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Dr Kumar is an H. Timothy (Tim) Harkins Centennial Professor in the Department of Information, Risk and Operations Management and the Department of Finance at McCombs School of Business, the University of Texas at Austin. In addition, he serves as the Faculty Director at the Center for Analytics and Transformative Technologies. Before joining the faculty at UT Austin, Dr Kumar was an assistant professor at Purdue University and a graduate research assistant at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Scientific Computing and Computational Mathematics from Stanford University and his research focuses on decision making under uncertainty. Application areas of interest to him are quantitative finance, financial risk management, operations management, healthcare, and energy.