucco joins Copenhagen Business School as Associate Professor.
  • Christoph Riedl joins Northeastern University as Professor.
  • van Lisanne Rijn joins Erasmus University Rotterdam as Assistant Professor.
  • Roshni Sahoo joins Columbia University as Assistant Professor of Business.
  • Aras Selvi joins University College London as Lecturer (Assistant Professor).
  • Hojung Shin joins Korea University as Professor.
  • Xu Sun joins University of Miami as Assistant Professor.
  • Jingwen Tang joins University of Miami as Assistant Professor.
  • Bengisu Urlu joins Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics as Assistant Professor.
  • Michelle A. Vaccaro joins Harvard University as Assistant Professor of Business Administration.
  • Robert Wiedmer joins Arizona State University as Instructor ABD.
  • Chenxi Xu joins Purdue University as Assistant Professor.
  • Nan Yang joins University of Miami as Professor, Management.
  • Hannah M Yee joins Erasmus University Rotterdam as Assistant Professor.
  • Rui Yin joins Arizona State University as Associate Professor.
  • Heng Zhang joins Arizona State University.
  • Michael Li Zhi-Feng joins Nanyang Technological University as Associate Professor.
  • Zenan Zhou joins Arizona State University.
  • Angela Zhou joins University of Southern California as Assistant Professor of Data Sciences and Operations.
  • Yvonne Zhu joins Pennsylvania State University as Assistant Professor in Supply Chain & Information Systems.
  • Ran Zhuo joins University of Michigan at Ann Arbor as Assistant Professor of Technology and Operations.

Moves & Transitions

  • Alexandre Belloni moves from Duke University to University of Chicago as Professor of Operations, Econometrics, and Statistics and U Chicago Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Studies.
  • Harshita Kajaria Montag moves from Indiana University Bloomington to Kühne Logistics University as Assistant Professor of Operations.
  • Dongyuan Zhan moves from University of Science and Technology of China to University College London as Associate Professor.

Promotions & Title Changes

  • Ali Aouad (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is now Sloan School Career Development Associate Professor (previously Assistant Professor).
  • George Ball (Indiana University Bloomington) is now Professor (previously Associate Professor).
  • Elliot Bendoly (The Ohio State University) is now Richard M. Ross Chair in Management, and Professor of Operations and Business Analytics (previously Professor).
  • Christian Blanco (The Ohio State University) is now Associate Professor (previously Assistant Professor).
  • Tyson Browning (Texas Christian University) is now Professor of Operations Management (previously Cox Family Endowed Chair).
  • Valérie Bélanger (HEC Montreal) is now Professor (previously Associate Professor).
  • Gérard Cachon (University of Pennsylvania) is now Fred R. Sullivan Professor, Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions, Department Chair (previously Professor).
  • Ann Melissa Campbell (University of Iowa) is now Professor (previously Clement T. and Sylvia H. Hanson Family Chair).
  • Maricela Arellano Caro (HEC Montreal) is now Associate Professor (previously Assistant Professor).
  • Zhi Chen (Chinese University of Hong Kong) is now Associate Professor (previously Assistant Professor).
  • Haozhe Chen (Iowa State University) is now Land O'Lakes, Inc. Endowed Professor in Supply Chain Management and Chair, Department of Supply Chain Management (previously Walker Professor).
  • Yan Dong (University of South Carolina) is now Professor and Distinguished Moore Fellow (previously Professor).
  • Ellie Falcone (Texas Christian University) is now Associate Professor (previously Assistant Professor).
  • Santiago Gallino (University of Pennsylvania) is now Charles W. Evans Distinguished Faculty Scholar, Associate Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions (previously Associate Professor).
  • Andreas Kilian Gernert (Kühne Logistics University) is now Associate Professor of Sustainable Operations (previously Assistant Professor).
  • Sanjith Gopalakrishnan (McGill University) is now Associate Professor, Operations Management (previously Assistant Professor).
  • Michael F. Gorman (University of Dayton) is now Professor & Charles and Patricia R. Niehaus Chair in Business Analytics and Operations Management (previously Charles R. and Patricia R. Niehaus Chair).
  • Sean M. Handley (University of South Carolina) is now Distinguished Moore Fellow and Professor (previously Professor).
  • Patrick T Harker (University of Pennsylvania) is now Rowan Distinguished Professor, Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions (previously Professor).
  • Anito Joseph (University of Miami) is now Assoc. Professor (previously Associate Professor).
  • Masoud Kamalahmadi (University of Miami) is now Asst. Professor (previously Assistant Professor).
  • Bora Keskin (Duke University) is now Professor (previously Associate Professor).
  • Mehmet Murat Kristal (York University) is now Professor (previously Associate Professor).
  • Menglong Li (City University of Hong Kong) is now Associate Professor (previously Assistant Professor).
  • Meng Li (University of Houston) is now Professor - Endowed C. T. Bauer Chair of AI (previously C. T. Bauer Chair).
  • Mei Li (University of Oklahoma) is now Professor of Supply Chain Management (previously Associate Professor).
  • Lesley Meng (Yale University) is now Associate Professor of Operations Management (previously Assistant Professor).
  • Antonio Moreno (Harvard University) is now Professor of Business Administration (previously Associate Professor).
  • Sergey Naumov (Pennsylvania State University) is now Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management (previously Assistant Professor).
  • Chris Parker (University of Virginia) is now Richard S. Reynolds Associate Professorship in Business Administration (previously Associate Professor).
  • Jean Pauphilet (University of London) is now Associate Professor of Management Science and Operations (previously Assistant Professor).
  • Christoph Schmidt (University of Bath) is now Senior Lecturer (previously Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor)).
  • Sridhar Seshadri (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) is now Professor of Business Administration and Alan J. and Joyce D. Baltz Endowed Professor (previously Professor).
  • Peng Shi (University of Southern California) is now Associate Professor of Data Sciences and Operations (previously Assistant Professor).
  • John Silberholz (University of Maryland, College Park) is now Associate Professor of Business Analytics (previously Assistant Professor).
  • Kingshuk Sinha (University of Minnesota) is now Professor and Elmer L. Andersen Chair in Sustainable Supply Chain (previously Elmer L. Andersen Chair).
  • Daniel Snow (Brigham Young University) is now Lee Tom Perry Distinguished Fellow and Associate Professor (previously Associate Professor).
  • Sining Song (University of Maryland, College Park) is now Associate Professor (previously Assistant Professor).
  • Gilvan Souza (University of Tennessee at Knoxville) is now Haslam Chair of Business Analytics (previously Professor).
  • Yoshi Suzuki (Iowa State University) is now Ruan Chair in Transportation and Logistics (previously Land O'Lakes, Inc. Endowed Professor).
  • Necati Tereyagoglu (University of South Carolina) is now Associate Professor and Distinguished Moore Fellow (previously Associate Professor).
  • L. Beril Toktay (Georgia Institute of Technology) is now Brady Family Chair in Management and Regents' Professor (previously Brady Family Chair).
  • Yanchong (Karen) Zheng (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) is now George M. Bunker Professor (previously Associate Professor).

Retirements

  • Henri Groenevelt (University of Rochester) has retired in 2026.
  • Rachel Q. Zhang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) has retired in 2026.