Kingshuk Sinha

Kingshuk K. Sinha is a Professor in the Supply Chain and Operations Department and the holder of the Elmer L. Andersen Chair in Sustainable Supply Chain. He also serves as a Graduate Faculty in the University of Minnesota-Mayo Clinic interdisciplinary Bioinformatics and Computational Biology program. Prior to pursuing his graduate education, he worked for the offshore oil and gas production and engineering planning groups of Dubai Petroleum Company (operated by Conoco Inc.) in United Arab Emirates.

Dr. Sinha’s areas of scholarly expertise are management of technology, healthcare supply chain management, supply chain resilience, and applications of data analytics and AI to managing supply chains. His inquiries are predominantly empirical, motivated by contemporary and consequential real-world business and societal problems, and conducted, typically, in partnerships with firms and non-profit organizations. His research often has a sectoral focus, and the empirical settings of his projects have included the following sectors: medical technology and healthcare, high-tech, food and agribusiness, retail, energy, and oil and gas.

Currently, Dr. Sinha's inquiries are focused on: (i) evaluating the implications of scientific and technology advancements (e.g., surgical robots, precision medicine, telemedicine, mobile apps and artificial intelligence) in managing healthcare supply chains with a focus on improving affordability, access and awareness of care; (ii) designing AI enabled platforms to reduce disparities in mental healthcare delivery, particularly in underserved communities; (iii) managing healthcare supply chain disruptions with the rapid growth in medical device recalls and pharmaceutical drug related adverse events; (iv) designing and sustaining equitable-critical care supply chains; and (v) evaluating and improving resilience of global supply chains spanning developed and developing countries.

Dr. Sinha has published papers in top-tier academic journals such as Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Operations Management, Information Systems Research, Decision Sciences, Journal of Service Research, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Accounting Research and Journal of Service Research.

As a teacher, Dr. Sinha has taught in the Undergraduate, MBA/MS, Ph.D. and Executive Education programs. The topics of his recent graduate-level electives include: “Digitalization and AI in Supply Chains” and “Supply Chain Management in the Healthcare and Medical Device Sector.” He is actively engaged in teaching modules in the Executive Education Program on topics such as “Managing Technologies in the Supply Chain,” “Foundations of Supply Chain Leadership,” and “Supply Chain Resilience.” Over the years, he has served as the dissertation advisor of a cadre of PhD students who now serve as faculty across universities in the United States. As part of the Carlson School-Tsinghua University Global Doctor of Business Administration Program (GDBA) program, he has served as the dissertation advisor of a cadre of GDBA students who are top-level executives of firms in China and Asia-Pacific region.

On the service dimension of his scholarship, Dr. Sinha served as the Chair of the Supply Chain and Operations Department for 12 years, from 2012-2026. During his tenure as Department Chair, the Carlson School of Management launched a 1-year MS in Supply Chain Management (MS SCM) degree for working professionals in 2016. The MS SCM program is ranked #5 among the supply chain management graduate programs in the United States (2026 QS rankings). He has served as the Director of the Joseph M. Juran Center for Research in Supply Chain, Operations, and Quality. As Director, Dr. Sinha helped to turn around and financially secure the center through endowment fundraising and ensuring that the yields from the endowment are used effectively and responsibly to advance the center’s mission. Dr. Sinha led the efforts that resulted in the creation of the Medical Industry Leadership Institute (MILI) at the University of Minnesota to advance management research and leadership education for the medical/health care sector. He served as the Founding Academic Director of MILI.

Among Dr. Sinha’s editorial responsibilities have included serving as Founding Department Editor (Management of Technology) for the Journal of Operations Management. Currently, he serves as a Senior Editor (Industry Studies and Public Policy) for the Production and Operations Management journal. He has served as the mentor to PureBioX (a University of Minnesota start-up), a recipient of the NSF-SBIR and Minnesota Innovation grants and a member of the National Science Foundation's National Innovation Corps program.

Among Dr. Sinha’s professional recognitions include being the recipient of the University of Minnesota Grand Challenge Grant. He served as the Co-Principal Investigator of the inter-collegiate, university system-wide initiative, Minnesota Precision Medicine Collaborative, aimed at transforming health and advancing health equity across the State of Minnesota through precision medicine. He received the Distinguished Service Award from the Journal of Operations Management for serving as the Founding Editor of the Management of Technology Department. He received the highly competitive Cisco's Tech for Healthcare multi-year research grant to conduct research on designing AI-enabled platforms to reduce disparities in mental healthcare delivery, particularly in the underserved communities. More recently, in 2024, he received the College of Healthcare Operations Management's (Production and Operations Management Society) Best Paper Award for a research study situated in Senegal on advancing women’s health in the least developed countries of the world. In 2025, the PhD dissertation of Dr. Yi Tang entitled, “Essays on Digital Technology-Enabled Mental Healthcare Delivery,” supervised by Dr. Sinha was the winner of the Elwood S. Buffa Doctoral Dissertation Competition Award from the Decision Sciences Institute. This is the third time that a PhD dissertation supervised by Dr. Sinha is the recipient of the Elwood S. Buffa Award.