Suvrat recently graduated from the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management with a dissertation titled ‘Operationalizing Environmental Sustainability through Policy-based and Market-based Approaches.’ During the course of his PhD, he received the University Dissertation Fellowship, Harold Hardy Fellowship, Kristy Cua Award and Carlson Teaching Excellence Award. Suvrat's research interests include sustainable operations, online surplus markets and technology management and his primary methodological expertise lies in the domain of econometric/statistical analysis. His work has been published in the Journal of Operations Management and Production and Operations Management. Suvrat will be teaching Manufacturing and Service Strategies in fall 2015.