Sumit Kunnumkal

Sumit Kunnumkal is an Associate Professor of Operations Management at the Indian School of Business. He holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Cornell University. He received his M.S. in Transportation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his B.Tech. in Civil Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He has previously taught at the Smith School of Business, Queen’s University and has held visiting positions at the Singapore University of Technology and Design and Universitat Pompeu Fabra. His research interests lie in the areas of pricing and revenue management, retail operations, assortment planning and approximate dynamic programming. He has taught in the Post Graduate Program, the Fellow Program and various advanced management and executive education programs at ISB.

Education

• PhD Cornell University (2002 — 2007)
• MS Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2000 — 2002)
• B.Tech Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (1996 — 2000)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Approximate dynamic programming, revenue management, assortment optimization

Published Papers

• Kunnumkal, Sumit.,Talluri, Kalyan. (forthcoming) "Choice network revenue management based on new tractable approximations", Transportation Science
• Kunnumkal, Sumit.,Martinez-de-Albeniz, Victor. (2019) "Tractable Approximations for Assortment Planning with Product Costs", Operations Research
• Bala, Ram.,Kunnumkal, Sumit.,Sohoni, Milind. (2016) "Evergreening and Operational Risk Under Price Competition", Naval Research Logistics Quarterly , 63 (1)
• Kunnumkal, Sumit.,Talluri, Kalyan.,Topaloglu, Huseyin. (2012) "A Randomized Linear Programming Method for Network Revenue Management with Product-Specific No-Shows", Transportation Science , 46 (1), 90–108
• Kunnumkal, Sumit.,Topaloglu, Huseyin. (2011) "A Stochastic Approximation Algorithm to Compute Bid Prices for Joint Capacity Allocation and Overbooking Over an Airline Network", Naval Research Logistics Quarterly , 58 (4), 323–343
• Kunnumkal, Sumit.,Topaloglu, Huseyin. (2011) "Linear Programming Based Decomposition Methods for Inventory Distribution Systems", European Journal of Operational Research , 211 (2), 282–297
• Kunnumkal, Sumit.,Topaloglu, Huseyin. (2011) "A Randomized Linear Program for the Network Revenue Management Problem with Customer Choice Behavior", Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management , 10 (5), 455–470
• Kunnumkal, Sumit.,Huseyin Topaloglu. (2010) "Computing Time-Dependent Bid-Prices in Network Revenue Management Problems", Transportation Science , 44 (1), 38-62
• Kunnumkal, Sumit.,Topaloglu, Huseyin. (2010) "A Stochastic Approximation Algorithm with Max-Norm Projections and its Application to the Q-Learning Algorithm", ACM Transactions on Computer Modeling and Simulation , 20 (3)
• Kunnumkal, Sumit.,Huseyin Topaloglu. (2010) "A New Dynamic Programming Decomposition Method for the Network Revenue Management Problem with Customer Choice Behavior", Production and Operations Management , 19 (5), 575–590
• Kunnumkal, Sumit.,Topaloglu, Huseyin. (2010) "A Stochastic Approximation Algorithm for Making Pricing Decisions in Network Revenue Management Problems", Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management , 9 (5), 419–442
• Kunnumkal, Sumit.,Huseyin Topaloglu. (2009) "A Stochastic Approximation Method for the Revenue Management Problem on a Single Flight Leg with Discrete Demand Distributions", Mathematical Methods of Operations Research , 70 (3), 477–504
• Kunnumkal, Sumit.,Huseyin Topaloglu. (2008) "A Tractable Revenue Management Model for Capacity and Overbooking Over an Airline Network", Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal , 20 (3), 125-147
• Kunnumkal, Sumit.,Huseyin Topaloglu. (2008) "Exploiting the Structural Properties of the Underlying Markov Decision Problem in Q-Learning Algorithm", INFORMS Journal on Computing , 20 (2), 288-301
• Kunnumkal, Sumit.,Huseyin Topaloglu. (2008) "Price Discounts in Exchange for Reduced Customer Demand Variability and Applications to Advance Demand Information Acquisition", International Journal of Production Economics , 111 (2), 543-561
• Kunnumkal, Sumit.,Huseyin Topaloglu. (2008) "A Refined Deterministic Linear Program for the Network Revenue Management Problem with Customer Choice Behavior", Naval Research Logistics Quarterly , 55 (6), 563–580
• Kunnumkal, Sumit.,Huseyin Topaloglu. (2008) "Using Stochastic Approximation Methods to Compute Optimal Base-Stock Levels in Inventory Control Problems", Operations Research , 56 (3), 646–664
• Kunnumkal, Sumit.,Huseyin Topaloglu. (2008) "A Duality-Based Relaxation and Decomposition Approach for Inventory Distribution Systems", Naval Research Logistics Quarterly , 55 (7), 612–631
• Kunnumkal, Sumit.,Huseyin Topaloglu. (2006) "Approximate Dynamic Programming Methods for an Inventory Allocation Problem under Uncertainty", Naval Research Logistics Quarterly , 53 (8), 822–841