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Sushil K. Gupta

Executive Director, POMS
College of Business, Florida International University, USA

Dr. Sushil K. Gupta is a Distinguished University Professor in the College of Business, Florida International University (FIU), Miami, Florida, U.S.A. Dr. Gupta has also served FIU as Vice Provost, Academic Affairs, and Associate Dean, College of Engineering. Dr. Gupta is also a Distinguished Professor, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics (DUFE), Dalian, China.

Dr. Gupta is a highly esteemed scholar in the field of Production and Operations Management. His research interests include disaster management, healthcare, mathematical modeling, project management, supply chain management, and e-business. He has published in top-ranking professional journals including Production and Operations Management, Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, IIE Transactions, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Research, Omega, Computers and Industrial Engineering, and Socio-Economic Planning Sciences.

Dr. Gupta is one of the founding members of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) and has played a key role in its initiation, development and growth. He was POMS Vice President for Member Activities (1994), POMS President (1996) and is currently serving as its Executive Director (since 1997). He is the Department Editor of the POM’s Disaster Management department.

Dr. Gupta was elected a POMS Fellow in 2004. POMS also bestowed the honor on Dr. Gupta by awarding him the first POMS Distinguished Service Award in 2012. This award, starting in 2013, is renamed as the Sushil K. Gupta POMS Distinguished Service Award to honor Dr. Gupta for his dedicated services to POMS.

Dr. Gupta has been the recipient of many other prestigious awards that include: the "FIU Foundation Excellence in Research/Scholarship” award (1987), “Distinguished Scholarly Research Award” of the College of Business, FIU, (1984), “Fulbright Fellowship” to do research work at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A. (1977-78), Commonwealth Scholarship for graduate work at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, (1972-74) and the Dr. V.K.R.V. Rao Gold Medal for his first place ranking in the MBA graduating class (1969), Delhi, India. Dr. Gupta has also received the teaching excellence award from the College of Business, FIU.

Dr. Gupta holds Bachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, M.B.A. from Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), University of Delhi, India, Master of Applied Sciences in Industrial Engineering from University of Toronto, Canada, and Ph.D. from FMS, University of Delhi, India.