Portrait of Prof. Hardeep Johar  

Hardeep Johar

SENIOR LECTURER IN THE DISCIPLINE OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND OPERATIONS RESEARCH AND IN THE DISCIPLINE OF BUSINESS

340 S.W. Mudd 
Mail Code 4704 

Tel(212) 854-7301

Research Interests

Operations research, text mining, machine learning

Johar received an M.A. in Economics from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science and is a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. He received a Ph.D. in Information Systems from the Stern School of Business, New York University in 1994. Prior to joining Columbia, Johar has worked as a quantitative trader at Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank, at a tech startup (MSpoke), and has taught at NYU Stern School of Business and the Gabelli School of Business Fordham University.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • Lecturer in Discipline, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University. 2016 -
  • Adjunct Professor, Columbia Business School, 2010 - 2016
  • Adjunct Professor, Stern School, New York University, 2014 - 2016
  • Adjunct Professor, Graduate School of Business, Fordham University, 2009 – 2016
  • VP Professional Services/Member Advisory Board. MSpoke, Inc. 2004-2008
  • Director, Deutsche Bank, 2000 - 2004
  • Vice President, Credit Suisse First Boston, 1998-1999
  • Associate, Morgan Stanley, 1995 – 1998
  • Assistant Professor, School of Business, Rider University. 1994 - 1995

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Hardeep Johar, “SoftCord: An intelligent agent for coordination in software design project,” Decision Support Systems..,20, 1 (1997).
  • Hardeep Johar, “Coordination Agents in Design: A Formal Analysis,” Journal of Intelligent Systems, 8, 3/4 (1998).