Introduction
As the CenturyLink endowed chair in global communications and technology management and a professor of operations and supply chain management, Sameer Kumar, PhD, is focused on providing research leadership and a strong commitment to teaching and service.
Kumar has published extensively in the areas of health care systems, supply chain modeling, and new product development, with a substantial record of archival journal publications and scholarly books. He is among the top 2 percent of the most-cited scientists in the Business and Management field, of the world's nearly 7 million working scientists in more than 200 subject fields of scientific research, according to a study by Stanford scholars. Kumar is active on academic journal editorial boards, including as associate editor of the IEEE Engineering Management Review, Decision Sciences Journal, Industrial Management and Data Systems, and International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, and as book series advisor of Supply Chain Management, Operations and Systems Engineering for the publishing firm Taylor and Francis.
His research is published in Production and Operations Management, Decision Sciences, European Journal of Operational Research, Annals of Operations Research, Omega, IISE Transactions, the Journal of Operational Research Society, the International Journal of Production Economics, the International Journal of Production Research, Operations Management Research, Supply Chain Management, the Journal of Business Logistics, International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, the Journal of Manufacturing Systems, IEEE Transactions on Engineering-Management, Computers and Industrial Engineering, Technovation, Interfaces, International Journal of Information Management, Journal of Knowledge Management, Journal of Enterprise Information Management, Social Science and Medicine, Waste Management and more.
Kumar has received research grants from NSF, the state of Wisconsin, and the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and he received the 2000 Star of Excellence Quality award from Medtronic for a successful design of assembly line using PROMODEL Simulation Software. In 2009, he received the Goodeve Medal for the best paper published in the Journal of the Operational Research Society. At St. Thomas, he was the recipient of the 2013 John Ireland Presidential Professor for outstanding achievement as a teacher/scholar. Honored to receive the lifelong ASCM CPIM Fellow Award in March 2026, recognizing sustained professional achievement in supply chain and operations management. I am also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, UK, an honor awarded in 2022.