Mahesh Nagarajan

Dr. Mahesh Nagarajan is the Senior Associate dean for Research and a Professor in the Operations and Logistics Division at the UBC Sauder School of Business, where he holds the Alumni Chair Professorship in stochastic optimization. His areas of applied research include data analytics and mathematical modeling of business systems. He has consulted with major international organizations in retail, manufacturing, services and health care.

Research Interests

• Supply Chain Management
• Applied Game theory
• Inventory Management

Selected Recent Publications

• "Stable Supplier Coalitions in Assembly Systems with Commodity Components". Co-authors: G. Sosic and C. Tong. Forthcoming in Operations Research.
• "Patient Prioritization in Emergency Department Triage Systems: An Empirical Study of Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS)". Forthcoming in M&SOM. Co-authors: Y. Ding, E. Park & E. Grafstein.
• "Seed Portfolio Management with Production Flexibility". Co-authors: S. Bansal. Operations Research 2017.
• "Simple Policies for Managing Flexible Capacity." Forthcoming in M&SOM. Co-authors: G. Janakiraman, S. Veeraraghavan.
• "Process Capacity: Exact analysis and the Bottleneck Formula". Forthcoming in M&SOM. Co-authors: Bo, Y., M. Dawande, T. Huh, G. Janakiraman.