Students in the Decision Science area focus on managing risk and developing "application-driven theory" to solve real-world problems. The faculty works on decision making under uncertainty, quantitative finance and numerical methods for solving financial models, risk management in the area of insurance, and on statistical models, machine learning, data analytics, and data mining.

Students in the Information Systems area focus on understanding the impact of information technology on individuals, organizations, and society. The faculty works in areas such as the economics of digital products, digital marketplaces, social media, strategic IT management, the business value of IT, virtual teams and collaboration technologies, healthcare IT, data mining and business analytics, artificial intelligence, blockchain, Internet of Things and design science using methods including econometric analysis, machine learning, experiments, qualitative research, and mathematical modeling.

Students in the Operations Management area learn how to develop and apply analytical and empirical models and methods to address strategic and operational issues in areas such as supply chains, manufacturing, services, healthcare, sustainability, not-for-profit operations, pricing, revenue management, project management, and product design. Students are trained in various methodologies to research these areas, including optimization, economics, stochastic models, statistics, econometrics, and simulation.

Students in the Statistics area focus on the theory and methods of statistics, emphasizing business applications. Students are exposed to both Bayesian and classical approaches to inference and modern computational statistical tools. Several of the courses students take in the area are shared with the Department of Statistics and Data Sciences. The main difference between the programs is the strong emphasis on business applications. 

Wanxue Dong | 2023 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Hale Erkan | 2024| Arizona State University

Zhouran Jiang | 2024| HEC Paris

Ruijiang Gao | 2024 | University of Texas at Dallas

Yilin He | 2024 | ByteDance Ltd

Zijian (Jacob) Zeng | 2022 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Jingyao Huang | 2022 | University of Missouri-Kansas City

Paola Martin | 2022 | Indiana University 

Vasundhara | 2022 | Indian School of Business

Haoyuan Liu  |  2022  |  Nanyang Technological University 

Alek Dimitriev  |  2022  |  Google

Rohit Arora  |  2022  |  Qontigo 

Junjie "Henry" Qian  |  2021  |  ByteDance

Cenying "Tracy" Yang  |  2021  |  City University of Hong Kong

Tan Wang  |  2021  |  Expedia Group

Subrahmanyam "Aditya" Karanam  |  2021  |  National University of Singapore

Paul Cronin  |  2020  |  The Home Depot

Parshuram Hotkar  |  2020  |  Indian School of Business

Haris Krijestorac  |  2020  |  HEC Paris

Xiaofan Li  |  2020  |  National University of Singapore

Yixuan Liu  |  2020  |  Purdue University

Quan Zhang  |  2020  |  Michigan State University

Yuxin Zhang  |  2020  |  Wayne State University

Jared Fisher  |  2019  |  University of California, Berkeley

Sebastian Souyris  |  2019  |  University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Long Zhao  |  2019  |  National University of Singapore

Shi Ying Lim  |  2018  |  National University of Singapore

Vishwakant Malladi  |  2018  |  Indian School of Business

Chinmoy Mohapatra | 2018 | BNSF Railways

David Puelz | 2018 | The University of Chicago

Abhishek Roy | 2018 | Temple University 

Changseung Yoo | 2018 | McGill University 

Emre Yucel | 2018 | HomeAway 

Samuel Blazek | 2017 | Two Six Technologies 

Yanzhen Chen | 2017 | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Gorkem Turgut "G.T." Ozer | 2017 | University of Maryland, College Park