Prakash Mirchandani

Prakash Mirchandani is a Professor of Business Administration at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh. He serves as Director of the Center for Supply Chain Management and Academic Director of the Executive MBA Program. His academic background includes a PhD in Management from MIT, an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, and a B.Tech from IIT Delhi.

• Education: PhD (MIT), Postgraduate Diploma in Management (IIM Ahmedabad), Bachelor of Technology (IIT Delhi)
• Roles: Director, Center for Supply Chain Management; Academic Director, EMBA Program; Professor of Business Administration

Research Interests focus on:

• Network design for transportation and telecommunications
• Polyhedral combinatorics and heuristic optimization for integer programming
• Supply chain effectiveness through commonality and revenue management
• Supply chain finance and healthcare logistics

Publication Trends highlight his work in Operations Research, Supply Chain Management, and Network Design, with recent studies addressing pandemic-era supply chains, remanufacturing pricing, and O2O platform logistics.

Scientific Honors:

• Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award (2012)
• Outstanding Teacher of the Year (1999–2023, multiple years)
• Distinguished Professor of the Year, EMBA-Healthcare (2018–2020)
• INFORMS Technical Section in Telecommunications Best Presentation (2002)
• Zenon S. Zannetos Prize for Best PhD Thesis (1990)
• Institute’s Gold Medal for Scholastic Performance (1983)

Professional Contributions include editorial roles (e.g., Area Editor, INFORMS Journal on Computing), vice presidency in Beta Gamma Sigma, and consulting projects for organizations like GlaxoSmithKline, the World Bank, and FedEx Supply Chain.