Kingshuk Sinha

Kingshuk K. Sinha is a Professor and Chair of the Supply Chain and Operations Department, and is the holder of the Elmer L. Andersen Chair in Sustainable Supply Chain. He also serves as a Graduate Faculty in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. 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 research interests and expertise include management of technology, healthcare supply chain management, responsible supply chain management, global supply chain management, and AI and data analytics applications to designing and sustaining supply chains. His inquiries are predominantly empirical, motivated by contemporary and consequential real-world business and societal problems, and conducted, typically, in partnership with firms and not-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. 

Dr. Sinha's current inquiries are focused on: (i) evaluating the implications of scientific and technology advancements (e.g., surgical robots, precision medicine, telemedicine and mobile apps) 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) the transparency 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, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science and Journal of Accounting Research. 

He has designed and taught courses in the undergraduate, MBA/MS and Ph.D. programs. The topics of his recent graduate-level electives include: “Big Data Analytics 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,” and “Foundations of Supply Chain Leadership.” 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 working full-time in China and the surrounding region.

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. Dr. Sinha served as the Founding Academic Director of MILI. His recent editorial responsibilities 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 2023 cohort of NSF's National Innovation Corps program

Dr. Sinha is the recipient of a number of professional recognitions that include the following. In 2016, he received the University of Minnesota Grand Challenge Grant and 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. In 2017, he was recognized as the “MS in Supply Chain Management Teacher of the Year.” In 2019, he received the Distinguished Service Award from the Journal of Operations Management. In 2021, he was the recipient of the Cisco's Tech for Healthcare Grant to conduct research on designing AI enabled platforms to reduce disparities in mental healthcare delivery, particularly in the underserved communities. In 2024, he was a co-recipient of the College of Healthcare Operations Management's (Production and Operations Management Society) Best Paper Award documenting a study situated in Senegal on advancing women's health in the least developed countries of the world.