Subject to: Ramayya Krishnan
Ramayya Krishnan is the W. W. Cooper and Ruth F. Cooper Professor of Management Science and Information Systems at the H. John Heinz III College of Information Systems and Public Policy and the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. He joined the CMU faculty in 1988. He is the Founding Dean of the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy and has held that position since 2009. Krishnan’s education spans engineering, operations research, statistics and computing (the data sciences). He studied Mechanical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology and then went on to complete a M.S. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at the Cockrell School of Engineering and a PhD in Management Science and Information Systems at the McCombs School of Business, both at the University of Texas at Austin. A distinctive feature of his work has been deep partnerships with firms and government agencies and the pursuit of work that has made foundational contributions to science while making a real-world impact. His multi-disciplinary research program has involved faculty and students, undergraduate and graduate, from nearly all the Colleges and Schools at the university. He has been a serial academic entrepreneur and established multiple, externally funded, university-wide research centers at CMU. He founded the Master of Information Systems Management program in 1998 and is currently leading the creation and launch of new undergraduate programs at the nexus of systems thinking, information systems, and data analytics. His scholarly contributions to Operations Research, Information Systems, and analytics, and his editorial and leadership activities resulted in his being elected an AAAS Fellow, an INFORMS Fellow, and a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. He has been deeply engaged in policy work both at home and abroad. He led the CMU Task Force supporting Gov. Wolf in economic recovery and reopening in 2020-2021. In 2022, he was appointed to the National AI advisory committee which is charged with advising the President and the White House National AI Initiatives Office. He is a recipient of the distinguished alumnus award of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras and the University of Texas at Austin. He served as the 25th President of INFORMS, the global operations research and analytics society, in 2019 and a three year term on its executive committee from 2017-2020.