Faculty Profile

G. "Anand" Anandalingam Dean & Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Management Science Office:  2570 Van Munching Hall Phone: 301-405-2306  Fax: 301-314-9120 Email: ganand@rhsmith.umd.edu

EDUCATION
B.A., Electrical Sciences, Cambridge University
S.M., Operations Research with Economics, Harvard University
Ph.D., Operations Research with Economics, Harvard University

AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Professor Anandalingam works in the area of pricing, economics, design, and strategic issues in electronic markets and telecommunications networks. He has published more than 75 papers, and has two edited volumes on Telecommunications Systems management. Anand has recently published a book entitled Beware the Winner's Curse (Oxford University Press) co-written with Professor Hank Lucas that provides a critical evaluation of the technology and dot.com boom of the 1990s. Anand is the Principal Investigator for a $2 Million National Science Foundation grant that studies electronic markets for time-sensitive goods. Over the past 15 years, his research has been funded by industrial and government sponsors including the National Science Foundation, Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), AT&T, Unisys, the Department of Energy, and Dell.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Before becoming dean of the Smith School in 2008, he was senior associate dean, and before that, chair of the decision, operations and information technologies department. He joined the Smith School in 2001 as Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Management Science. He is the founder of the Center on Electronic Markets and Enterprises at the Smith School of Business, and was the co-Director from 2001-2004. Before joining Maryland, Anand was with the University of Pennsylvania for almost 15 years where he was the National Center Professor of Resource and Technology Management, and a professor of operations and information management at the Wharton School . He was chair of the Department of Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania from January 1997 to May 2001. He also directed the Executive Master's Program in Technology Management from 1990 to 1995.

Anand has been an Associate Editor of Management Science and Operations Research, and served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Telecommunications Systems and Networks and Spatial Economics. He has also guest edited a volume of Management Science on Electronic Markets. He is a Senior Member of both INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and Management Science) and IEEE ( Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers).

Dean Anandalingam has regularly consulted with both Fortune 1000 and start-up companies including SBC Communications, KPMG, GE Capital, AT&T, Nokia, MCI, Baysoft, Amtrak, and the World Bank. In the early 1980s, he started a resources consulting firm called IDEA Inc. with a number of colleagues, and in the late 1990s, a consulting firm called Network Ideas Inc. Both these companies were closed after short successful runs.