Sridhar Tayur

University Professor Carnegie Mellon University

  • Pittsburgh PA

Sridhar Tayur's research interests involve quantum computing, health care operations and supply chain management

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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

Quantum Computing
Healthcare Operations
Supply Chain Management

Media Appearances

Elon Musk, Trump and the Tesla boss's 'extraordinary conflicts of interest'

Yahoo! News  online

2024-11-07

This piece explores Elon Musk's support for Donald Trump and how it could help him secure government support for Tesla and easier regulations but highlights the potential conflicts of interest and reduced oversight. Sridhar Tayur (Tepper School of Business) explains that "EV tax credits will likely be reduced or eliminated, reducing the ability of Tesla’s competitors to compete, and could be a net benefit."

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Quantum Computing Offers Faster, Smarter Way to Identify Pneumonia from Chest X-Rays

Tepper School of Business News  online

2024-03-28

Early and accurate diagnosis of pneumonia is important as it accounts for about 15% of deaths in children younger than 5 years old, according to the World Health Organization. That’s where machine learning comes in, said Sridhar Tayur, Ford Distinguished Research Chair and University Professor of Operations Management in Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business.

“Machine learning is used for prediction, and in health care we want to predict if somebody has a disease or not,” he said. “If you give enough examples of images that have pneumonia and not pneumonia, because there are two cases, this is called binary classification.”

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Supply Chain Experts Weigh In: What Could Happen In 2022 As The Crisis Continues

Forbes  online

2021-12-07

Sridhar Tayur, professor of operations management at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business, said the future of the crisis depends on these 4 Ps: Product Prices, People and Politics.

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Industry Expertise

Logistics and Supply Chain
Computer Software
Computer Hardware
Health Care - Facilities

Accomplishments

INFORMS Service Science Best Paper Award - Finalist

2022

MSOM Best Paper Award

2022

INFORMS Public Sector (PSOR) Best Paper Award

2022

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Education

Cornell University

Ph.D.

Operations Research and Industrial Engineering

1990

Cornell University

M.S.

Operations Research and Industrial Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

B.Tech.

Mechanical Engineering

1986

Event Appearances

Causal Inference with Selectively Deconfounded Data

(2021) AISTATS  

Integer Programming techniques for minor-embedding in quantum annealers

(2020) CPAIOR  

Articles

Awarding additional MELD points to the shortest waitlist candidates improves sex disparity in access to liver transplant in the United States

American Journal of Transplantation

2022

Since the introduction of the MELD‐based allocation system, women are now 30% less likely than men to undergo liver transplant (LT) and have 20% higher waitlist mortality. These disparities are in large part due to height differences in men and women though no national policies have been implemented to reduce sex disparities. Patients were identified using the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) from 2014 to 2019.

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Designing AI‐augmented healthcare delivery systems for physician buy‐in and patient acceptance

Production and Operations Management

Production and Operations Management

2022

The role of artificial intelligence (AI) in augmenting healthcare is expected to grow substantially in future decades. Current research in medical AI focuses on developing, validating, and implementing point‐level AI applications in an ad hoc manner. To harness the full power of AI to improve the patient experience and outcomes at a societal scale, however, requires a gestalt shift—with a systematic understanding of AI in the context of healthcare—and so results in its widespread adoption.

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Ethics of split liver transplantation: should a large liver always be split if medically safe?

Journal of Medical Ethics

2022

Split liver transplantation (SLT) provides an opportunity to divide a donor liver, offering transplants to two small patients (one or both could be a child) rather than keeping it whole and providing a transplant to a single larger adult patient. In this article, we attempt to address the following question that is identified by the Organ Procurement and Transplant Network and United Network for Organ Sharing: ‘Should a large liver always be split if medically safe?’

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