Decision Sciences Student Association

(Azoury Bollapragada Cholette Elimam Eng Mehrotra Miyaoka Özluk Roeder Saltzman Soorapanth Southman Uday)

Robert Saltzman Ph.D.
Decision Sciences Department Chair
Robert Saltzman teaches courses in operations management, decision modeling with spreadsheets, simulation, and business statistics in the College of Business at San Francisco State University. He earned his PhD in Operations Research at Stanford University (1989), and holds a bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics from Brown University (1981). His research interests are in applied optimization and animated simulation modeling.

Özgur Özluk Ph.D.
Assistant Professor and DSSA Faculty Adviser
Dr Ozluk teaches Operations Management related courses as an Assistant Professor at SFSU College of Business, Department of Decision Sciences since Fall 2003. He obtained his PhD in Operations Research from UNC Chapel Hill in 1999. After getting his PhD degree, he spent three years working for Airline Scheduling company (Caleb Tech, Texas) and at the Revenue Management division of Manugistics, Inc. He is currently involved in the following research areas: 1· Spreadsheet Engineering (currently working on a literature survey and field study) 2· Practices of Revenue Management 3· Business Applications of Mathematical Programming (currently examining a Pipeline Distribution/Planning for Oil Refineries)

Theresa Roeder Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Theresa Roeder joined the Department of Decision Sciences in 2005, after receiving her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in 2004. Her research is primarily in the field of discrete-event computer simulation, where she has worked extensively with the semiconductor industry. There, the focus is on investigating alternate approaches to simulation that would reduce the run times and/or development times. Theresa is originally from Germany, and moved to California in 1999 after a 5-year stint at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. She is a happy member of the Oakland Symphony Chorus, on whose board she also serves.

Susan Cholette Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Susan Cholette is an Assistant Professor of Decision Sciences in the College of Business at San Francisco State University. She has prepared for and taught classes at both graduate and undergraduate levels in statistics, operations, supply chain management, and project management, as well as served as an adviser for master’s theses, internships and independent study classes. Her research interests include supply chain management, especially as applied to the wine industry, and most recently has finished managing a project to match wineries to specialty distributors, under a DoE Business in International Education grant. She is currently investigating measuring and improving the energy usage and emissions efficiency (often referred to popularly as the “carbon footprint”) of food distribution networks... more

Julia Miyaoka Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Julia Miyaoka is an Assistant Professor in the Decision Sciences Department at San Francisco State University. She completed her PhD in the Management Science and Engineering Department at Stanford in 2003. Her research interests are in the area of supply chain management and she teaches operations management at SFSU. Prior to her PhD, she worked in manufacturing/industrial engineering positions at Applied Imaging, Baxter International, and Raychem Corporation. Julia received a BS degree in Industrial Engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo and an MS degree in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Stanford.

Sada Soorapanth Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Sada Soorapanth received her PhD from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in Industrial and Operations Engineering, MS from the University of Houston in Industrial Engineering, and BEng from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, in Chemical Engineering.

Her research interests are in statistical modeling, decision analysis, and discrete-event simulation with applications in healthcare and manufacturing. Her current research involves developing probabilistic models and conducting economic analyses (e.g. cost-effectiveness, cost-utility and cost-benefit analysis) of public health policy... more

Jamie Eng Ph.D.
Professor

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Ramesh Bollapragada Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Ramesh Bollapragada was born in India. Having lived in Hyderabad, India for 21 years, he moved to U.S. in 1991. Ramesh Bollapragada teaches in the Decision Sciences department of the COB, SFSU, since August, 2002. Over the past 5 years, he taught courses for EMBA, MBA and Undergraduates in the areas of Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Business Forecasting, Total Quality Systems and Mangerial Statistics. Prior to joining SFSU, Ramesh was a Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies in Holmdel, NJ for six years, working in the areas of Inventory and Supply Chain Management, Telecommunications Network Planning. He has worked for 6 months in the Manufacturing Research Center at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY as a summer intern in 1994. He also has 2 years experience in Process Automation and Control in India... more

V. Udayabhanu Ph.D.
Professor

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James Southam Ph.D.
Professor

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