Pavithra Harsha

Research Staff Member
Business Analytics and Mathematical Sciences
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
1101 Kitchawan Road, Room 34-225
Yorktown Heights, NY10598
phone:+1-914-945-1763
email: <pharsha> AT us.ibm.com

I am a Research Staff Member at the Business Analytics and Mathematical Sciences division of the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights. I am also a research affiliate at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

I graduated with a Ph.D in Operations Research from the Operations Research Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). My dissertation advisors were Prof. Cynthia Barnhart and Prof. David C. Parkes. I worked as a scientist in the Analytical Services division of Oracle Retail for about a year after I graduated from MIT and was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) at MIT for about two years after that where I was hosted by Prof. Munther Dahleh.

Research	Modeling, optimization, pricing, revenue management, supply chain, mechanism design and game theory. My primary interests are in modeling real-world problems and developing quantitative methods for decision making with applications to supply chain, retail, energy and transportation. Publications
My Thesis	Mitigating Airport Congestion: Market Mechanisms and Airline Response Models. Honorable mention in Aviation's Application Dissertation Prize (INFORMS 2009) Honorable mention in Transportation Science and Logistics Dissertation Prize (INFORMS 2009)
CV	CV in pdf
Other Interests	Gardening, collecting antiques, carnatic music, swimming
Other Links	My brother Prahladh's home page My husband Ajay's home page

Pavithra Harsha