Pavithra Harsha

Pavithra Harsha is a principal research staff member with IBM Research. Her research interests are at the intersection AI, machine learning, optimization, decision making under uncertainty with applications to problems in ITOps, supply chains, pricing, and revenue management. She has successfully contributed to several PoCs and PoTs with retail and airline clients and has also contributed to commercially used pricing and inventory management solutions. Harsha received a PhD in Operations Research from the Operations Research Center (ORC) at MIT in 2008. Prior to joining IBM, she worked at Oracle Retail and was a postdoctoral associate at the Laboratory of Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) at MIT. She is the recipient of many INFORMS awards including the Aviation Application Dissertation Prize, the Transportation Science and Logistics Dissertation Prize, Services Science Best Cluster Paper award, Revenue Management Practice Award and M&SOM practice-based research Award and many IBM awards including the IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award and the Outstanding Innovation Award.