- R. Mallipeddi, S. Kumar, C. Sriskandarajah, and Y. Zhu, “A Framework for Analyzing Influencer Marketing in Social Networks: Selection and Scheduling of Influencers,” Management Science, Forthcoming.
- Received Third Place in the INFORMS 2018 IBM Service Science Best Student Paper Award, Phoenix, Arizona, November 2018.
- “What’s Next for Social Media Influencer Marketing?,” Fox School News, November 2017.
- W. Chen, Y. Lu, L. Qiu, and S. Kumar “Designing Personalized Treatment Plans for Breast Cancer,” Information Systems Research, Forthcoming.
- Best Paper Runner Up, Conference on Health IT and Analytics (CHITA), October 8-10, 2020.
- R. Mallipeddi, R. Janakiraman, S. Kumar, and S. Gupta, “The Effects of Social Media Content Created by Human Brands on Engagement: Evidence from Indian General Election 2014,” Information Systems Research, Forthcoming.
- M. Rivera, L. Qiu, S. Kumar, and A. Petrucci, “Are Traditional Performance Reviews Outdated? An Empirical Analysis on Continuous, Real-Time Feedback in the Workplace,” Information Systems Research, Forthcoming.
- M. Chen, M. Pang, and S. Kumar, “Do You Have a Room for Us in Your IT? An Economic Analysis of Shared IT Services and Implications for IT Industries,” MIS Quarterly, Forthcoming.
- R. Chen, S. Kumar, J. Singhal, and K. Singhal, “The Value and Cost of the Customer’s Waiting Time,” Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Forthcoming.
- J. Kistler, R. Janakiraman, S. Kumar, and V. Tiwari, “The Effect of Operational Process Changes on Preoperative Patient Flow: Evidence from Field Research,” Production and Operations Management, Forthcoming.
- X. Chang, Y. Huang, M. Li, X. Bo, and S. Kumar, “Efficient Detection of Environmental Violators: A Big Data Approach,” Production and Operations Management, Forthcoming.
- S. Kumar, J. Singhal, and K. Singhal, “A Programmed Method for Generating New Product Ideas from an Existing Product Line,” Decision Sciences, Forthcoming.
- W. Fan, Y. Zong, and S. Kumar, “Optimal Treatment of Chronic Kidney Disease with Uncertainty in Obtaining a Transplantable Kidney: An MDP based approach,” Annals of Operations Research, Forthcoming.
- S. Youn, G. Heim, S. Kumar, and C. Sriskandarajah, “Examining Impacts of Clinical Practice Variation on Operational Performance,” Production and Operations Management, Vol. 30, 2021.
- Winner, Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) 2018 Best Student Best Paper Award, Chicago, Illinois, November 2018.
- Selected as a Finalist for the INFORMS 2017 IBM Service Science Best Student Paper Award.
- J.M. Stauffer and S. Kumar, “Impact of Incorporating Returns into Pre-Disaster Deployments for Rapid-Onset Predictable Disasters,” Production and Operations Management, Vol. 30, No. 2, February 2021, pp. 451–474.
- Finalist and Second Place in the POMS College of Humanitarian Operations and Crisis Management (HOCM) Best Paper Award Competition, POMS 2020.
- Finalist for the POMS 2019 College of Humanitarian Operations and Crisis Management (HOCM) Best Paper Award Competition, Washington D.C., May 2019.
- S. Kumar, “How Analytics Allowed the FCC to Save $7.3 Billion by Auctioning Underused Television Spectrum,” Management and Business Review, Winter 2021, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 206-208.
- J. Pei, P. Yan, S. Kumar, and X. Liu, “How to React to Internal and External Sharing in B2C and C2C,” Production and Operations Management, Vol. 30, No. 1, January 2021, pp. 145-170.
- Y. Huang, Y. Zhu, S. Kumar, B. Shetty, and C. Sriskandarajah, “A Framework for Analyzing the U.S. Coin Supply Chain,” Production and Operations Management, Vol. 29, No. 12, December 2020, pp. 2736-2759.
- S. Kumar, S. Narayanan, and F. Salvador, “Innovation in Supply Networks – A Research Framework and Roadmap,” Journal of Operations Management, Vol. 66, Issue 7-8, October-December 2020, pp. 754–767.
- R. Sen, J. Choobineh, and S. Kumar, “Determinants of Software Vulnerability Disclosure Timing,” Production and Operations Management, Vol. 29, No. 11, November 2020, pp. 2532-2552.
- H. Sun and S. Kumar, “A Manufacturer’s New Product Preannouncement Decision and the Supplier’s Response,” Production and Operations Management, Vol. 29, No. 10, October 2020, pp. 2289-2306.
- M.E. Ketzenberg, J.D. Abbey, G.R. Heim, and S. Kumar, “Assessing Customer Return Behaviors Through Data Analytics,” Journal of Operations Management, Vol. 66, Issue 6, September 2020, pp. 622–645.
- E.M. Demirezen, S. Kumar, and B. Shetty, “Two Is Better Than One: A Dynamic Analysis of Value Co-Creation,” Production and Operations Management, Vol. 29, No. 9, September 2020, pp. 2057–2076.
- A. Ghoshal, S. Kumar, and V.S. Mookerjee, “Dilemma of Data Sharing Alliance: When Do Competing Personalizing and Non-Personalizing Firms Share Data,” Production and Operations Management, Vol. 29, No. 8, August 2020, pp. 1918-1936.
- S. Kumar, “How can Competitors Share Data Opportunistically?,” ISB Insight, 2015.
- S. Kumar, Y. (Ricky) Tan, and L. Wei, “When to Play Your Advertisement? Optimal Insertion Policy of Behavioral Advertisement,” Information Systems Research, Vol. 31, No. 2, June 2020, pp. 589-606.
- D. Liu, S. Kumar, and V.S. Mookerjee, “Flexible and Committed Advertising Contracts in Electronic Retailing,” Information Systems Research, Vol. 31, No. 2, June 2020, pp. 323-339.
- Best Paper Award, China Information Economics Society, November 2020.
- T. Rajapakshe, S. Kumar, A. Sen, and C. Sriskandarajah, “Sustainability Planning for Healthcare Information Exchanges with Supplier Discount Program,” Operations Research, Vol. 68, No. 3, May-June 2020, pp. 793–817.
- N. Kumar, D. Venugopal, L. Qiu, and S. Kumar, “Detecting Anomalous Online Reviewers: An Unsupervised Approach Using Mixture Models,” Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 36, No. 4, 2019, pp. 1313–1346.
- S. Khurana, L. Qiu, and S. Kumar, “When a Doctor Knows, It Shows: An Empirical Analysis of Doctors’ Responses in Q&A Forum of an Online Healthcare Portal,” Information Systems Research, Vol. 30, No. 3, September 2019, pp. 872–891.
- K. Singhal, J. Singhal, and S. Kumar, “The Value of the Customer’s Waiting Time for General Queues,” Decision Sciences, Vol. 50, Issue 3, June 2019, pp. 567-581.
- A. Kumar, A. Mehra, and S. Kumar, “Why do Stores Drive Online Sales? Evidence of Underlying Mechanisms from a Multichannel Retailer,” Information Systems Research, Vol. 30, No. 1, March 2019, pp. 319-338.
- N. Kumar, L. Qiu, and S. Kumar, “Exit, Voice, and Response in Digital Platforms: An Empirical Investigation of Online Management Response Strategies,” Information Systems Research, Vol. 29, No. 4, December 2018, pp. 849-870.
- Best Paper Nomination in INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST), Houston, Texas, October 2017.
- “Is Online Management Responsiveness Good for Business?,” Fox School News, October 2017.
- S. Kumar, V. Mookerjee, and A. Shubham, “Research in Operations Management and Information Systems Interface,” Production and Operations Management, Vol. 27, No. 11, November 2018, pp. 1893-1905
- S. Guha and S. Kumar, “Emergence of Big Data Research in Operations Management, Information Systems, and Healthcare: Past Contributions and Future Roadmap,” Production and Operations Management, Vol. 27, No. 9, September 2018, pp. 1724-1735.
- A. Mehra, S. Kumar, and J.S. Raju, “Competitive Strategies for Brick-and-Mortar Stores to Counter “Showrooming”,” Management Science, Vol. 64, Issue 7, July 2018, pp. 3076-3090.
- Invited for Management Science Review Blogs. Available at https://www.informs.org/Blogs/ManSci-Blogs/Management-Science-Review/Competitive-Strategies-for-Brick-and-Mortar-Stores-to-Counter-Showrooming.
- B. Li and S. Kumar, “Should You Kill or Embrace Your Competitor: Cloud Service and Competition Strategy,” Production and Operations Management, Vol. 27, No. 5, May 2018, pp. 822–838.
- N. Kumar, D. Venugopal, L. Qiu, and S. Kumar, “Detecting Review Manipulation on Online Platforms with Hierarchical Supervised Learning,” Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 35, No. 1, 2018, pp. 350-380.
- L. Qiu and S. Kumar, “Understanding Voluntary Knowledge Provision and Content Contribution through a Social Media-Based Prediction Market: A Field Experiment,” Information Systems Research, Vol. 28, No. 3, September 2017, pp. 529-546.
- Selected as part of the INFORMS Editor’s Cut collection “Wisdom of the Crowd: Crowdsourcing Analytics.”
- O. Perdikaki, S. Kumar, and C. Sriskandarajah, “Managing Retail Budget Allocation between Store Labor and Marketing Activities,” Production and Operations Management, Vol. 26, No. 9, 2017, pp. 1615-1631.
- Selected as the Lead Article.
- S. Bhattacharjee, V. Jacob, Z. Jiang, and S. Kumar, “Introduction to WITS 2015 Special Issue in TMIS,” ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS), Vol. 8, Issue 2-3, August 2017, Article No. 4e.
- Y. Ji, S. Kumar, and S.P. Sethi, “Needle Exchange for Controlling HIV Spread Under Endogenous Infectivity,” INFOR: Information Systems and Operational Research, Vol. 55, No. 2, 2017, pp. 93-117.
- R. Mookerjee, S. Kumar, and V.S. Mookerjee, “Optimizing Performance Based Internet Advertisement Campaigns,” Operations Research, Vol. 65, No. 1, January-February 2017, pp. 38-54.
- Y. Ji, S. Kumar, and V. Mookerjee, “When Being Hot Is Not Cool: Monitoring Hot Lists for Information Security,” Information Systems Research, Vol. 27, No. 4, December 2016, pp. 897-918.
- E.M. Demirezen, S. Kumar, and B. Shetty, “Managing Co-Creation in Information Technology Projects: A Differential Games Approach,” Information Systems Research, Vol. 27, No. 3, September 2016, pp. 517-537.
- E.M. Demirezen, S. Kumar, and A. Sen, “Sustainability of Healthcare Information Exchanges: A Game-Theoretic Approach,” Information Systems Research, Vol. 27, No. 2, June 2016, pp. 240-258.
- Finalist, Best Paper Competition, “Double Sided Network Externalities in Healthcare Information Exchanges,” College of Healthcare Operations Management, Production and Operations Management Society Conference, Orlando, Florida, May 6-9, 2016.
- Featured in the Binghamton University Magazine, Fall 2016, pp. 6-9.
- M. Vanajakumari, S. Kumar, and S. Gupta, “An Integrated Logistic Model for Predictable Disasters,” Production and Operations Management, Vol. 25, No. 5, May 2016, pp. 791-811.
- E.M. Demirezen and S. Kumar, “Optimization of Recommender Systems Based on Inventory,” Production and Operations Management, Vol. 25, No. 4, April 2016, pp. 593-608.
- Selected as the Lead Article.
- Y. Zhu, S. Kumar, S. Rodriguez-Sanchez, and C. Sriskandarajah, “Managing Logistics in Regional Banknote Supply Chain under Security Concerns,” Production and Operations Management, Vol. 24, No. 12, December 2015, pp. 1966-1983.
- A. Ghoshal, S. Kumar, and V.S. Mookerjee, “Impact of Recommender Systems on Competition between Personalizing and Non-Personalizing Firms,” Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 31, No. 4, Spring 2015, pp. 243-277.
- D. Dey and S. Kumar, “Data Quality of Query Results with Generalized Selection Conditions,” Operations Research, Vol. 61, No. 1, Jan – Feb 2013, pp. 17-31.
- D. Liu, S. Kumar, and V.S. Mookerjee, “Advertising Strategies in Electronic Retailing: A Differential Games Approach,” Information Systems Research, Vol. 23, Issue 3 (Part – 2), Sep 2012, pp. 903–917.
- “Shrinking the Invisible Lines in Online Retailing,” Business Research in Action, Mays Business School, Texas A&M University, Spring 2013.
- Kumar, “Electronic Retailing: Increasing IT Capacity May Alienate Customers,” ISB Insight, Vol. 9, Issue 3, 2012, pp. 26-28.
- “Researchers from Texas A&M University Report on Findings in Management Science,” VerticalNews, December 8, 2012.
- R. Mookerjee, S. Kumar, and V.S. Mookerjee, “To Show or Not Show: Using User Profiling to Manage Internet Advertisement Campaigns,” Interfaces, Vol. 42, No. 5, Sep – Oct 2012, pp. 449–464.
- Finalist in The Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice sponsored by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2011.
- Kumar, “To Show or Not To Show: How to Manage Internet Advertisement Campaigns,” ISB Insight, Cover Story, Vol. 10, Issue 2, 2013, pp. 12-14.
- “Texas A&M University, College Station: To Show or Not Show: Using User Profiling to Manage Internet Advertisement Campaigns at Chitika,” Issues in Industrial Relations and Management: 2013 Edition, May 1, 2013, p. 431.
- N. Shah, S. Kumar, F. Bastani, and I. Yen, “Optimization Models for Assessing the Peak Capacity Utilization of Intelligent Transportation Systems,” European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 216, Issue 1, Jan 2012, pp. 239–251.
- Y. Ji, S. Kumar, V.S. Mookerjee, S.P. Sethi, and D. Yeh, “Optimal Enhancement and Lifetime of Software Systems: A Control Theoretic Analysis,” Production and Operations Management, Vol. 20, Number 6, Nov – Dec 2011, pp. 889–904.
- P. V. Balakrishnan, S. Kumar, and P. Han, “Dual Objective Segmentation to Improve Targetability: An Evolutionary Algorithm Approach,” Decision Sciences, Vol. 42, Issue 4, Nov 2011, pp. 831–857.
- D. Dey and S. Kumar, “Reassessing Data Quality for Information Products,” Management Science, Vol. 56, No. 12, Dec 2010, pp. 2316-2322.
- V.G. Kulkarni, S. Kumar, V.S. Mookerjee, and S.P. Sethi, “Optimal Allocation of Effort to Software Maintenance: A Queuing Theory Approach,” Production and Operations Management, Vol. 18, No. 5, Sep 2009, pp. 506-515.
- S. Kumar and S.P. Sethi, “Dynamic Pricing and Advertising for Web Content Providers,” European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 197, Issue 3, Sep 2009, pp. 924-944.
- M. Fan, S. Kumar, and A.B. Whinston, “Short-Term and Long-Term Competition between Providers of Shrink-Wrap Software and Software as a Service,” European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 196, Issue 2, July 2009, pp. 661-671.
- S. Kumar, K. Dutta, and V.S. Mookerjee, “Maximizing Business Value by Optimal Assignment of Jobs to Resources in Grid Computing,” European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 194, Issue 3, May 2009, pp. 856-872.
- M. Dawande, M. Johar, S. Kumar, and V.S. Mookerjee, “A Comparison of Pair versus Solo Programming under Different Objectives: An Analytical Approach,” Information Systems Research, Vol. 19, No. 1, Mar 2008, pp. 71-92.
- M. Dawande, S. Kumar, V.S. Mookerjee, and C. Sriskandarajah, “Maximum Commonality Problems: Applications and Analysis,” Management Science, Vol. 54, No. 1, Jan 2008, pp. 194-207.
- M. Fan, S. Kumar, and A.B. Whinston, “Selling or Advertising: Strategies of Providing Digital Media Online,” Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 24, No. 3, Winter 2007-8, pp. 143-166.
- S. Kumar, M. Dawande, and V.S. Mookerjee, “Optimal Scheduling and Placement of Internet Banner Advertisements,” IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (Featured Article), Vol. 19, No. 11, Nov 2007, pp. 1571-1584.
- S. Kumar, V.S. Jacob, and C. Sriskandarajah, “Scheduling Advertisements on a Web Page to Maximize Revenue,” European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 173, Issue 3, Sep 2006, pp. 1067-1089.
- S. Kumar, N. Ramanan, and C. Sriskandarajah, “Minimizing Cycle Time in Large Robotic Cells,” IIE Transactions, Vol. 37, No. 2, Feb 2005, pp. 123-136.
- Appeared as refereed abstract in Interfaces, Vol. 32, No. 5, Sep-Oct 2002, pp. 83-84.
- Featured in the Industrial Engineer Magazine, February 2005, p. 48.
- M. Dawande, S. Kumar, and C. Sriskandarajah, “Scheduling Web Advertisements: A Note on the MINSPACE Problem,” Journal of Scheduling, Vol. 8, Issue 1, 2005, pp. 97-106.
- M. Dawande, S. Kumar, and C. Sriskandarajah, “Performance Bounds of Algorithms for Scheduling Advertisements on a Web Page,” Journal of Scheduling, Vol. 6, Issue 4, July-Aug 2003, pp. 373-394.
- S. Kumar, T.P. Bagchi, and C. Sriskandarajah, “Lot Streaming and Scheduling Heuristics for m-machine No-wait Flowshops,” Computers and Industrial Engineering, Vol. 38, Issue 1, 2000, pp. 149-172.