Panos Kouvelis is currently a Professor of Operations and Manufacturing Management at teh Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis.
He received his PhD in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management at Stanford University, MBA and MS in Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California, and a diploma in Mechanical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens. He has previously taught at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University and the Management Department of the University of Texas at Austin. He teaches courses in Global Operations and Logistics, Operations Strategy and Operations Management. He has received numerous teaching awards and has been frequently mentioned as a top operations management profressor in surveys of top MBA programs by Business Week. He often teaches in executive management programs and offers short customized courses to interested companies. He currebtly teaches in the Executive Master's in Manufacturing Management at The Olin School of Business.
He is an accomplished and prolific researcher, ranked in the top ten oerations management researchers in terms of research productivity and quality (recent survey in Journal of Operations Management). His research interests include global supply chain management, manufacturing strategy, the study of marketing/manufacturing interfaces, project management, scheduling of operations, process reengineering and layout design. He has published over forty articles in Management Science, Operations Research, Naval Research Logistics, IIE Transactions, Productions and Operations Management, Journal of Operations Management, European Journal of Operations Research, Operation Research Letters, Journal of Operational Research Society and other high quality academic journals. He also frequently contributes chapters in edited books on global supply chain management and optimization issues. He currently serves as Department Editor of Project Selection, Coordination and Management of IIE Transactions, as associate editor of Supply Chain Management Issues of Management Science, and is on the editorial board of POMS and MSOM. In the past he edited special issues for the Journal of Global Optimization and the Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing. His book on Robust Discrete Optimization was published in 1997. He has consulted with IBM, Dell Computers, Hanes, Duke Hospital and Reckitt & Colman on supply chain, operations scheduling and manufacturing system design issues.