Alex F. Mills

PhD Students

Prospective students: Fully-funded PhD positions are available in our program.

Are you interested in working with me as a PhD student? I seek students who:

  • want to obtain an academic position at a Business school,
  • have an interest in working on research problems that arise in the service sector, including (but not limited to) healthcare,
  • have a strong general mathematics background, including a working understanding of Calculus-based probability (a Master’s degree is not required if you have the requisite mathematical background via a Bachelor’s degree).

If this sounds like you, please apply to the PhD in Business at the CUNY Graduate Center and select the concentration in Operations and Decision Analytics. Your personal statement should discuss your research interests and you should feel free to mention that you are interested in working with me (particularly if you can explain how our research interests overlap).

If you’d like to discuss your interest prior to applying, please feel free to contact me and articulate the qualifications mentioned above. Note: I receive many e-mails from aspiring doctoral students with unrelated research interests who are simply mass-mailing every faculty member at US business schools; this is not an effective tactic and it is unlikely to get a response. I am happy to discuss your candidacy for the ODA program if you send a personal message that explains why you are specifically interested in talking to me.

Doctoral committee chair

  • Omer Berk Olmez, PhD Candidate in Operations and Decision Analytics, City University of New York. Dissertation research in-progress.
  • Masoud Kamalahmadi, PhD 2020, Kelley School of Business. Placement: Assistant Professor at University of Miami. I served as Masoud’s co-chair until January 2019.

Doctoral committee member

  • Yu Wang, PhD 2019, Kelley School of Business. Placement: Assistant Professor at University of North Carolina Wilmington.
  • Sean Xiaoyang Yu, PhD 2016, Kelley School of Business. Placement: industry position at AlixPartners. Currently at ByteDance.
  • David Cho, PhD 2015, Kelley School of Business. Placement: Assistant Professor at Woodbury University. Currently Assistant Professor at Cal State University Fullerton.

Co-author

I had the pleasure to co-author papers with the following individuals while they were students (although I did not serve on the committee):

  • Kevin Mayo, PhD 2022, Kelley School of Business. Placement: Assistant Professor at Washington State University
  • Andres Jola-Sanchez, PhD 2018, Kelley School of Business. Placement: Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University.
  • Eric Webb, PhD 2018, Kelley School of Business. Placement: Assistant Professor at University of Cincinnati