Analytics & Operations

Operations Management faculty and PhD students are part of the Department of Analytics, Marketing and Operations. The department welcomes applicants from a wide variety of academic disciplines who are united by a desire to research and provide insight into high-technology industries.

Doctoral students can benefit from the multi-disciplinary nature of the Operations Management team through collaboration with Imperial’s other departments such as Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, which provides a rich research community. With its small intake, the programme provides a supportive environment, preparing students for academic careers in top Business Schools worldwide.

Research areas

The Operations Management theme studies the design and management of production and business processes across the manufacturing and services sectors. The research interests of the Faculty are broad, with expertise in services, pricing, transportation, risk management, machine learning, revenue management, manufacturing, supply chain, health, energy, retail, digital transformation, the interface between operations management and marketing, decision-making under uncertainty, as well as stochastic programming and robust optimisation and computational finance.