FACULTY AND STAFF

Jatinder (Jeet) N. D. Gupta, Ph.D.

Eminent Scholar in Management of Technology Professor of Management Information Systems Office: Business Administration Bldg. 126E Phone: 256.824.6593 Fax: 256.824.2929 Email: Jeet.Gupta@uah.edu Webpage: http://cba.uah.edu/guptaj

Education

PhD - Industrial Engineering, minors: Systems Analysis and Economics, Texas Tech University
M. Tech - Industrial Engineering and Operations Research - Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
B. E. - Mechanical Engineering, Delhi University, Delhi, India
Executive Development Program, US Postal Service
Advanced Information Systems Faculty Development Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Global Information Technology Faculty Development Symposium, University of Memphis, TN
Manufacturing Strategy workshops, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina and Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

Research and Teaching Interests

• Technology Management
• E-Commerce
• Supply Chain Management
• Operations Management
• Scheduling
• Planning and Control
• Information Systems
• Educational Curriculum
• Academic Administration
• Enhancing the delivery of instructional material through advanced technologies including distance learning and organizational effectiveness

Selected Affiliations, Awards, and Achievements

Dr. Gupta has served as the Vice-President for Publications of the Production and Operations Management Society, Regionally Elected Vice-President for the Decision Sciences Institute, Vice-President of Education for the Central Indiana Chapter of APICS, President of the Indianapolis Chapter of IIE, and President of Midwest DSI. He serves on the editorial boards of several national and international journals and currently serves as an Associate Editor of Decision Sciences

Recipient of the Outstanding Faculty and Outstanding Researcher Awards from Ball State University, Dr. Gupta was nominated (and was one of three finalists) for the award of Dean James Chair for Distinguished Teaching at the University of Baltimore. At Sangamon State University, he was voted as one of the five best faculty advisors by the students. Earlier, he received the Superior Job Performance Award at the Energy Information Administration.

Dr. has published about 200 research and technical papers in such journals as Operations Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Annals of Operations Research, International Journal of Information Management, Mathematics of Operations Research, IIE Transactions, Naval Research Logistics, and European Journal of Operational Research. He has edited special issues of Computers and Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, and Production Planning and Control. Dr. Gupta has received several awards for his research work including the P-W Industries Award for Best Application Paper. He was inducted as Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute, highest honor bestowed in that profession. Co-author of a textbook in Operations Research, he has co-edited a book on Neural Networks in Business and has co-authored several chapters in E-commerce, learning organizations, and knowledge management. He has lectured widely in Australia, Brazil, Hong Kong, Singapore, England, Holland, Spain, Italy, Canada, and several other countries in Europe and Asia. He is often invited for seminars and colloquia by international professional and academic groups on bleeding edge topics in Information Technology and Operations Management. His most recent colloquium on Collaborative Logistics in E-Commerce and Global Business won him acclaim in Spain and was covered by several newspaper articles.

Selected Recent Publications

• Gupta, J. N. D., “An excursion in scheduling theory," Invited Paper Production Planning and Control: An International Journal, Vol. 13, No. 2, 2002, pp. 105-116.
• Sharma, S. K., and Gupta, J. N. D., “Application service providers: Issues and challenges,” Logistics Information Management, An International Journal, Vol. 15, No. 3, 2002, pp. 160-169.
• Kohli, R., and Gupta, J. N. D., “Effectiveness of systems analysis and design education: an exploratory study," Journal of End User Computing, Vol. 14, No. 3, 2002, pp. 16-31.
• Gupta, J. N. D., and Sharma, S. K., Cybershopping and Privacy in Managing Business with Electronic Commerce: Issues and Trends, Gangopadhyay, A. (ed). Idea Group Publishing, Harrisburg, PA, 2002.
• Sharma, S. K., and Gupta, J. N. D., E-commerce opportunities and challenges, in E-commerce Diffusion: Strategies and Challenges, Singh M., and T. Teo (eds). Heidelberg Press, Heidelberg, Australia, 2001.
• Gupta, J. N. D., “Information systems, business process reengineering, and operations research: forging partnerships for mutual advantage," Belgian Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 40, 2001, pp. 7-24.
• Sexton, R. S., and Gupta, J. N. D., “Comparative evaluation of genetic algorithm and backpropagation for training neural networks," Information Sciences: An International Journal, Vol. 129, 2000, pp. 45-59.
• Smith, K. A., and Gupta, J. N. D., “Neural networks in business: Techniques and applications for the operations researcher," Computers and Operations Research, Vol. 27, No. 11-12, 2000, pp. 1023-1044.
• Gupta, J. N. D., Sexton, R. S., and Tunc, E. A., “Selecting a scheduling heuristic through neural networks," INFORMS Journal of Computing, Vol. 12, No. 2, 2000, pp. 150-162.
• Amba-Rao, S., Petrick, J. A., Gupta, J. N. D., and Von der Embse, T. J., “Comparative performance appraisal practices and management values among foreign and domestic firms in India," The International Journal of Human Resource Management, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2000, pp. 60-89.
• Glass, C. A., Gupta, J. N. D., and Potts, C. N., “Two-machine no-wait flow shop scheduling with missing operations," Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 24, No. 4., 1999, pp. 911-924.
• Allahverdi, A., Gupta, J. N. D., and Aldowaisan, T., “A review of scheduling research involving setup considerations," OMEGA, Vol. 27, 1999, pp. 219-239.

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