Durai Sundaramoorthi

Dr. Durai Sundaramoorthi received his PhD in Industrial Engineering (Operations Research) from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2007. He performed his doctoral research in the Center on Stochastic Modeling, Optimization, and Statistics (COSMOS). He also has a M.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Bharathiar University, India. Prior to this position, Dr. Durai held fulltime faculty positions at Engineering Management department at Missouri University of Science & Technology (formerly University of Missouri-Rolla) and Steven L. Craig School of Business at Missouri Western State University. He has been teaching quantitative business courses since 2007.

Dr. Durai's research interests include Data Mining, Optimization, Simulation, and Simulation-based Analytics applied to diverse applications. He developed SIMNA, a simulation of nurse activity, which is first of its kind for the purpose of evaluating assignments from different nurse-to-patient assignment policies. He has recently developed SIMGO, a simulation of ground-level ozone to forecast harmful ground-level ozone levels. Apart from academic research, he has worked on business analytics projects at Heartland Regional Medical Center, Baylor Regional Medical Center, FedEx, GE, and Thomas & Betts that utilized data mining, simulation, optimization, and financial modeling. He is a member of Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).

Area of Expertise:

• Decision Analysis, Management Science, Math Programming, Simulation Modeling, Statistics/Econometrics, Stochastic Processes, Statistics/Econometrics

Research Interests:

• Methodology: Business Analytics, Machine-Learning, Simulation, and Simulation-based Optimization.

Selected Publications:

• "Machine Learning Approaches for Category Sales Prediction: Empirical Application to Retail Scanner Data", Journal of Retailing, with S. Seetharaman
• "A Data-Integrated Simulation Model to Forecast Ground-Level Ozone Concentration", Annals of Operations Research, Issue 1, 53 - 69, 2014
• "A Data-Integrated Simulation-Based Optimization for Assigning Nurses to Patient Admissions", Health Care Management Science, Issue 3, 210-221, with V. Chen, J. Rosenberger, S. Kim, D. Behan, 2010
• "A Data-Integrated Simulation Model to Evaluate Nurse-Patient Assignments", Health Care Management Science, Issue 3, 252-268, with V. Chen, J. Rosenberger, S. Kim, D. Behan, 2009
• "A Data-Integrated Simulation of Financial Market Dynamics", International Journal of Operations Research and Information Systems, 74 - 86, with A. Coult, D. Nguyen, 2012
• "Simulation and patient assignment: Unearthing patterns", Nursing Management, Issue 11, 14-16, with J. Rosenberger, V. Chen, D. Behan, S. Kim, 2010

Academic/Professional Activities:

• Chair, 5th INFORMS Workshop on Data Mining and Health Informatics
• Council Member and News Letter Editor, Data Mining Section of INFORMS
• Member, DSI
• Contributor and Reviewer of Questions, INFORMS Certified Analytics Professional Exam
• Member, INFORMS
• Co-Editor, Annals of Operations Research Special Issue on Data Mining and Analytics
• Chair-Elect, INFORMS Data Mining Section

Awards/Honors:

• MSA Reid Teaching Award, 2022
• MSA Reid Teaching Award, 2021
• MSA Reid Teaching Award, 2020
• MSA Reid Teaching Award, 2019
• MSA Reid Teaching Award, 2018
• 2018 Olin Award, Olin Business School, 2018
• 2017 INFORMS Data Mining Best Paper Award, 2017
• Emerson Excellence in Teaching Award, Washington University in St. Louis, Emerson, 2015
• Outstanding Faculty Member Award, Washington University, 2012
• Governors' Distinguished Professor Award, Missouri Western State University, 2011
• Best Interactive Presentation Award, INFORMS, 2009
• Best Research Poster Award, Mayo Clinic, 2009