Sridhar R. Tayur is an American business professor, entrepreneur, and management thinker.
He is university professor of operations management and Ford Distinguished Research Chair at the
Tepper School of Business
The Tepper School of Business is the business school of Carnegie Mellon University. It is located in the university's campus in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US.
The school offers degrees from the undergraduate through doctoral levels, in addition t ...
,
Carnegie Mellon University
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, and the founder of SmartOps Corporation
and OrganJet Corporation.
Tayur is known as an "academic capitalist," recognized for his contribution to
Inventory Theory Material theory (or more formally the mathematical theory of inventory and production) is the sub-specialty within operations research and operations management that is concerned with the design of production/ inventory systems to minimize costs: i ...
,
Supply Chain Management
In commerce, supply chain management (SCM) is the management of the flow of goods and services including all processes that transform raw materials into final products between businesses and locations. This can include the movement and stor ...
,
Lean Manufacturing
Lean manufacturing is a production method aimed primarily at reducing times within the production system as well as response times from suppliers and to customers. It is closely related to another concept called just-in-time manufacturing ( ...
, Operations Strategy,
Healthcare
Health care or healthcare is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health profe ...
Management, and
Quantum Computing
Quantum computing is a type of computation whose operations can harness the phenomena of quantum mechanics, such as superposition, interference, and entanglement. Devices that perform quantum computations are known as quantum computers. Though ...
. He describes his own work as "research, industrial implementation,
software entrepreneurship
Software entrepreneurship has a different set of developing strategies than other business start-ups. The development of software, a digital “soft” good, involves different business models, product strategy, people management, and development ...
, investing in start-ups and turnarounds, and creating a social enterprise" that lies "in the intersection of math, money, and morals." Tayur's work "has earned him a reputation as someone uniquely talented in identifying, and then solving, novel and timely problems confronting society," according to a 2014
''Productions and Operations Management'' article honoring him.
Education and career
Tayur attended
Hyderabad Public School
The Hyderabad Public School, Begumpet (HPS, Begumpet) is a privately funded public school in Hyderabad, Telangana State, India.
Children are schooled from the pre-primary stage to the 12th standard (ages 3 to 17). The school is affiliated with ...
, Begumpet, an elite school in the state of
Telangana
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. He earned his
B. Tech in
Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and mathematics principles with materials science, to design, analyze, manufacture, and ...
from
IIT Madras
Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) is a public technical university located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. As one of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), it is recognized as an Institute of National Importance and has be ...
in 1986
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Ph.D.
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in operations research and industrial engineering from
Cornell
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in 1990.
He joined
Carnegie Mellon
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*Carnegie Building (Troy, New York), on the campus of Rensselaer Polyt ...
in 1991 as an assistant professor in
The Graduate School of Industrial Administration (GSIA) (today known as Tepper School of Business), obtained tenure in 1996, and was promoted to full professor in 1998. In 2019, he was appointed to university professor, the highest designation a faculty member can receive at Carnegie Mellon. He holds Ford Distinguished Research Chair in Operations Management. Within Carnegie Mellon, he holds courtesy appointments in the
Heinz College
The Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, often called Heinz College, at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is a private graduate college that consists of one of the nation's top-ranked public policy schools ...
and
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has held a courtesy appointment as professor of
cardiology
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(2009–2011) at the Gerald McGinnis Center of
West Penn Allegheny Health System
Allegheny Health Network (AHN), based in Pittsburgh, is a non-profit, 14-hospital academic medical system with facilities located in Western Pennsylvania and one hospital in Western New York. AHN was formed in 2013 when Highmark Inc., a Pennsylv ...
.
Tayur has held visiting positions at
Cornell University
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,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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, and
Stanford University
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.
Tayur was president (2001–2002) of the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society (MSOM), one of the largest societies of the
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is an international society for practitioners in the fields of operations research (O.R.), management science, and analytics. It was established in 1995 with the merger of ...
(INFORMS). He has served on the editorial boards of
''Management Science'',
''Operations Research'', ''
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
''Manufacturing & Service Operations Management'' is a bi-monthly peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1999 that is published by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. It covers analytical research about operat ...
'', ''IIE Transactions'', ''Optimization and Engineering'', and
''Productions and Operations Management'', among others, and he is a department editor at
''Management Science'', for the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Department.
Tayur founded SmartOps (in 2000) and OrganJet (in 2011), and has consulted for various organizations, including
Caterpillar
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As with most common names, the application of the word is arbitrary, since the larvae of sawflies (suborder Sym ...
,
ConAgra Foods
Conagra Brands, Inc. (formerly ConAgra Foods) is an American consumer packaged goods holding company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Conagra makes and sells products under various brand names that are available in supermarkets, restaurants, ...
,
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,
Flight Options Kenneth C. "Kenn" Ricci is an American aviation entrepreneur, the principal of Directional Aviation Capital, which owns or invests in various aviation enterprises including Flight Options and Flexjet, which he also serves as chairman. He is an oper ...
,
General Electric
General Electric Company (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate founded in 1892, and incorporated in New York state and headquartered in Boston. The company operated in sectors including healthcare, aviation, power, renewable energ ...
,
GlaxoSmithKline
GSK plc, formerly GlaxoSmithKline plc, is a British multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company with global headquarters in London, England. Established in 2000 by a merger of Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham. GSK is the ten ...
,
Intel
Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. It is the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, and is one of the developers of the x86 seri ...
,
Kellogg's
The Kellogg Company, doing business as Kellogg's, is an American multinational food manufacturing company headquartered in Battle Creek, Michigan, United States. Kellogg's produces cereal and convenience foods, including crackers and toaste ...
,
and
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washing ...
.
Tayur has also served as a "consultant to the firm" for
McKinsey & Company
McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm founded in 1926 by University of Chicago professor James O. McKinsey, that offers professional services to corporations, governments, and other organizations. McKinsey is the oldest and ...
in the areas of
lean manufacturing
Lean manufacturing is a production method aimed primarily at reducing times within the production system as well as response times from suppliers and to customers. It is closely related to another concept called just-in-time manufacturing ( ...
and
supply chain management
In commerce, supply chain management (SCM) is the management of the flow of goods and services including all processes that transform raw materials into final products between businesses and locations. This can include the movement and stor ...
.
Academic work
Research
Tayur's work covers various
operations management fields, including
supply chain management
In commerce, supply chain management (SCM) is the management of the flow of goods and services including all processes that transform raw materials into final products between businesses and locations. This can include the movement and stor ...
,
lean manufacturing
Lean manufacturing is a production method aimed primarily at reducing times within the production system as well as response times from suppliers and to customers. It is closely related to another concept called just-in-time manufacturing ( ...
, and
healthcare
Health care or healthcare is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health profe ...
. His papers have been published in
''Operations Research'',
''Management Science'', ''
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
''Manufacturing & Service Operations Management'' is a bi-monthly peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1999 that is published by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. It covers analytical research about operat ...
'', ''
Mathematics of Operations Research
''Mathematics of Operations Research'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal established in February 1976. It focuses on areas of mathematics relevant to the field of operations research such as continuous optimization, discrete optimiz ...
'', ''
Mathematical Programming
Mathematical optimization (alternatively spelled ''optimisation'') or mathematical programming is the selection of a best element, with regard to some criterion, from some set of available alternatives. It is generally divided into two subfi ...
'', ''
Queueing Systems
''Queueing Systems'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering queueing theory. It is published by Springer Science+Business Media. The current editor-in-chief is Sergey Foss. According to the ''Journal Citation Reports'', the journal has a ...
'', ''IIE Transactions'', and ''
Production and Operations Management
''Production and Operations Management'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on all topics in product and process design, operations, and supply chain management.
''Production and Operations Management'' is published by Wiley-Bla ...
,'' among others. Notable collaborators include INFORMS Fellows such as
Dimitris Bertsimas
Dimitris Bertsimas is an American applied mathematician, and a professor in the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts.
In 2005, Bertsimas was elected a member of the National Ac ...
, Paul Glasserman, Jack Muckstadt,
Georgia Perakis, and Robin Roundy (his Ph.D. thesis advisor); faculty colleagues Alan Scheller-Wolf, R. Ravi (INFORMS Fellow), and
Ravindran Kannan
Ravindran Kannan ( ta, ரவீந்திரன் கண்ணன்; born 12 March 1953, Madras) is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research India, where he leads the algorithms research group. He is also the first adjunct faculty of C ...
; and Ph.D. students Srinagesh Gavirneni, Roman Kapuscinski,
Pınar Keskinocak (INFORMS Fellow), and Jay Swaminathan (INFORMS Fellow). He is recognized for his operations research work in developing novel algorithms for models in stochastic
inventory theory Material theory (or more formally the mathematical theory of inventory and production) is the sub-specialty within operations research and operations management that is concerned with the design of production/ inventory systems to minimize costs: i ...
(using Infinitesimal Perturbation Analysis).
Manufacturing, Retail and Supply Chain. Tayur developed Infinitesimal Perturbation Analysis (IPA) for stochastic inventory models, with a wide number of applications, including managing product variety using vanilla boxes, designing rapid-response supply chains, and omni-channel retailing.
His 2021
National Science Foundation
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Distinguished Lecture, jointly sponsored by the Directorates of Engineering (ENG), Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE), and Mathematics and Physical Sciences (MPS), summarized his work on responsive and resilient supply chains using novel quantum and classical algorithms. In addition, he has examined the "dark side" of
global supply chains, including
counterfeiting
To counterfeit means to imitate something authentic, with the intent to steal, destroy, or replace the original, for use in illegal transactions, or otherwise to deceive individuals into believing that the fake is of equal or greater value tha ...
and
child labour
Child labour refers to the exploitation of children through any form of work that deprives children of their childhood, interferes with their ability to attend regular school, and is mentally, physically, socially and morally harmful. Such e ...
.
Healthcare Analytics, Operations, and Policy. At
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History
Allegheny General Hospital, also known locally by the acr ...
, Tayur has conducted clinical trials that have established the clinical benefits of genotype guided therapeutic dosing of warfarin therapy.
Tayur's work with Dr.
Bennet Omalu
Bennet Ifeakandu Omalu (born September 30, 1968["About Bennet Omalu"](_blank)
, B ...
, whose discovery of
chronic traumatic encephalopathy
Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a neurodegenerative disease linked to repeated trauma to the head. The encephalopathy symptoms can include behavioral problems, mood problems, and problems with thinking. The disease often gets worse o ...
(CTE) was featured in the movie
''Concussion'', applies OM methods to improve Medical Examiner Offices. In the area of
long-term care
Long-term care (LTC) is a variety of services which help meet both the medical and non-medical needs of people with a chronic illness or disability who cannot care for themselves for long periods. Long-term care is focused on individualized and ...
, Tayur has examined ways to improve the consistency of staffing and proposed an "
on-call
On-call scheduling, sometimes referred to as on-call shifts, are processes used in business where employee work schedules are intentionally unpredictable. Employees who work on-call are expected to be available at any time during their shift, usu ...
pool" approach.
To address the fundamental problem of scarcity of supply of organs, Tayur has collaborated with the New Jersey Sharing Network and Nevada Donor Network, among other
organ procurement organization In the United States, an organ procurement organization (OPO) is a non-profit organization that is responsible for the evaluation and procurement of deceased-donor organs for organ transplantation. There are 57 such organizations in the United Sta ...
s (OPOs), to investigate
behavioral
Behavior (American English) or behaviour (British English) is the range of actions and mannerisms made by individuals, organisms, systems or artificial entities in some environment. These systems can include other systems or organisms as well ...
approaches that will increase the consent rate from legal
next of kin
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(NOK) of deceased individuals through video intervention. This work attracted the attention of the White House
Office of Science and Technology Policy
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and was featured at the 24th Association for Multicultural Affairs in Transplantation Annual Meeting in 2016. He has studied various aspects of split liver transplantation, including ethics, learning, and decisions support to determine optimal splitting policy, in collaboration with
University of California, San Francisco
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transplant surgeons. His research on geographic disparity, gender inequity and video nudge were discussed at the
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
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Committee on "A Fairer and More Equitable, Cost-Effective, and Transparent System of Donor Organ Procurement, Allocation, and Distribution."
Tayur supports finding other innovative methods to increase organ donation and supports the need for clarification to be able to conduct further researc
Tayur has engaged other researchers, transplant surgeons, and policy bodies, as well as students, by serving on the organizing committee of the 2016 Johns Hopkins Symposium on Healthcare Operations, with a theme of "When
Organ transplantation, Organ Transplantation meets
Operations Research
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," and by speaking on "Effective and Innovative Solutions to Increase
Organ Donation
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Donation may be for re ...
" at the
Harvard Effective Altruist Chapter.
Tayur has studied
personalized treatment for
opioid use disorder
Opioid use disorder (OUD) is a substance use disorder characterized by cravings for opioids, continued use despite physical and/or psychological deterioration, increased tolerance with use, and withdrawal symptoms after discontinuing opioids. Op ...
, specifically, the efficacy of using
wearables
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Wearables may be for general ...
to prevent
relapse
In internal medicine, relapse or recidivism is a recurrence of a past (typically medical) condition. For example, multiple sclerosis and malaria often exhibit peaks of activity and sometimes very long periods of dormancy, followed by relapse or r ...
.
In collaboration with the
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
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, Tayur developed machine learning algorithms to predict hospital re-admissions due to sickle-cell disease.
In addition to his applied work, Tayur has adopted a strategic queueing approach to investigate (1) physicians' diagnostic test-ordering behavior in outpatient settings and (2) the effect of multi-listing—powered by affordable jet services (OrganJet)—on U.S. organ transplantation candidates' life expectancy and organ wastage.
Tayur has also analyzed
combinatorial models (using quantum- and quantum-inspired algorithms) and conducted
topological data analysis
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(using
algebraic topology
Algebraic topology is a branch of mathematics that uses tools from abstract algebra to study topological spaces. The basic goal is to find algebraic invariant (mathematics), invariants that classification theorem, classify topological spaces up t ...
) to study
cancer genomics, using data on
acute myeloid leukemia
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a cancer of the myeloid line of blood cells, characterized by the rapid growth of abnormal cells that build up in the bone marrow and blood and interfere with normal blood cell production. Symptoms may includ ...
and
Glioblastoma Multiforme
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from
The Cancer Genome Atlas
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.
Tayur has explored improved data-driven methods towards making Liquid Biopsy practical.
New Business Models. Tayur's research has analyzed new business models such as scheduling of
fractional jets
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Fraction may also refer to:
* Fraction (chemistry), a quantity of a substance collected by fractionation
* Fraction (floating point number), an (ambiguous) term sometimes used to specify a part ...
, online rental models,
online to offline (O2O) platforms, dynamic scheduling of advertisements in video games,
and an entrepreneurial approach to the widespread adoption of multiple listing for organ transplantation.
Books
Tayur's co-edited volume, ''Quantitative Models for Supply Chain Management'' (
Springer
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** Springer Nature, a multinationa ...
,1999), is among the most popular reference books on supply chain modeling. Another, ''Handbook of Healthcare Analytics: Theoretical Minimum for Conducting 21st Century Research on Healthcare Operations'' (
John Wiley & Sons
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, 2018), covers a wide scope of contemporary topics and provides timely access to modern analytical tools; the handbook is an "important volume" that "represents some of the brightest minds in analytics research, as well as physicians and senior healthcare executives."
Teaching
Tayur has won various undergraduate and MBA teaching awards, including the George Leland Bach Excellence in Teaching Award. One of Tayur's teaching cases, entitled “Managing Operations in the Time-Shared Jet Business," won First Prize for the INFORMS Teaching Case Award in 2000, and another, "Patient Experience Improvement at UPMC Eye Center," won Second Prize for the same award in 2012. In his chapter on "Operations Management MBA Teaching in 21st Century Business Schools," Tayur identifies five shared shortcomings between the “
Harvard
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approach” (case study) and “
Carnegie approach” (mathematical models), suggesting a way to build on the best of both. He also notes entrepreneurship (including social enterprises) and the increased number of female MBAs as two important topics that need to be addressed more centrally in MBA education, with a goal of achieving the "higher aims" of management education beyond creating just another generation of "hired hands
In collaboration with USRA/NASA and Amazon, and with NSF support, he developed a new course focused on Quantum Integer Programming (QuIP) in 2020, and expanded it to include Quantum Machine Learning (QuML) in 2021.
Tayur has also taught in executive education programs for various companies, including
McKinsey & Company
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,
Cisco Systems
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, and
Schibsted
Schibsted Media Group is an international media group. The company has its headquarters in Oslo, Norway, and is listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. The CEO is Kristin Skogen Lund.
In 2019, Schibsted spun off the majority of their online marketplac ...
.
Recognitions
Tayur was named one of the four “Masters of Supply-Chain Efficiency” by
Fortune Magazine
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,
and a “Most Popular Professor” by
BusinessWeek
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. He has been ranked as one of the stellar operations management researchers.
In 2012, Tayur was elected as a fellow of INFORMS for his lifetime achievements in “research on inventories and supply chain management, and developing new methodologies, implementing software in manufacturing, logistics and supply chains, and creating a market for enterprise
inventory optimization
Inventory optimization is a method of balancing capital investment constraints or objectives and service-level goals over a large assortment of stock-keeping units (SKUs) while taking demand and supply volatility into account.
Inventory managem ...
software.”
[The importance of inventory control to economic productivity has been widely recognized, including by the Nobel-winning economist ]Paul Krugman
Paul Robin Krugman ( ; born February 28, 1953) is an American economist, who is Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and a columnist for ''The New York Times''. In 2008, Krugman was th ...
, who states that, "The big productivity gains of the period from 1995 to 2005 came largely in things like inventory control" (See
The Big Meh
, by Paul Krugman
Paul Robin Krugman ( ; born February 28, 1953) is an American economist, who is Distinguished Professor of Economics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and a columnist for ''The New York Times''. In 2008, Krugman was th ...
).
In 2017, Tayur was elected as a Distinguished Fellow of MSOM. In the same year, he was elected as a Member of the
National Academy of Engineering
The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) is an American nonprofit, non-governmental organization. The National Academy of Engineering is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy ...
for "developing and commercializing innovative methods to optimize supply chain systems."
Awards
In the field of
Healthcare
Health care or healthcare is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health profe ...
Management, Tayur's paper "Imaging Room and Beyond: The Underlying Economics Behind Physicians’ Test-Ordering Behavior in Outpatient Services" won first place in the 2012 Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) College of Healthcare Operations Management's Best Paper Competition. In 2015, he won the Pierskalla Award for Best Paper in Healthcare from
INFORMS
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is an international society for practitioners in the fields of operations research (O.R.), management science, and analytics. It was established in 1995 with the merger of ...
, for his paper, "OrganJet: Overcoming geographical disparities in access to deceased donor kidneys in the United States;" in 2019. The same paper was recognized as a finalist for the inaugural
INFORMS
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is an international society for practitioners in the fields of operations research (O.R.), management science, and analytics. It was established in 1995 with the merger of ...
MSOM Society's Award for Responsible Research in Operations Management. In 2021, his working paper titled "Toward a Liquid Biopsy: Greedy Approximation Algorithms for Active Sequential Hypothesis Testing" won the Pierskalla Award for Best Paper in Healthcare. In 2022, he received the ''
Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
''Manufacturing & Service Operations Management'' is a bi-monthly peer-reviewed academic journal established in 1999 that is published by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. It covers analytical research about operat ...
'' journal's Best Published Paper Award for his work on combating child labor in global supply chains.
His work with
John Deere
Deere & Company, doing business as John Deere (), is an American corporation that manufactures agricultural machinery, heavy equipment, forestry machinery, diesel engines, drivetrains (axles, transmissions, gearboxes) used in heavy equipment, ...
—which reduced over $1B in inventory in just four years—was a finalist for the
Edelman Prize. His PhD students have won a number of awards, including th
George Nicholson Prize in 1996and th
George B. Dantzig Dissertation Awardin 2011.
Tayur's work on
integer programming
An integer programming problem is a mathematical optimization or Constraint satisfaction problem, feasibility program in which some or all of the variables are restricted to be integers. In many settings the term refers to integer linear programmin ...
using
Gröbner basis
In mathematics, and more specifically in computer algebra, computational algebraic geometry, and computational commutative algebra, a Gröbner basis is a particular kind of generating set of an ideal in a polynomial ring over a field . A Gröbn ...
was a finalist for the
Frederick W. Lanchester Prize
The Frederick W. Lanchester Prize is an Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences prize (U.S. $5,000 cash prize and medallion) given for the best contribution to operations research and the management sciences published in Engli ...
.
In 2018, Tayur was chosen by
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) is a public technical university located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. As one of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), it is recognized as an Institute of National Importance and has be ...
as a recipient of the 2018 Distinguished Alumni Awards (DAA).
“Academic Capitalist”
As a serial entrepreneur and an active promoter of monetizing
operations research
Operations research ( en-GB, operational research) (U.S. Air Force Specialty Code: Operations Analysis), often shortened to the initialism OR, is a discipline that deals with the development and application of analytical methods to improve deci ...
,
Tayur coined the term “academic capitalist.”
["Academic Capitalist" is similar to "Scientific Entrepreneur" (See]
The Scientific Life; A moral history of a late modern vocation
, by Steven Shapin
Steven Shapin (born 1943) is an American historian and sociologist of science. He is the Franklin L. Ford Research Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. He is considered one of the earliest scholars on the sociology of scienti ...
), and can be considered as a modern version of "craftsman-scholar" (See
The Lever of Riches; Technological Creativity and Economic Progress
, by Joel Mokyr
Joel Mokyr (born 26 July 1946) is a Netherlands-born American-Israeli economic historian. He is a professor of economics and history at Northwestern University, where he has taught since 1974; in 1994 he was named the Robert H. Strotz Professor o ...
). Tayur is a charter member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (
TiE
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),
and has served as a mentor for TiE ScaleUp.
SmartOps
In 2000, Tayur founded the software company SmartOps Corporation, after winning the first prize in the EnterPrize Case Competition that year, and served as its CEO until 2012. The company raised Series A funding within 45 days, became profitable in 2003, and has experienced revenue growth every year since its inception.
Through SmartOps, Tayur also coined the phrase "fix the mix" to refer to the approach of adjusting inventory levels for various items to meet target service levels with lower overall inventory investment. Several SmartOps customers, including
Cabot Corporation
Cabot Corporation is an American specialty chemicals and performance materials company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. The company operates in over 20 countries with 36 manufacturing plants, eight research and development facilities and ...
,
Celestica
Celestica Inc. is a Canadian multinational electronics manufacturing services (EMS) company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.
History
Leadership
Celestica's President and CEO is Rob Mionis. Mionis took over leadership on 1 August 2015 a ...
,
ConAgra
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,
Dow Chemical Company
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Dow manufactures plastic ...
,
Johnson & Johnson
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,
Kohler Company
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,
Lubrizol
The Lubrizol Corporation is an American provider of specialty chemicals for the transportation, industrial and consumer markets. These products include additives for engine oils and other transportation-related fluids, additives for industrial l ...
,
LSI Corporation
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,
Medtronic
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,
PPG Industries
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,
Wyeth
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, have spoken about their successes with Enterprise Inventory Optimization (EIO).
SmartOps was in a revenue sharing contract agreement with
SAP AG
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Sap is distinct from latex, resin, or cell sap; it is a sepa ...
, until February 2013, when SAP AG announced that it would acquire SmartOps to develop a real-time supply chain software that allows its customers to "run their businesses in real time—to analyze, predict, react and adjust instantly."
Through this acquisition, SAP was able to offer an integrated
inventory management software
Inventory management software is a software system for tracking inventory levels, orders, sales and deliveries. It can also be used in the manufacturing industry to create a work order, bill of materials and other production-related documents. Co ...
, allowing its clients to "manage the increased supply chain risk due to economic uncertainty, escalating customer expectations, demand volatility, and supply variability they face."
Tayur has been recognized for his entrepreneurship of SmartOps Corporation by the
Carnegie Science Center
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Overview
The Carnegie Science Center is the most visited mu ...
Award for Innovation in Information Technology, and has been the subject of
University of Virginia Darden School of Business
The Darden School of Business is the graduate business school of the University of Virginia, a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. The Darden School offers MBA, PhD, and Executive Education programs. The school was founded ...
's MBA Teaching case “SmartOps Corporation: Forging Smart Alliances?”
OrganJet and GuardianWings
In 2011, Tayur founded the
social enterprise
A social enterprise is an organization that applies commercial strategies to maximize improvements in financial, social and environmental well-being. This may include maximizing social impact alongside profits for co-owners.
Social enterprises ca ...
OrganJet Corporation, which facilities multiple listings and provides on-demand private jet transportation for patients to receive
organ transplantation
Organ transplantation is a medical procedure in which an organ (anatomy), organ is removed from one body and placed in the body of a recipient, to replace a damaged or missing organ. The donor and recipient may be at the same location, or organ ...
in a wider geographic range.
Since the founding of OrganJet, Tayur's "entrepreneurial approach to reform
heorgan waiting list" has caught the attention of Nobel Laureate
Alvin E. Roth
Alvin Eliot Roth (born December 18, 1951) is an American academic. He is the Craig and Susan McCaw professor of economics at Stanford University and the George Gund (philanthropist), Gund professor of economics and business administration emeritu ...
, among other preeminent economists.
In addition, OrganJet has been covered by the AOL/MAKERS initiative and by the media in regions suffering from geographic disparity in waiting times for organ transplants, such as Boston, Denver,
and Wisconsin.
In July 2012, with the founding of GuardianWings, Tayur became the first
social entrepreneur
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to start a “contract hybrid,” in which a for-profit entity (OrganJet) is symbiotically integrated with a not-for-profit subsidiary (GuardianWings) sharing a common social mission of providing inclusive access to
organ transplantation
Organ transplantation is a medical procedure in which an organ (anatomy), organ is removed from one body and placed in the body of a recipient, to replace a damaged or missing organ. The donor and recipient may be at the same location, or organ ...
.
[The notion of “contract hybrids,” as a new legal entity, was first proposed b]
Bromberger (2011)
as a method to obtain the best of “for-profit” and “not-for-profit” entities, and further explored b
Battilana et al. (2012)
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case titled "OrganJet and GuardianWings" (by Julie Battilana
Julie Battilana is a scholar, educator, and advisor in the areas of social innovation and social change at Harvard University.
She is the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the Alan L. Gleitsman P ...
and James Weber), covering the decision process behind the organizational structure of OrganJet and GuardianWings, has been taught at Harvard Business School
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. The case has also been used by the University of Michigan
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's Ross School of Business
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, among other business schools, in its course "The Corporation in Society," where Tayur was interviewed by the instructor Jim Walsh. Students were asked to write responses to the question "If you were Sridhar Tayur, how do you think about your aspirations to establish OrganJet and GuardianWings, change the current transplant system in America, honor your commitments to Carnegie-Mellon University, and live a full life?" In an interview with The Guardian
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, Tayur said that the hybrid model was more efficient than a traditional pure for-profit or not-for-profit: "It would have been much easier for me to have said it's a not-for-profit or a for-profit and satisfy the skeptics. But the primary goal of my company is to help as many people as possible get transplants quicker."
On August 7, 2013, it was announced that Irena Bucci, a resident of the Washington D.C. area, successfully received a kidney transplant in Pittsburgh through the service provided by OrganJet. In June 2014, OrganJet sponsored a “Transplants” campaign with Mediaplanet and USA Today
''USA Today'' (stylized in all uppercase) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company. Founded by Al Neuharth on September 15, 1982, the newspaper operates from Gannett's corporate headquarters in Tysons, Virgini ...
aiming to increase the public's awareness of the importance of organ donation. On August 20, 2013, OrganJet released a free self-service App to help chronic kidney disease
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patients find a low wait kidney transplant center in the US.
A 2014 piece in ''The Atlantic
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It was founded in 1857 in Boston, ...
,'' "A Private Jet Is Waiting to Take You to Your Kidney Transplant" detailed Tayur's motivation behind founding OrganJet and the company's latest developments. In discussing geographic inequality in organ transplantation, a 2014 ''The New England Journal of Medicine
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His ...
'' article cited OrganJet as an example of mobilizing the recipients (instead of mobilizing the organs) that would face less of the "political resistance that has stood in the way of broader organ sharing to date." The ''American Journal of Transplantation
The ''American Journal of Transplantation'' is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons and the American Society of Transplantation. It covers research on all a ...
'', in its February 2015 issue of "The AJT Report," mentioned Tayur and his work through OrganJet as one of "grassroots groups and organizations formed to improve the quality of life for transplant candidates, recipients, their families, and the families of organ and tissue donors." Tayur and OrganJet have also been profiled in ''The Craft of Creativity'','' Ars Technica
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'', ''Forbes
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'', and ''Vice News
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''.
OrganJet has been featured in research seminars in leading universities, including Cornell University
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, Harvard University
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, MIT
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, Stanford University
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, and University of Chicago
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. OrganJet has also been featured at Harvard Kennedy School
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's New World Social Enterprise Fellows Program, where Tayur showcased OrganJet as an operational example of John Rawls
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's difference principle
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, as well as at the Leadership for System Change: Delivering Social Impact at Scale Program for Schwab Fellows since 2017.
Tayur pioneered the use of nudge
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* "Nudge Nudge", a sketch from the third ''Monty Py ...
videos to increase tissue and organ donations by increasing consent from next of kin
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s, which are now adopted by a number of organ procurement organization In the United States, an organ procurement organization (OPO) is a non-profit organization that is responsible for the evaluation and procurement of deceased-donor organs for organ transplantation. There are 57 such organizations in the United Sta ...
s. He has provided remarks to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
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Committee for A Fairer and More Equitable, Cost-Effective and Transparent System of Organ Procurement, Allocation, and Distribution (covering OrganJet, exception points to reduce gender disparity in liver allocation, and the use of nudge
Nudge or Nudging may refer to:
Arts
* Nudge (band), an American electronic rock band
* Nudge, a List of characters in Maximum Ride#Nudge, character from the Maximum Ride series by James Patterson
* "Nudge Nudge", a sketch from the third ''Monty Py ...
videos to increase organ and tissue supply), and comments on fair liver allocation to reduce gender disparity.
Limited partner in PE and VC firms
Tayur was a member of the advisory board and a limited partner of CCG Inc. (2001–2010), a private equity firm devoted to applying lean manufacturing techniques at small manufacturing firms and creating new jobs. He is a limited partner and member of the advisory board of NeoTribe Ventures. He is a limited partner in TiePittsburgh Angels, that makes direct investments as well is a limited partner in 412 Venture Fund.
Angel Investor
He is (or has been) an investor in and/or member of the advisory boards of Vendia, Onera (later acquired by ToolsGroup), Fathomd, and VocaliD (later acquired by Veritone
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). He was previously an advisor to Zenrez and MitraBiotech. In addition, he serves on the board of directors of Transplant Interface. He was a member of the board of directors of Orchestro, a software-as-a-service
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SaaS is cons ...
based analytics platform that was later acquired by E2open
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.
“Management mechanics”
In line with Herbert A. Simon
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's reflection that “executive centrifuges” are needed for a science of “judgment mechanics,” Tayur proposed the term "management mechanics," a methodical way to conduct quantitative-model-based "management consulting
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" that also allows for systematic implementation of sustaintable organizational change using enterprise information technology. A wide range of "what if
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* ''What If...'' (2012 film), a Greek film
* ''What If'' (2013 film) or ''The F Word'', a Canadian-Irish film
Telev ...
" analysis allows senior executives to tackle practical problems in operations management (PPOMs) in the spirit of Peter Drucker
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's views on Management Science.
PPOMs can lie "inside the factory," "outside the factory," or in the "interfaces between the inside and the outside of the factory." PPOMs in product companies (across a variety of industries) include designing rapid response supply chains, optimizing product portfolios, implementing a postponement strategy, planning production with significant changeover times and costs, reducing net landed cost in procurement, optimizing working capital needs to meet service levels, operating a global supply chain using S&OP process, quoting accurate lead times, and designing a seasonal logistics strategy through a gain sharing contract. Management Mechanics helps executives make sound judgements on strategic decisions that may span multiple organizational silos in their firm or even cross firm boundaries.
In 1999, Tayur coined the term "planned spontaneity" to describe firms' supply-side strategy to create and respond to consumer demands spontaneously. The term has now been used to describe a new wave of technology enterprises aiming to satisfy last-minute consumer demands.
Deep computing
Through SmartOps, Tayur has also explored massively parallel versions of enterprise inventory optimization (EIO) algorithms on IBM's Blue Gene
Blue Gene is an IBM project aimed at designing supercomputers that can reach operating speeds in the petaFLOPS (PFLOPS) range, with low power consumption.
The project created three generations of supercomputers, Blue Gene/L, Blue Gene/P, ...
. In 2005, as Blue Gene's first supply chain application, the IBM-SmartOps pilot solved industrial scale problems with more than a million variables in 0.04 seconds on a "half rack" system with 512 processors.
Quantum computing
With the objective of "making quantum computing
Quantum computing is a type of computation whose operations can harness the phenomena of quantum mechanics, such as superposition, interference, and entanglement. Devices that perform quantum computations are known as quantum computers. Though ...
as a service a reality," Tayur created th
Quantum Computing Group
at Carnegie Mellon in 2017 to study optimization problems―motivated by operations research and operations management applications―by bringing ideas and methods from algebraic geometry
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, geometry of numbers Geometry of numbers is the part of number theory which uses geometry for the study of algebraic numbers. Typically, a ring of algebraic integers is viewed as a lattice in \mathbb R^n, and the study of these lattices provides fundamental information ...
and algebraic topology
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to quantum computing
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. The research program has several thrusts:
# Use computational algebraic geometry and Knuth–Bendix completion algorithm The Knuth–Bendix completion algorithm (named after Donald Knuth and Peter Bendix) is a semi-decision algorithm for transforming a set of equations (over terms) into a confluent term rewriting system. When the algorithm succeeds, it effectively ...
to compile on quantum computers (both AQC and NISQ).
# Develop novel hybrid quantum-classical algorithms and quantum-inspired classical Graver Augmented Multi-seed Algorithm (GAMA) for non-linear integer optimization with non-convex objective functions. The group has conducted numerical testing on D-Wave of their new hybrid quantum-classical algorithm to compute Graver basis In applied mathematics, Graver bases enable iterative solutions of linear and various nonlinear integer programming problems in polynomial time. They were introduced by Jack E. Graver.Jack E. Graver: On the foundations of linear and linear integer ...
, which is known to be useful in many applications of non-linear integer optimization and game theory
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and use it for optimization. The group has applied the above algorithms to Cancer Genomics to study acute myeloid leukemia
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.
# The group is also the first to introduce Morse theory
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, Cerf theory
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:f\colon M \to \R
on a smooth manifold M, their generic singularities and the topology of the ...
(from algebraic topology), and Gauss–Bonnet theorem
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In the simplest application, the case of a ...
(from differential geometry) to understand adiabatic quantum computation
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Description
First, a (potentially complicated) Hamiltonian (quantum mechanic ...
at a fundamental level by studying the deformation of Hamiltonian surface and evolution of (and around) anti-crossings.
# In collaboration with NASA
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NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...
's Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab
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(QuAIL), the group has developed mathematical programming methods for minor-embedding in quantum annealers such as D-Wave.
In 2020, with support from National Science Foundation
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and in partnership with Universities Space Research Association
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Institutional membership in the assoc ...
and Amazon
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* Amazon rainforest, a rainforest covering most of the Amazon basin
* Amazon River, in South America
* Amazon (company), an American multinational technology c ...
, he co-developed and co-taught a course on Quantum Integer Programming, which is freely available to students and researchers around the globe. In 2021, this course was expanded to include Quantum Machine Learning.
Tayur's work on quantum computing has been covered by Ars Technica
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and ''Notices of the American Mathematical Society
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''. In 2020, he was inducted into Pittsburgh Quantum Institute
The Pittsburgh Quantum Institute (PQI) is a multidisciplinary research institute that focuses on quantum sciences and engineering in the Pittsburgh region. It is a research-intensive cluster.
The Pittsburgh Quantum Institute (PQI) was founded i ...
, as the first business school professor to join as a member. In a 2020 interview with Fortune
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* Luck
* Wealth
* Fortune, a prediction made in fortune-telling
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, he endorsed the White House
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's proposed budget that doubled the Federal spending for artificial intelligence
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and quantum computing, citing the governments' crucial role in fueling basic research and that major tech firms such as Alphabet
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and Facebook
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“are doing research in A.I. that benefits their business models.” He is an executive committee member of Pittsburgh Quantum Institute
The Pittsburgh Quantum Institute (PQI) is a multidisciplinary research institute that focuses on quantum sciences and engineering in the Pittsburgh region. It is a research-intensive cluster.
The Pittsburgh Quantum Institute (PQI) was founded i ...
.
Unconventional computing
Tayur's TEDxCMU2020 talk discusses "Magical Unconventional Computing beyond Quantum." He is currently developing and supporting research on room-temperature Ising machines with collaborators from IIT Madras
Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) is a public technical university located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. As one of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), it is recognized as an Institute of National Importance and has be ...
and National University of Singapore
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.
Quantum communications
Quantum queue-channels arise naturally in the context of buffering in quantum network
Quantum networks form an important element of quantum computing and quantum communication systems. Quantum networks facilitate the transmission of information in the form of quantum bits, also called qubits, between physically separated quantum p ...
s. Collaborating with researchers at IIT-Madras, Tayur has studied Unital Qubit (that includes the important case of symmetric Generalized Amplitude Damping) channels and shown that the maximum classical capacity can be achieved without entanglement.
He has been a promoter of public-private collaboration in quantum communication and computing, especially in regard with supply chains (and infrastructure) for quantum technologies.
Personal life
Tayur was born in Madras
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(now Chennai
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) in India to a Kannada
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-speaking family. His father was in the Indian Administrative Service
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. Tayur is married to Gunjan Kedia, and they have two sons. Tayur and Kedia supported Barack Obama
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in the 2008 Presidential election.
Philanthropy
Education. In April 2014, Carnegie Mellon University received a $1 million gift from Tayur and his wife Gunjan Kedia, a Tepper alumna (MSIA ’94). This gift was to help construct the Tepper Quadrangle that will house the new Tepper School of Business building. In February 2016, Tayur launched a new Institute Chair at IIT Madras
Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) is a public technical university located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. As one of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), it is recognized as an Institute of National Importance and has be ...
.
Film. Tayur's charitable foundation, RAGS Family Foundation, was created to support various documentaries. The film ''Journey to Normal'', featured by The Shriver Report
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, profiles several female veterans, including Christine Mau, who became the first woman to fly an F-35 Fighter Jet. The foundation also supports Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival
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, one of the largest Asian film festivals in the U.S., including providing the funding for the annual People's Choice Award. He is also a donor to Tull Family Theater in Sewickley, Pennsylvania
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.
He is an Executive Producer of ''Vax Wars'' (2021). Through SmartOps in 2010 and the RAGS Foundation in 2013, Tayur supported ''WBCN and The American Revolution'', a feature-length documentary film. In 2018, he became an Executive Producer of the film. In 2019, it won Best Documentary Feature at DC Independent Film Festival
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, was the Centerpiece Documentary at the Boston Independent Film Festival and an Official Selection at Conquest Film Festival and Woods Hole Film Festival
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. The film is distributed through PBS
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, viewable on more than 100 channels nationwide in November 2021.
Tayur has also been a member of the Leadership Donor Group at the Brattle Film Foundation and a member of the advisory board of TrueSpark, a non-profit seeking to engage at-risk middle school youth using motion pictures.
In an interview with ''Variety'' about the lack of diversity in Disney
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's C-suite
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, Tayur advocated for a systematic approach: “Even if there are many talented or capable people, it takes time to sift through and make sure there is some kind of a process, and this is not done haphazardly... Frankly, it's not enough to put a few people in the C-suite. You don't want to give the impression that it's window dressing.”
Public Television. Tayur served on the Board of Overseers and was a Ralph Lowell Society member of WGBH WGBH may refer to:
* WGBH Educational Foundation, based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States
** WGBH (FM), a public radio station at Boston, Massachusetts on 89.7 MHz owned by the WGBH Educational Foundation
** WGBH-TV
WGBH-TV (channel 2), ...
, in which capacity he helped bring organ donation topics to wide public awareness through the PBS
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- OZY collaboration late-night TV show, Point Taken. ''WBCN and The American Revolution'' premiered on WGBH-TV
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and PBS
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stations in the Fall of 2021 and is now available for streaming on Amazon Prime
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.
Medical Research and Healthcare. Since 2009, Tayur has funded neuroscience research in Dr. Beverly Davidson's laboratory at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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(previously at University of Iowa
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) that utilizes RNA interference
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to find therapy for rare genetic disorders like SCA2. He has also supported Massachusetts General Hospital
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's organ transplantation
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research through sponsoring its "2015 Transplant Golf Classic" event. He serves on the board of directors of Heritage Valley Health System.
Policy Advice. At the National Academies
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, Tayur has provided oversight to publication in the area of supply chain resiliency and served as an external reviewer on Policy Options for Sustainable and Resilient Supply Chains. He has also consulted for a White House
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special committee dealing with the 2022 United States infant formula shortage
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.
Other. Tayur has served as a policy advisor to the Polaris Project
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to counter human trafficking
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. Tayur and his wife have also been long-time donors to Plan International
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, Children International
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, Childreach International
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, CARE
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* CARE (New Zealand), Citizens Association for Racial Equality, a former New Zealand organisation
* CARE (relief agency), "Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere", an international aid and ...
, Smile Train
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, and American Red Cross
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, and have supported microfinance through Kiva
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for several years. They are also donors to Innocence Project
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, RIP Medical Debt
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, and Feeding America
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. Through SmartOps, Tayur sponsored the 12th Social Enterprise
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Conference at Harvard Business School
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, the MIT Sloan
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Annual Operations Simulation
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Competition in 2010 and 2011, and the Els for Autism 2011 Golf Challenge.
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External links
Tayur's Official Homepage (Carnegie Mellon University)
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Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Fellows of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
American chief executives
American business theorists
American consulting businesspeople
American people of Indian descent
Carnegie Mellon University faculty
Cornell University College of Engineering alumni
Businesspeople from Pittsburgh
American technology company founders
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)