Radhika Kulkarni

Radhika Vidyadhar Kulkarni (born 1956)[1] is a retired Indian and American operations researcher,[2] and the 2022 president of INFORMS.[3]

The Bechhofer–Kulkarni selection procedure or Bechhofer–Kulkarni stopping rule, a stopping rule for maximization in Bernoulli processes, is named after her work with her doctoral advisor, Robert E. Bechhofer.[4][5]

Education and career

After earning a master's degree in mathematics at IIT Delhi,[2] Kulkarni went to Cornell University intending to do doctoral research in pure mathematics, but switched to operations research after taking a mathematical programming course in her first year.[6] She earned a second master's degree in 1979 and completed her Ph.D. in 1981.[2] Her doctoral supervisor was Robert E. Bechhofer.[7]

She worked for 35 years at the SAS Institute, including ten years as Vice President of Advanced Analytics R&D.[2] She is the 2022 president of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).[3]

Recognition

Kulkarni was the 2006 winner of the WORMS Award for the Advancement of Women in OR/MS of INFORMS.[8] In 2014 she was named a Fellow of INFORMS.[8][9]

Personal life

Kulkarni married Vidyadhar Kulkarni, another student of operations research at Cornell and later the chair of Statistics and Operations Research at the University of North Carolina.[7]

References

  1. ^ Birth year from WorldCat Identities, accessed 2022-10-01
  2. ^ a b c d Radhika Kulkarni, Cornell Operations Research and Information Engineering, retrieved 2022-10-01
  3. ^ a b Retired VP of Advanced Analytics R&D at SAS Institute, Radhika Kulkarni, elected president-elect of INFORMS, INFORMS, November 2, 2020, retrieved 2022-10-01
  4. ^ Jennison, Christopher (1984), "On the expected sample size for the Bechhofer–Kulkarni Bernoulli selection procedure", Sequential Analysis, 3 (1): 39–49, doi:10.1080/07474948408836051, hdl:1813/8494, MR 0758610
  5. ^ Percus, O. E.; Percus, J. K. (1984), "On the Bechhofer–Kulkarni stopping rule for sequential clinical trials", SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 44 (6): 1164–1175, doi:10.1137/0144083, MR 0766195
  6. ^ "Radhika Kulkarni", What's Your StORy?, INFORMS, 2015, retrieved 2022-10-01
  7. ^ a b ORIE hosts meeting of the Applied Probability Society, Cornell Operations Research and Information Engineering, November 17, 2009, retrieved 2022-10-01
  8. ^ a b "Radhika Kulkarni", Recognizing Excellence: Award Recipients, INFORMS, retrieved 2022-10-01
  9. ^ Radhika Kulkarni of SAS named INFORMS Fellow, SAS Institute, October 20, 2014, retrieved 2022-10-01