The Ph.D. Program prepares students to conduct state-of-the-art research and to become highly effective instructors so they can assume faculty positions in business schools at leading universities. Our students' accomplishments serve as evidence that our program is successful in turning out some of the best.

Faculty at UConn are required to publish research in high quality journals, to continually improve their teaching skills, and to provide service to the field of marketing, UConn, and the School of Business. Students gain experience in each of these areas during their time spent in the doctoral program. They are invited to present research and provide other services at major marketing conferences, they identify and develop their areas of interest for research and teaching, they begin teaching their second year in the program, and some have the opportunity to teach at the graduate level before they leave.

Highlighted below are some of the outstanding accomplishments Operations and Information Management students have made as they learn to balance the demands of an intensive program and rewarding career.

*Papers accepted for conference presentations are not included here. Most students have one or more papers accepted for presentation at one or more conferences per year - individually or with co-authors.

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Current Students

Rohit Aggarwal

• 2007, Aggarwal, Rohit, Ram Gopal, Ramesh Sankaranarayanan, Negative Blogs, Positive Outcomes: When should Firms Permit Employees to Blog Honestly?, Networks, Electronic Commerce and Telecommunications (NET) Institute



• 2007, Aggarwal, Rohit, Ram Gopal and Ramesh Sankaranarayanan, Employee Blogs: Is Honesty the Best Policy for the Firm?, INFORMS, Seattle. WA. November 4-7, 2007



• 2006, Aggarwal, Rohit, Ram Gopal, Ramesh Sankaranarayanan. Blog, Blogger and the Firm: An Analysis of Employee Incentives and Firm Policies. 16th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS)



• 2004, Aggarwal, Rohit. Information Technology Outsourcing Decisions: Impact of Relational Norms on Sourcing Decisions. Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS)

Preetam Basu

• 2006, Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Connecticut



• 2006, Summer Fellowship, University of Connecticut

Zheng Chen

• 2006, Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Connecticut

Sanjukta Das Smith

• 2002-2004, Outstanding Scholars Program (OSP) Fellowship Award, University of Connecticut



• 2006, Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, University of Connecticut



• 2005, Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Connecticut



• 2004,2005, Summer Fellowship, University of Connecticut



• Summer of 2005, Research funding from the Rich Fund for the CITI at the University of Connecticut



• 2004, Market Design for Grid Computing, with Ravi Bapna, Robert Garfinkel, and Jan Stallaert, Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems WITS 2004, Washington DC



• Member, Clarkson University Chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma, Honor Society, AACSB



• Merit based tuition assistantship form Clarkson University

Matthew Dean

• 2006,Thompson, S., Nunez, M., Garfinkel, R., and Dean, M., “Improving the Efficiency of Hospital Operations with Decision Support”, Proceedings of the First Conference of the INFORMS Optimization Society (2006), San Antonio, TX.



• 2006, Dean, M., “Real-Time Allocation of Time Slots for Cardiac Diagnostic Testing,” POMS Conference (2006), Boston, MA. Abstract # 004-0375.



• 2006, Thompson, S., Nunez, M., Garfinkel, R. and Dean, M., “Efficient Short Term Allocation of Patients to Floors of a Hospital During Demand Surges”, INFORMS Annual Meeting (2006), Pittsburgh, PA.

Dan Ke

• 2001, Inevitable Trend of Modern Logistics: Fourth Party Logistics, Journal of Tianjin University, Dec. 2001

Nishant Kumar

• 2006, Nishant Kumar, Girish Saraph, “End-to-End QoS in Interdomain Routing,” icns, p82, International Conference on Networking and Services (ICNS), Silicon Valley, USA, July 2006

Qindong Liu

• 2005, OVATION Award, granted by IBM for the outstanding performance in ABC project management



• 2004, OVATION Award, granted by IBM for the outstanding performance in service business



• 2002, Honor Student, New Employee Development Program (NEDP) Foundation School, IBM GCG



• 1998-2002, Renmin Scholarship, Beijing Institute of Technology