PhD Advisors: What's one practice you wish all your PhD students just knew to adopt when they joined your lab? Ex: Take notes in research meetings & email a follow-up of their "To Do's" for the next week Compiling a list of simple, professional habits for phd success!

I shared some thoughts on how AI will affect retail in this CNN Opinion piece put together by Bethany Cianciolo and Jessica Chia. Happy that I got to talk about Operations Research as a key component of AI, and somehow mentioned NBA and Spice Girls along the way! INFORMS @columbia

Super honored that my undergrad AI Ethics class was singled out in this article on new curriculum at USC in AI & Computing! computing.usc.edu/how-ai-is-chan…

Hey all! If you're like me and frustrated with the app for INFORMS meeting, I wrote some code that lets you export your calendar from the app to google calendar. github.com/vgupta1/Parsin…

Just finished giving a lecture… and discovered my fly was open. So, yeah. I’m crushing it.

Had my students try to jailbreak ChatGPT as part of a class exercise. Gen-Z is scarily good at this… they got instructions for making poison, hiding a body, building a bomb and more.

STEM undergrads in the SoCal area interested in learning more about OR/OM? Check out the USC Summer Scholars Program (tinyurl.com/USCSummerSchol…) for the chance to do hands on research with faculty and make your grad school applications shine!

Stepping down now, I have been the Data Editor for Management Science for four years and ~1000 replication packages (supported by Miloš Fišar, Christoph Huber and Ali Ozkes). So here is some look back at trends, mostly in pie charts. 1/17 x.com/bgreiner_tweet…

From a USC Colleague recently wrote: "I certainly did not realize my work as a professor would mean trying to also serve as a therapist in the absence of sufficient support from other sources." I feel that.

When you find out who doesn’t have Asian friends.