Charlotte S. Alexander

Charlotte S. Alexander headshot
charlotte.alexander@scheller.gatech.edu

Charlotte S. Alexander is Professor of Law and Ethics at the Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business. Her scholarship focuses on the efficiency, transparency, and openness of the court system, with a particular interest in civil litigation. She uses empirical and computational methods to process large quantities of legal data and uncover patterns in case filing, progress, and resolution. She has an additional research interest in employment law and litigation.

Alexander received her B.A. from Columbia University and her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was elected president of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. After law school, she clerked for Judge Nancy Gertner of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, and then served as a Skadden Fellow and senior staff attorney at Georgia Legal Services’ Farmworker Rights Division.

Alexander’s work is published or forthcoming in a wide variety of peer reviewed and law journals, including Science, the N.Y.U. Law Review, Texas Law Review, Northwestern Law Review, American Business Law Journal, Industrial Relations, Yale Journal of Law and Technology, and the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. She has received research funding from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Labor, and private foundations. In 2023, she worked as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar with the Justice Innovation Lab of the National Judicial Training College in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on projects involving court delays and access to justice.

Professor
Phone
404-413-9000
Office
Scheller 4124
IRI and Role
Artificial Intelligence > ITAB
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > Scheller College of Business
Research Areas
Artificial Intelligence

Beril Toktay

Beril Toktay
beril.toktay@scheller.gatech.edu

Beril Toktay is Professor of Operations Management, Brady Family Chairholder. Her primary research areas are sustainable operations and supply chain management. Professor Toktay's research has been funded by several National Science Foundation grants and has received distinctions such as the 2010 Brady Family Award for Faculty Research Excellence and the MSOM Society's 2015 Management Science Best Paper in Operations Management Award. Her research articles have appeared in Management Science, M&SOM, Operations Research, Production and Operations Management and Industrial Ecology. She became a Distinguished Fellow of the MSOM Society in 2017.

Professor Toktay has taught Supply Chain Management courses at the PhD, MBA, and Executive Education levels as well as Operations Management and Operations Research courses at the PhD level. She has developed cases and pedagogical material for MBA and Executive Education audiences and co-curricular educational initiatives at the undergraduate level. She currently teaches Business Strategies for Sustainability in MBA and Executive Education programs. She's a recipient of the 2016 Ernest Scheller Jr. Award for Service Excellence and the Georgia Tech 2015 Women of Distinction Award.

Professor Toktay served as Associate Editor for M&SOM (2007-2018), POM (2009-2013), and Management Science (2011-2017), and Area Editor (Environment, Energy and Sustainability) for Operations Research (2012-2018). She co-edited the M&SOM Special Issue on the Environment. She was the President of the MSOM Society and VP of Finance of the POM Society. At Georgia Tech, she serves as the Scheller College of Business ADVANCE Professor, a role that is focused on supporting the advancement of women and underrepresented minorities in academia. She is the founding Faculty Director of the Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business and the co-architect and Executive Co-Director of Georgia Tech's Serve.Learn.Sustain Quality Enhancement Plan.

Interim Executive Director, Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems
Professor of Operations Management and Brady Family Chair
Faculty Director, Ray C. Anderson Center for Sustainable Business
Phone
404.385.0104
Office
800 West Peachtree Street, N.W., Room 4426
Additional Research
Sustainable operations; closed-loop supply chains; supply chain management; Strategic Planning
IRI and Role
Sustainable Systems > Staff
Manufacturing > Affiliated Faculty
Energy > Faculty Council
Energy > Research Community
Sustainable Systems
Manufacturing
Energy
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > Scheller College of Business
Research Areas
Sustainable Systems
  • Economics and Business of Sustainability

Peter Swire

Peter Swire
peter.swire@scheller.gatech.edu

Peter Swire, J.D., is Associate Director of Policy for the Institute for Information Security & Privacy. Swire has been a privacy and cyberlaw scholar, government leader, and practitioner since the rise of the Internet in the 1990's. In 2013, he became the Nancy J. and Lawrence P. Huang Professor of Law and Ethics at the Georgia institute of Technology. Swire teaches in the Scheller College of Business, with appointments by courtesy with the College of Computing and School of Public Policy. He is senior counsel with the law firm of Alston & Bird LLP. Swire served as one of five members of President Obama's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology. Prior to that, he was co-chair of the global Do Not Track process for the World Wide Web Consortium. He is a senior fellow with the Future of Privacy Forum, and a policy fellow with the Center for Democracy and Technology. Under President Clinton, Swire was the chief counselor for privacy in the U.S. Office of Management and Budget -- the only person to date to have U.S. government-wide responsibility for privacy policy. In that role, his activities included being White House coordinator for the HIPAA medical privacy rule, chairing a White House task force on how to update wiretap laws for the Internet age, and helping negotiate the U.S.-E.U. Safe Harbor agreement for trans-border data flows.Under President Obama, he was special assistant to the President for economic policy. Swire is author of five books and numerous scholarly papers. He has testified often before the Congress, and been quoted regularly in the press. He has served on privacy and security advisory boards for companies including Google, IBM, Intel, and Microsoft, as well as a number of start-ups. Swire graduated from Princeton University, summa cum laude, and the Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal.

Associate Director, Policy
Phone
404-385-3279
Office
Scheller 4163
Additional Research
Data Security & Privacy
IRI and Role
Data Engineering and Science > Faculty
People and Technology > Affiliated Faculty
Data Engineering and Science
People and Technology
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > Scheller College of Business

Dori Pap

Dori Pap
dori.pap@scheller.gatech.edu

Dori Pap is the Managing Director of the Institute for Leadership and Social Impact (formerly the Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship). She directs the Leadership for Social Good Study Abroad Program in Central and Eastern Europe, coordinates the Impact Speaker Series, runs the annual Ideas to Serve student social innovation competition, and teaches courses on social entrepreneurship. 

Outside Tech, Dori serves on the board of Global Growers Network, a nonprofit organization that connects the agricultural talent of the refugee community in and around Atlanta to opportunities in sustainable agriculture. She is a board member for the Center for Civic Innovation, an organization that works at the frontline of civics education and advocacy, and she serves on the board of the Georgia Social Impact Collaborative. Dori is a triple Yellow Jacket and is currently pursuing her doctorate degree at the Institute for Higher Education at UGA.

Managing Director, Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship
BBISS Co-lead: Collaborative Social Impact
Phone
404-385-3278
Office
ILSI 4152
IRI and Role
Sustainable Systems > Initiative Lead
Sustainable Systems
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > Scheller College of Business
Research Areas
Sustainable Systems
  • Sustainability Education Research
  • Global Sustainable Development

Alexander Oettl

Alexander Oettl
alex.oettl@scheller.gatech.edu

Alex Oettl joined Scheller in 2009.  His research interests include the economics of innovation, knowledge spillovers, labor mobility, and economic geography.  His current work focuses on the production and diffusion of ideas at the individual, firm, and regional level.

Professor Oettl's research has been published in Management Science, Organization Science, Nature, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Journal of Urban Economics, Research Policy, Journal of International Business Studies, profiled in multiple media outlets, and presented at business schools around the world. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a recipient of the Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research.

PhD Coordinator, Strategy & Innovation
Co-Site Lead, CDL-Atlanta
Associate Professor
BBISS Lead: Sustainability at the Creative Destruction Lab
Phone
404-385-4570
Additional Research
Economics of InnovationProduction and Diffusion of Ideas
IRI and Role
Sustainable Systems > Initiative Lead
Sustainable Systems
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > Scheller College of Business
Research Areas
Sustainable Systems
  • Economics and Business of Sustainability

Marius Niculescu

Marius Niculescu
Marius.Niculescu@scheller.gatech.edu
Marius Florin Niculescu joined Georgia Tech College of Business in the fall of 2009 after completing his Ph.D. in Operations, Information and Technology at Stanford Graduate School of Business. His research focuses on the economics of information systems, software freemium and seeding business models, network economics, management and diffusion of IT products and services, mobile telecommunications, software release and pricing, software quality management, cloud computing, and online distribution of video entertainment. Niculescu's research has been published in Management Science and Information Systems Research, and presented at numerous conferences in the field and research seminars at peer universities (link to his Google Scholar profile). Niculescu's work received 2013 AIS Best Publication of the Year Award, Best Conference Paper Award at the 2012 INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology, and the Brady Family Award for Faculty Research Excellence at Scheller College of Business, Georgia Tech in 2013. Niculescu joins the Information Systems Research editorial board as an Associate Editor starting in January 2016. He also served as a guest Associate Editor for Production and Operations Management Journal, an Associate Editor for the International Conference on Information Systems and the Europoean Conference on Information Systems, as well as ad-hoc reviewer for the majority of the top journals in the field. In 2012 and 2015, Niculescu received the Management Science Distinguished and Meritorious Service Awards. In 2015, he also received the 2015 Information Systems Research Reviewer of the Year award. He also served as the president of the eBusiness section of INFORMS during 2013. Moreover, Niculescu was a co-chair of the Organizing Committee for the 2015 INFORMS Conference on Information Systems and Technology. At Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business, Niculescu serves as the ITM Ph.D. Coordinator and as a member of the Undergraduate Committee. Moreover, at the Institute level, Niculescu is a Georgia Tech Grand Challenges Faculty Fellow and also a Faculty Council Member on the Information Securiy and Privacy Interdisciplinary Research Institute at Georgia Tech.
Associate Professor
Phone
404-385-3105
Office
Scheller 470
Additional Research
Cloud Security; IT Economics;
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > Scheller College of Business

Zahra Mobini

Zahra Mobini
zahra.mobini@scheller.gatech.edu

Zahra Mobini is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at Scheller College of Business. Her research interests revolve around the design and analysis of human-centric solutions to operations management problems, with a focus on healthcare operations. Using empirical and analytical methods, she studies how advancements in technology, regulations, and clinical protocols influence provider and patient behavior, and how to align their incentives for optimal outcomes. Her research has been supported by the Work in the Age of Intelligent Machines (WAIM) Research Fellowship with funding from the NSF's Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier Initiative. Her contributions have been recognized by the INFORMS Decision Analysis Society and POMS College of Healthcare Operations.

Zahra completed her PhD in Management Science - Operations Management at the UT Dallas Jindal School of Management and was a George Family Foundation postdoctoral fellow at Georgia Tech’s ISyE before joining Scheller.

Assistant Professor
Additional Research

Behavioral and Human-Centric Operations Management Healthcare Operations Health Analytics

IRI and Role
Data Engineering and Science > Faculty
Data Engineering and Science
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > Scheller College of Business

Saby Mitra

Saby Mitra
Saby.Mitra@scheller.gatech.edu
Saby Mitra, Ph.D., is professor of Information Technology Management and senior associate dean at the Scheller College of Business at Georgia Tech. From 2007 to 2013, he was also the faculty director of the Executive MBA program in the Scheller College. He is the academic director of several executive programs for senior IT and technology managers in various organizations, such as Bank of America and the Society for Cable TV Engineers. He has published extensively on various technology management topics including information security management. His research has appeared in several premier journals such as Management Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Operations Management, INFORMS Journal on Computing, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, and Journal of Management Information Systems. He serves as Senior Editor of Information Systems Research, the premier business school journal in the information systems area. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa and his Bachelor's of Science - Technology degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology.
Associate Director, Risk
Phone
404-894-4365
Office
Scheller 3305
Additional Research
IT Economics;
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > Scheller College of Business

Basak Kalkanci

Basak Kalkanci
Basak.Kalkanci@scheller.gatech.edu
Assistant Professor of Operations Management
Phone
(404) 385-1417
IRI and Role
Energy > Research Community
Energy
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > Scheller College of Business

Soumen Ghosh

Soumen Ghosh
soumen.ghosh@scheller.gatech.edu
Professor
Phone
404-894-4927
Additional Research
Operations Management
IRI and Role
People and Technology > Affiliated Faculty
People and Technology
University, College, and School/Department
Georgia Institute of Technology > Scheller College of Business