Juan Camilo Serpa
Title:
Associate Professor and Area Coordinator, Operations Management
Academic title(s):
William Dawson Scholar
Academic Director, Management Science Research Centre
Director, Data Mangrove: Sustainability Hub
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Area(s):
Operations Management
Teaching areas:
- Government operations
- Big data and analytics
- AI for animal rights and biodiversity
Link(s):
Office:
534
Group:
Faculty
Tenured & Tenure Track
Research areas:
Supply Chain Management
Sustainability Collaboration
Selected publications:
- Project Networks and Reallocation Externalities (with Vibhuti Dhingra and H. Kri).
- Management Science (2024) forthcoming
- Selected at the 2022 MSOM SIG Conference
- Managing Airfares under Competition: A field Experiment (with Maxime Cohen and Alexandre Jacquillat)
- Management Science (2023), 69(10)
- Inventory in Times of War (with Andres Jola)
- Management Science (2021), 67(10)
- Oversight and Efficiency in Public Projects: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis (with Eduard Calvo and Ruomeng Cui)
- Management Science (2020), 65(1)
- Supply Chain Proximity and Product Quality (with Robert Bray and Ahmet Colak)
- Management Science (2019), 65(9)
- The Impact of Supply Chains on Firm-Level Productivity (with H. Kri)
- Management Science (2018), 64(2). Featured Article
- The Strategic Role of Business Insurance (with H. Kri).
- 1st prize, 2015 Production & Operations Management Student Paper Competition
- Management Science (2017), 63(2)
- Policy Incentives for Dangerous (But Necessary) Operations (with H. Kri)
- Production and Operations Management (2016), 25(10)
- Performance Rankings and the Big-or-Small-Fish Dilemma (With Eduard Calvo and Laura Wagner). 2023
- Management Science, Revise and resubmit (2nd round)
- When Platforms Go Public, Standards Drop (with Maxime Cohen)
- Production and Operations Management, Revise and resubmit (2nd round)
Research Grants
- SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant
- Amount: $24,870 (2024)
- Role: Principal Investigator
- SSHRC Connection Grant
- Amount: $48,600 (2024)
- Role: Principal Investigator
- NSERC General Research Fund
- Amount: $5,000 (2023)
- Role: Principal Investigator
- SSHRC Insight Development Grant
- Amount: $63,700 (2023-2025)
- Role: Principal Investigator
- NSERC Discovery Grant
- Amount: $126,000 (2022-2027)
- Role: Principal (and Sole) Investigator
- NSERC Discovery - Early Career Launch Supplement Grant
- Amount: $12,500 (2022)
- Role: Principal (and Sole) Investigator
- William Dawson Scholar Fund
- Amount: $125,000 (2019-2024)
- SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant: Introducing AI in Community Organizations: Designing and Implementing Smart Meals-on-Wheels Operations
- Amount: $24,795 (2021-2022)
- Role: Principal Investigator
- Partner organization: Santropol Roulant
- SSHRC New Frontiers Grant: AI-Tribunal for Small Claims: Building an Intelligent Dispute Resolution System
- Amount: $244,562 (2019-2021)
- Role: Co-applicant (with Samuel Dahan, Maxime Cohen, Xiaodan Zhu, Yuri Levin, Jonathan Touboul)
- Covid-19 Rapid Response Grant: Quebec Data Central for Impact of COVID-19 on Society and Business and for a Post-Pandemic World
- Amount: $18,993 (2020-2021)
- Role: Principal Applicant
- SSHRC Insight Development Grant: Collaboration in Networks— The Paradox of Flexibility
- Amount: $50,000 (2019-2021)
- Role: Principal (and Sole) investigator.
- Fonds du Recherche du Québec, Societé et Culture -- Estimation de la relation entre la qualité du produit et la proximité de la chaîne d'approvisionnement
- Amount: $57,150 (2016-2019)
- Role: Principal (and Sole) investigator
- SSHRC Internal Development Grant
- Amount: $6,000 (2019)
- Role: Principal (and Sole) investigator.
- McGill Startup Grant
- Amount: $45,000 (2016-2019)
Teaching Awards
- 2021: 1st Prize, Principal's Award for Excellence in Teaching (top teaching award at McGill University, among all departments)
- 2019: Desautels Teaching Award - Top Elective Teaching (McGill University)
- 2017: World's top 40 undergraduate professors (Poets and Quants)
- 2017: Desautels Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award - Top Undergraduate Teacher (McGill University)
- 2015: Killam Award for excellence in teaching (University of British Columbia)
- 2013: Paul Chwelos Memorial Award for excellence in teaching (University of British Columbia)
Invited research seminars
- 2022: University of Virginia (Darden); nPlan (London, UK)
- 2021: Stu Clark Distinguish Speaker — University of Manitoba
- 2020: University of Pennsylvania (Wharton), Ohio State University
- 2019: Harvard University; University of British Columbia; ESMT-Berlin; University of Utah; Cornell University.
- 2018: London Business School.
- 2017: New York University (March); Duke University (March).
- 2016: Northwestern University (June); HEC Montreal (October).
- 2015: University of Michigan (January); Washington University in St. Louis (January); Duke University (January); University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (January); Indiana University (January); Queen's University (January); University of Western Ontario (January); McGill University (December).
- 2014: Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (December); IESE School of Business (December); Ryerson University (December).
Teaching Evaluations
- Summer 2021:
- Statistical Foundations of Data Analytics (4.9/ 5.0)
- COVID-19 Analytics: The Four Seasons of a Pandemic (5.0/5.0)
- Fall 2020:
- Multivariate Statistics and data analytics, Masters (4.8 /5.0)
- Statistical Foundations of Data Analytics (4.8 and 4.9/ 5.0)
- Advanced topics in Management Science, MBA (4.9 /5.0)
- Summer 2020:
- COVID-19 Analytics: The Four Seasons of a Pandemic (5.0/ 5.0)
- Statistical Foundations of Data Analytics (4.9/ 5.0)
- Advanced topics in Management Science, MBA (4.9 /5.0)
- Fall 2019:
- Statistical Foundations of Data Analytics - 2 sections (5.0 and 4.9 / 5.0)
- Multivariate Statistics and data analytics, Masters ( 4.9 /5.0)
- Advanced topics in Management Science, MBA (4.9 /5.0)
- Fall 2018:
- Statistical Foundations of Data Analytics - 2 sections (5.0 and 4.9 / 5.0)
- Multivariate Statistics and data analytics, Masters ( 4.8 /5.0)
- Advanced topics in Management Science, MBA (4.7 /5.0)
- Fall 2017:
- Statistical Foundations of Data Analytics (5.0/5.0)
- Introductory Business Statistics - 2 sections ( 4.9 and 4.7/ 5.0)
- Fall 2016
- Introductory Business Statistics - 2 sections (4.8 and 4.9/5.0)