Team
Core Group Members
Mehmet Eren Ahsen
Dr. Mehmet (Eren) Ahsen is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration at the Gies College of Business and Health Innovation Professor at the Carle Illinois School of Medicine, the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Prior, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Genetic and Genomic Sciences at the Icahn School Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital. He earned his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Texas at Dallas. His research broadly addresses the use of information and information technology to reduce inefficiencies in healthcare. In particular, he is interested in theoretical machine learning and its applications to improve decision-making in healthcare organizations.
Subhonmesh Bose
Subhonmesh Bose is an Assistant Professor and Stanley Helm Fellow in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Coordinated Science Laboratory at UIUC. His research focuses on facilitating the integration of renewable and distributed energy resources into the grid, leveraging tools from optimization, control, and game theory. Before joining UIUC, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Atkinson Center for Sustainability at Cornell University. Prior to that, he received his MS and Ph.D. degrees from Caltech in 2012 and 2014, respectively. He received the NSF CAREER Award in 2021. His research projects have been supported by grants from the NSF, PSERC, Siebel Energy Institute, and C3.ai, among others.
Albert C. England III
Dr. England wants all patients to know that his door is always open, and so are the lines of communication. He is a third generation physician with a passion for helping people. His teachers shaped his love of the medicine of infectious disease.
“It allows me to practice medicine and exercise my sense of curiosity and love of investigating things,” Dr. England said.
That love of investigation was put to good use when he served as an epidemic service intelligence officer at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. His responsibilities included Legionnaires ’ disease, listeriosis, histoplasmosis and hospital infections.
Dr. England is married with four grown children and four grandchildren. He enjoys being active and volunteering at church.
Anton Ivanov
Anton Ivanov is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL. His research interests stand at the intersection of information systems, healthcare analytics, and social media with a focus on the role of user-generated content in shaping business and social outcomes. Recently he has been actively working on COVID-19 related topics along with SHIELD Illinois and as part of Gies COVID-19 response team. He has received grants from C3.ai, Grainger College of Engineering, and Gies College of Business. Ivanov has extensively published in leading management and scientific journals. Some of his research papers relevant to the proposal include: Ivanov et al. (2023), Mukherjee et al. (2021); Souyris et al. (2022), Hao et al. (2022).
Ujjal Kumar Mukherjee
Ujjal Kumar Mukherjee is an Associate Professor at Gies College of Business and Health Innovation Professor at Carle Illinois College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on product recalls, technology development in the medical device and pharmaceutical industries, healthcare analytics, and machine learning applications in precision medicine. He has conducted field studies on surgical robots in hospitals and has been actively involved in COVID-19 research. Mukherjee has received grants from NSF and C3.ai and has worked on a multi-university FDA project for drug quality evaluation. He has published extensively in management, statistical, and medical journals.
Yixin Iris Wang
Iris Wang is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at the Gies College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her main research interests are empirical pharmaceutical supply chain management and human interactions in operations management. She has worked extensively with large-scale data and investigated how supply networks, strategic policy reactions, and behavioral business decisions affect company performance. She has worked in collaboration with U.S. academic medical centers and conducted experiments with pharmacy retail chains in China. Her research has been recognized by several awards and received honorable mentions at paper competitions.
Mili Mehrotra
Mili Mehrotra is an Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She received her Ph.D. in Operations Management in 2010 from the University of Texas at Dallas. Her research lies in the domain of socially-responsible supply chains and operations management. In particular, she is interested in developing and analyzing incentive schemes, and studying coordination and optimization issues that arise in practice due to the actions taken by a wide variety of stakeholders to achieve broader social objectives. She is also interested in using discrete models for analyzing problems in service operations, production planning, and logistics. Her papers have been accepted for publication in Management Science, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Operations Research, and Production & Operations Management. She currently serves as an Associate Editor for Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, Production & Operations Management, and Naval Research Logistics.
Sebastian Souyris
Sebastian Souyris is an Assistant Professor of Supply Chain and Analytics, holding the Dean R. Wellington ’83 (Junior) Chair at the Lally School of Management, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Professor Souyris obtained his Ph.D. in information, risk, and operations management from The University of Texas at Austin in 2019. He joined Lally in 2022 from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he was a visiting assistant professor at the Gies College of Business. In addition, he obtained an M.Phil. in operations management from New York University, and a bachelor’s (industrial engineering) and master’s (operations management) degree from the University of Chile.
Sebastian’s research broadly addresses issues related to the challenges and the means of achieving environmental and human sustainability combining data-driven optimization, machine learning, and econometrics. He has developed impactful analytic solutions for sustainability, health care, logistics, media, and sports. His work has been published in Operations Research, Production and Operations Management, the European Journal of Operations Research, and the INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics, among other outlets. In addition, he is an INFORMS Franz Edelman Laureate, a finalist of the EURO Excellence in Practice Award, and a prizewinner of the INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Practice Award.
Sridhar Seshadri
Sridhar Seshadri obtained his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley after graduating from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India and the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India. He is currently the Alan J and Joyce D Baltz Professor in the Geis College of Business and a Health Innovation Professor at the Carle Illinois College of Medicine. His current research projects focus on applications of analytics to different policy questions. These include Healthcare as part of the Heartgroup, the Development of Micro, Small and Medium Manufacturing Enterprises in India, and Sourcing and Risk Management in Global Supply Networks. His professional service includes serving as the Associate Editor, Naval Research Logistics; Associate Editor, Management Science, and Department Editor (Operations and Finance Interface), Production and Operations Management Journal.
Dmitrii Sumkin
Dmitrii Sumkin is a Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before starting at Gies College of Business, I completed my Ph.D. at INSEAD. Prior to the Ph.D., I earned my M.A. in Economics from New Economic School in Moscow, as well as my M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics and Physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. His research domains are service operations and sustainable operations. He focuses on how firms apply technological innovation to improve business processes, create new customer experiences, and facilitate social responsibility. In particular, he studies how the firm should design blockchain-enabled digital collectibles markets (NFTs) with limited supply; how blockchain may affect responsibility level in the diamonds supply chain. He is also interested in how AI-empowered personalized recommendations and customer-facing technology affects what people choose to eat in restaurants.
Ron Watkins
Currently serving as Associate Vice President for Strategic Initiatives at the University of Illinois reporting to the President. Recently responsible for starting up the covidSHIELD testing unit to serve the State of Illinois. He holds a Clinical Professor appointment in the Gies College of Business.
Before joining the president’s office, Ron was the Assoc Dean for Strategy & Innovation at the Gies College of Business, in industry for ten years, and served on active duty as an officer in the US Army.
Mr. Watkins received his B.S. in Communication and Business from Eastern Illinois University, an M.B.A. from the University of Illinois, and is currently a PhD student in Community Health in the College of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Illinois.
Other Group Members
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Mitch Goodman, Experienced Healthcare Supply Chain Professional
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Padmavati Sridhar, Graduate Student, UC Berkeley School of Information