In Memoriam - Sushil K. Gupta
Dr. Sushil K. Gupta was a University Professor at Florida International University’s (FIU) College of Business. He has taught at the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), University of Delhi, in Delhi, India, and at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Dr. Gupta has also served FIU as vice provost for academic affairs and associate dean of the College of Engineering. He was also an honorary professor at Universidad Ricardo Palma in Lima, Peru. His research interests include production scheduling, mathematical modeling, project management, supply chain management, e-business, and disaster management. He has published in top-ranking professional journals, including Production and Operations Management, Management Science, IIE Transactions, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Research, Omega, Computers and Industrial Engineering, and Socio-Economic Planning Sciences.
Dr. Gupta is one of the founding members of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) and has played a key role in its initiation, development, and growth. He was POMS vice president for member activities (1994), POMS president (1996), and its executive director (1997-2025). He served as departmental editor for Production and Operations Management, the flagship journal of POMS.
Dr. Gupta was elected a POMS fellow in 2004. POMS also bestowed the honor on Gupta by awarding him the first POMS Distinguished Service Award in 2012. This award, starting in 2013, is named as the Sushil K. Gupta POMS Distinguished Service Award to honor Gupta for his dedicated services to POMS.
Gupta has been the recipient of many other prestigious awards that include: the “FIU Foundation Excellence in Research/Scholarship” award, the “Distinguished Scholarly Research Award” of the College of Business at FIU, a “Fulbright Fellowship” to do research work at the Sloan School of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Commonwealth Scholarship for graduate work at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada, and the Dr. V.K.R.V. Rao Gold Medal for his first place ranking in the MBA graduating class in Delhi, India.
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