Sameer Kumar

As the CenturyLink endowed chair in global communications and technology management and a professor of operations and supply chain management, Sameer Kumar, PhD, is focused on providing research leadership and a strong commitment to teaching and service.

Kumar has published more than 275 archival papers and seven books on health care systems, supply chain modeling and new product development. He is among the top 2 percent of the most-cited scientists, in Business and Management field, of the world's nearly 7 million working scientists in more than 200 fields of scientific research according to a study by Stanford scholars. Kumar is active on academic journal editorial boards, including as associate editor of the Journal of Manufacturing Systems, Decision Sciences Journal, and International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance and as book series advisor of Supply Chain Management, Operations and Systems Engineering for the publishing firm Taylor and Francis.