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Avijit Sarkar Professor
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Biography Avijit Sarkar is
Professor of Operations Management and Business Analytics at the University
of Redlands, School of
Business. He received his Ph.D. (2004) and M.S. (2002) degrees in Industrial Engineering from University at Buffalo - The State University
of New York. His research
interests are in Examination
of Patterns of Adoption and Diffusion of Information and Communication
Technologies (ICTs) & Digital Divides, Business GIS, and Location
Analytics with Geospatial Big Data. His research has appeared in journals
such as Communications of the AIS,
Telecommunications
Policy, Journal
of Geographical Systems, IIE Transactions,
European
Journal of Operational Research, Socio-Economic
Planning Sciences, and Computers
and Operations Research. At Redlands, Avijit
teaches a variety of quantitative courses in business analytics, management science and operations management. He is a recipient of
the University of Redlands Faculty Review Committee Awards for Outstanding
Research (in 2010) & Outstanding Teaching (in 2009). Since July 2016, he is
Director of University of Redlands School of Business Graduate
Programs. He is also Director of the School of Business Center for Business GIS and
Spatial Analysis (GISAB) since 2012. Avijit is a member
of AIS, INFORMS,
and DSI. Presently, he is
Secretary of SIGGIS of the Assoc. for Information Systems (AIS).
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