Mohit Tawarmalani

Mohit Tawarmalani is the Executive Associate Dean of Faculty and the Allison and Nancy Schleicher Chair of Management at Purdue University's Mitch Daniels School of Business. He holds a courtesy appointment as a Professor of Chemical Engineering. With a Ph.D. and M.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, his expertise spans optimization, mathematical programming, and global optimization software (e.g., BARON). His research bridges computer science, operations research, and engineering, focusing on applications in business and energy systems.

His awards include the INFORMS Computing Society Prize (2004), Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize (2006), and the 2024 Computing in Chemical Engineering Award. He led Purdue’s team to win the 2023 INFORMS UPS George D. Smith Prize for educational innovation in analytics training.

Prof. Tawarmalani directs the Krenicki Center for Business Analytics and Machine Learning, co-founded the Master’s in Business Analytics program, and redesigned the Mitch Daniels School of Business structure. His grants include NSF and Air Force funding for optimization and network research.