Sridhar Tayur 
University Professor and Distinguished Research Chair | Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA, UNITED STATES
Biography
Sridhar Tayur's research interests involve quantum computing, health care operations and supply chain management. He has called himself an "academic capitalist," having founded supply chain software company SmartOps (acquired by SAP) that created the market for Enterprise Inventory Optimization (EIO), and then created OrganJet, a company that helps match multi-list people who need a kidney or a liver transplant with available organs and ensures them fast transportation via private jet to a transplant center.
Areas of Expertise (1)
Business/Economics
Education (3)
Cornell University: Ph.D., Operations Research and Industrial Engineering,
Cornell University: M.S., Operations Research and Industrial Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Madras: B.Tech., Mechanical Engineering
Media Appearances (1)
SpaceX prepares to send first all-civilian crew into orbit
Reuters online
2021-09-12
"Do you have to be both rich and brave to get on these flights right now?" Sridhar Tayur, a professor of operations management and new business models at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, asked in an interview with Reuters on Friday.
