Author Profile

Suchi Rajendran is an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering Department and in the Marketing Department in the Trulaske College of Business at the University of Missouri, Columbia. She has worked on projects with companies, such as Case New Holland and Schneider Electric. She is a recipient of the Richard Wallace Faculty Incentive Grant, Bob Bloss Faculty Enhancement Grant, and Winemiller Excellence Award in Data Analytics. She is a Penn State National Science Foundation Center for Health Organization Transformation (NSF CHOT) scholar, Service Enterprise Engineering fellow and also a recipient of the DAAD-WISE Fellowship of Germany. She is a lean six sigma black belt. Her research interests include healthcare delivery systems, supply chain optimization, marketing data analytics, multiple criteria decision making and quality assurance.

Janae Bradley is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Janae recently defended their PhD dissertation in BioEngineering and has over 5 years of research experience as a graduate research assistant.