Bio

Raman Randhawa is the Charles L. and Ramona I. Hilliard Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Data Sciences and Operations at USC Marshall School of Business. His work sits at the intersection of AI, institutional design, and leadership, focusing on how data-driven systems shape access, outcomes, and human decision-making in large-scale settings such as healthcare, justice administration, and education. As a former Senior Vice Dean for Academic Programs, he led institution-wide innovation across undergraduate, master's, and MBA programs, including conceiving the AI for Business undergraduate joint degree and co-leading a faculty-wide Generative AI education initiative. He is also an AI entrepreneur, as co-founder of Pathomiq, developing AI platforms for cancer diagnostics, and as an advisor to Turiyam.ai on next-generation compute infrastructure. Randhawa holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University and a B.Tech. from IIT Delhi.

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Full Background

Research

Randhawa's research addresses fundamental questions at the intersection of operations management, artificial intelligence, and institutional design, focusing on how data-driven models shape access and outcomes in large-scale service systems spanning healthcare, justice administration, and retail analytics. His award-winning paper "Service Operations for Justice-On-Time" received the 2025 MSOM Service SIG Best Paper Award for applying queueing theory to court system capacity and delay. His work appears in leading journals including Management Science, Operations Research, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, The Accounting Review, and JAMA Network Open. He serves as Area Editor for Operations Research.

Industry Impact

Randhawa co-founded Pathomiq, a company developing AI-powered platforms for cancer diagnostics and personalized medicine. The technology creates comprehensive phenotype atlases across cancer pathology, enabling more precise grading and treatment prediction. He also advises Turiyam.ai on building next-generation compute infrastructure.

Academic Leadership

Randhawa served as Senior Vice Dean for Academic Programs and Vice Dean for Undergraduate Programs (2020–2025), leading comprehensive curricular innovation across all undergraduate, master's, and MBA programs serving 7,000+ students through critical periods including pandemic transition and recovery. He previously chaired the Data Sciences and Operations department (2018–2020), leading 40+ faculty while managing research strategy and curricular development in a rapidly evolving field.

Curricular Innovation

Randhawa conceived and launched USC's inaugural four-year joint undergraduate degrees—transformative programs integrating business with technical and creative disciplines. These include the pioneering AI for Business program (with Viterbi Engineering), Business of Cinematic Arts, Real Estate Finance & Development (with Price Public Policy), and Business of Innovation (with Iovine & Young Academy). He co-led the Faculty Generative AI Education Initiative and created educational decision-making games now deployed in operations and analytics courses at leading universities worldwide.

Background

Randhawa earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2006 and B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 2001, where he received the President of India's Gold Medal.