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Achal Bassamboo

Achal Bassamboo

Assistant Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences

Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences

PhD, Stanford U, 2005; M.S., Stanford U, 2004; B.Tech, Indian Inst. of Tech - Delhi, 2000.

 
Academic Positions Held
  Kellogg School of Management, 2006-present.
Assistant Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences
   
  Kellogg School of Management, 2005-2006.
Donald P. Jacobs Scholar in Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences
   
  Stanford University, 2001-2005.
Research and Teaching Assistant
   
Courses / Topics Taught
  OPNS 430 - Operations Management
   
Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
  Robert K. Jaedicke Merit Fellowship, Stanford U, 2000-2001
   
Research Areas
  -Applied probability and stochastic models
  -Stochastic systems: performance analysis and optimal control
  -Revenue management
  -Operations management
  -Rare event simulation
   
Current Projects
  "Pointwise stationary stochastic fluid models: A tractable framework for design and control of large-scale service systems." (with J.M. Harrison and A. Zeevi).
   
  "Portfolio credit risk with extremal dependence." (with S. Juneja and A. Zeevi).
   
  "Optimal use of manufacturing capacity options in the pharmaceutical industry." (with J. Cavallaro and S. Zenios).
   
Representative Publications
  "Dynamic routing and admission control in high-volume service systems: Asymptotic analysis via multi-scale fluid limits." (With J.M. Harrison and A. Zeevi). Submitted to Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications, October 2004.
   
  "Performance of importance sampling simulation in the presence of heavy-tails" (with S. Juneja and A. Zeevi). Submitted to Operations Research Letters, August 2004.
   
  "Design and control of a large call center: Asymptotic analysis of an LP-based method" (with J.M. Harrison and A. Zeevi). Submitted to Operations Research, June 2004.
   
  "Efficient winner determination techniques in a single item multiple unit auction" (with M. Gupta and S. Juneja). Proceedings of First IFIP Conference on E-commerce, E-business, and E-government, 2001.
   
  "A Heuristic for Job shop Scheduling under a two class case" (with S. Jain, A. Sood and R. Kumar). Proceedings of POMS99: International Conference on Operations Management for the Global Economy, POMS USA and IIT Delhi, 1999.
   
  "Gripper design for cylindrical objects" (with D. Arora and S.K. Saha). Proceeding of the 18th All India Manufacturing Technology Design and Research Conference, IIT Kharagpur, December 1998.
   
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