Profile

Shivam Gupta

Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management and Analytics

Supply Chain Management and Analytics

HLH 511 W
P.O. Box 884114
Lincoln, NE 68588-4114
(402) 472-4155
sgupta7@unl.edu

Education

Ph.D. in Management Science, The University of Texas at Dallas, 2011-2016

M. Tech. in Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 2009-2011

B. Tech. in Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 2003-2007

Areas of Expertise

Procurement Management
Agricultural Operations Management

Research Interests

sourcing management
agricultural operations
innovation and technology management

Appointments

Assistant Professor, since 2018

Dr. Gupta’s research interests lie in designing algorithms/mechanisms to align incentives between multiple parties (e.g., manufacturer and supplier, firm and vendor, firm and employees). He is also interested in studying public policies and their operational implications. A common theme in his research is to generate insights or practical solutions that can have economic and social impact in the real-world.

Shivam Gupta, Saurabh Bansal, Milind Dawande, Ganesh Janakiraman. Trust-and-Evaluate: A Dynamic Non-Monetary Mechanism for Internal Capital Allocation.

Shivam Gupta, Anupam Agrawal, Jennifer K. Ryan. Agile Contracting: Managing Incentives under Uncertain Needs. Production and Operations Management

Shivam Gupta, Wei Chen, Milind Dawande, Ganesh Janakiraman. Three Years, Two Papers, One Course Off: Optimal Non-Monetary Reward Policies. Management Science.

Shivam Gupta, Saurabh Bansal. 2022. Optimal Market Integration Decisions by Policy Makers: Modeling and Analysis of Agriculture Market Data. Operations Research 70(1) 352-362.

Shivam Gupta, Shouqiang Wang, Milind Dawande, Ganesh Janakiraman. 2021. Procurement with Cost and Non-Cost Attributes: Cost-Sharing Mechanisms. Operations Research 69(5) 1349–1367.

Shivam Gupta, Milind Dawande, Ganesh Janakiraman, Ashutosh Sarkar. 2017. Distressed Selling by Farmers: Model, Analysis, and Use in Policy-Making. Production and Operations Management 26(10) 1803-1818
- First Place in the INFORMS Public Sector OR Best Paper Competition 2015.
- Finalist in the POMS SCM Student Paper Competition 2016.

Shivam Gupta. 2016. On a Modification of the VCG Mechanism and Its Optimality. Operations Research Letters 44(3) 415-418.

Shivam Gupta, Wei Chen, Milind Dawande, Ganesh Janakiraman. 2015. Optimal Descending Mechanisms for Constrained Procurement. Production and Operations Management 24(12) 1955-1965.

Kalyanmoy Deb, Shivam Gupta, Joydeep Dutta, Bhoomija Ranjan. 2013. Solving Dual Problems Using a Coevolutionary Optimization Algorithm. Journal of Global Optimization 57(3) 891-933.

Kalyanmoy Deb, Shivam Gupta. 2011. Understanding Knee-points in Bi-criteria Problems and Their Implications as Preferred Solution Principles. Engineering Optimization 43(11) 1175-1204.

SCMA 350: Business Analytics/Information Analysis
SCMA 855: Prescriptive Analytics