John Khawam
- Research Area(s)
- Economics and Electronic Commerce
John is a Senior Quantitative Analyst for Operations Decision Support at Google
(2013-present). Some projects that he has led include Google Fiber bandwidth grooming
optimization, inventory optimization for network fabric expansion, warehouse space
modeling, cloud capacity and efficiency modeling, spares forecasting and
optimization, hot sparing for UAVs serving internet, vendor service contract
optimization, and NetOps spares optimization, and production inventory optimization
for Global Capacity Delivery. Before joining Google, he was an Assistant Professor at
the Graduate School of Business and Public Policy in the Naval Postgraduate School
(2010-2013). John spent 2009-2010 as a Postdoc at WHU, Otto Beisheim School of
Management and received his Ph.D. from the Department of Management Science &
Engineering at Stanford University in 2009. John’s thesis, titled Warranty Inventory
Management and Supplier Decision Models, focuses on warranty inventory management in
the presence of a reverse supply chain. John received his Master's Degree (2001) and
B.S. (2000) from Cornell University's OR&IE Department. He worked at Lord and
Taylor (2001-2004) as an internal consultant, where he received Six Sigma training.
He has also worked at Gap Inc., Eaton Corp., Allied Signal, and End-2-End Analytics.
Google Publications
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Buyer and Nonprofit Levers to Improve Supplier Environmental Performance
Ozgen Karaer, Tim Kraft, John Khawam
Production and Operations Management (2016) (to appear)
