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Prakash P. Shenoy
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
About Prakash P. ShenoyBIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHPrakash P. Shenoy is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the School of Business, University of Kansas at Lawrence. He received a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India, in 1973, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Operations Research/Industrial Engineering from Cornell University in 1975 and 1977, respectively. He joined the faculty of the School of Business at the University of Kansas at Lawrence in Fall 1978. In 1994, he was appointed as the Ronald G. Harper Distinguished Professor of Artificial Intelligence. He retired in August 2023. His research interests are in the areas of artificial intelligence and decision sciences. He is the inventor of valuation-based systems, an abstract framework for knowledge representation and inference that includes Bayesian probabilities, Dempster-Shafer belief functions, Spohn's kappa calculus, Zadeh's possibility theory, propositional logic, optimization, solving systems of equations, database retrieval, and other domains. He is also the co-author, with G. Shafer, of the so-called Shenoy-Shafer architecture for finding marginals of joint distributions using local computation. He has published several articles on uncertainty management in expert systems, decision analysis, and the mathematical theory of games. His articles have appeared in Operations Research, Management Science, International Journal of Game Theory, Artificial Intelligence, and International Journal of Approximate Reasoning. He has received several research grants/contracts from the Database and Expert Systems (DES) and Decision, Risk and Management Science (DRMS) programs of the National Science Foundation, the Research Opportunities in Auditing program of the Peat Marwick Main Foundation, the Higher Education Academic Development Donations program of Apple Computer, Inc., the Information Sciences Department of Hughes Research Laboratories, Space Dynamics Laboratory of Utah State University, Information Extraction and Transport, Inc., Science Applications International Corp., Sparta, Inc., Raytheon Missile Systems, Inc., Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, and American International Group, Inc. His teaching interests are in the areas of uncertain reasoning, decision analysis, and game theory. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on uncertain reasoning, decision analysis, linear programming, non-linear programming, game theory, management information systems, and decision support systems. He has served on doctoral dissertation committees of over forty PhD students in Management Science, Marketing, Accounting, Strategic Management, Economics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Geography, Civil Engineering, Nursing, and Philosophy, twelve as chairperson. He has thrice received the Outstanding Mentor Award from the Association of Business Doctoral Students, an Excellence in Teaching Award from the Center for Teaching Excellence, and an Outstanding Mentor Award from the Graduate and Professional Association of the University of Kansas. He serves as an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Approximate Reasoning and as an ad-hoc referee for over 30 journals and conferences in Artificial Intelligence and Management Science/Operations Research. He has served as an Area Editor for International Journal of Fuzziness and Knowledge-Based Systems, as an Associate Editor of Operations Research, as an Associate Editor of Management Science, as Program Co-Chair of the Thirteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence held at Brown University, Providence, 1997, and as Conference Chair of the Fourteenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1998. In Summer 2012, with the help of Dean Neeli Bendapudi, and his colleagues in Decision Sciences, Marketing, and Finance, he formed the Center for Business Analytics Research (CBAR) in the University of Kansas School of Business, and served as an academic co-director (with Professor Steve Hillmer) until his retirement in 2023. EDUCATION
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