Alok Baveja is a professor of supply chain management at Rutgers Business School. His expertise is in the use of innovative modeling and technologies for managing operations in the public and private sectors. He also is the cofounder of a not-for-profit organization that provides technical, planning, and financial assistance for rural- and women-empowerment programs in developing countries.

Baveja’s research has appeared in journals such as Mathematics of Operations Research, IEEE Transactions on SMC, California Management Review, and Harvard Business School’s case series. His work has been funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Transportation, The British Council, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and New Jersey Department of Health.

He has been associate editor for IIE Transactions on Scheduling and Logistics and is an associate editor for Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. He is the recipient of the Warren I. Susman Teaching Excellence Award, Rutgers’ highest teaching honor, and the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Teaching. Learn more about Baveja.