Jomon Paul

Dr. Jomon A. Paul is the Director of Research and Assessment and Professor of Quantitative Analysis at the Coles College of Business, Kennesaw State University, Georgia. He is the Course Lead for the Managerial Decision Analysis (WebMBA 6040) course in the Georgia WebMBA program. He also serves as a Senior Associate Editor for Socio-Economic Planning Sciences.

Dr. Paul teaches business analytics courses focused on optimization, statistics, simulation modeling, and decision analysis topics in the BBA and MBA programs. His primary research interests include the application of operations research, analytics, simulation, and statistical modeling to disaster planning, humanitarian logistics, homeland security, healthcare, and transportation domains.

Dr. Paul is a member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI), and a senior member of the American Society of Quality (ASQ). His research has appeared in premier journals such as Operations Research, Transportation Research Part B, Transportation Research Part E, Decision Support Systems, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Journal of Business Ethics, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Annals of Operations Research, Journal of Emergency Medicine, Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management among several others. Dr. Paul’s research has been cited several times in high-quality papers published in Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, Production and Operations Management, International Journal of Production Economics, Transportation Research Part E, Decision Support Systems, Transportation Research Part D, Information Systems Frontiers, Annals of Operations Research, etc.

Dr. Paul was awarded the "KSU Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Award” in 2016 and the Coles College of Business "Distinguished Professor Award" in 2019. He was also awarded the “Distinguished Scholarship Award” of the Coles College of Business in 2013 and 2020. Dr. Paul has won teaching awards at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He has organized and chaired sessions and presented papers at national and international conferences. Dr. Paul is an ASQ certified Six Sigma Black Belt. He has done several lean six sigma quality and throughput improvement projects for clients that include hospitals, airports, etc.

Education

• PhD, Industrial Engineering (Operations Research) University at Buffalo (2002 - 2006)
• MS University at Buffalo (2002 — 2004)
• B.E The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (1998 — 2002)
• Certificate American Society for Quality (SSBB) (2006)

Companies

• Director of Research and Assessment Kennesaw State University - Michael J. Coles College of Business (2021)
• Professor of Quantitative Analysis Kennesaw State University (2017)
• Director of Research Coles College of Business, Kennesaw State University (2014)
• Associate Professor of Quantitative Analysis Kennesaw State University (2012 — 2017)
• Assistant Professor Kennesaw State University (2007 — 2012)
• Visiting Assistant Professor Kennesaw State University (2006 — 2007)
• Research Assistant Research Institute for Safety and Security in Transportation (2006 — 2006)
• Research Assistant The Center for Industrial Effectiveness (2005 — 2006)
• Research Assistant Center for MultiSource Information Fusion (2004 — 2005)