Radhika Kulkarni

Radhika Kulkarni
Born
Radhika Devarajan

(1956-03-24) March 24, 1956
Bangalore
EducationIndian Institute of Technology Delhi (M.Sc.)
Cornell University (M.S., Ph.D.)[1]
Known forBechhofer–Kulkarni selection procedure[2][3]
AwardsINFORMS Fellow (2014)[4]
WORMS Award for the Advancement of Women in OR/MS (2006)
Scientific career
FieldsOperations research
WorkplacesSAS Institute
Thesis An Investigation of Procedures for Sequential Ranking and Selection of Bernoulli Populations  (1981)
Robert E. Bechhofer

Radhika Vidyadhar Kulkarni (born 1956) is a retired Indian and American operations researcher,[5][6] and the 2022 president of INFORMS.[7]

The Bechhofer–Kulkarni selection procedure or Bechhofer–Kulkarni stopping rule, a stopping rule for maximization in Bernoulli processes, is named after her work with her doctoral advisor, Robert E. Bechhofer.[2][3]

Education and career

After earning a master's degree in mathematics at IIT Delhi,[5] Kulkarni went to Cornell University intending to do doctoral research in pure mathematics, but switched to operations research after taking a mathematical programming course in her first year.[5] She earned a second master's degree in 1979 and completed her Ph.D. in 1981 under advisor Robert E. Bechhofer.[1]

She worked for 35 years at the SAS Institute, including ten years as Vice President of Advanced Analytics R&D.[7] She is the 2022 president of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).[7]

Recognition

Personal life

Radhika came to Cornell in 1977 to pursue a PhD in mathematics, but in fall 1978, she switched to Operations Research to work with Professor Robert Bechhofer. She came to Cornell because Cornell was the only university that agreed to waive the $20 application fee until she arrived. Even after switching from math to OR, Math funded her second year.

At Cornell, she met Vidyadhar G. Kulkarni, whom she later married. Interestingly, he, too, came to Cornell because Cornell was the only university to offer a temporary waiver of the $20 application fee. They have three sons, all of whom graduated from Cornell.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 Kulkarni, Radhika Vidyadhar (1981). Closed Adaptive Sequential Procedures for Selecting the Best of K ≥ 2 Bernoulli Populations (Doctoral dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved 2026-07-17 – via ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global.
  2. 1 2 Jennison, Christopher (1984), "On the expected sample size for the Bechhofer–Kulkarni Bernoulli selection procedure", Sequential Analysis, 3 (1): 39–49, doi:10.1080/07474948408836051, hdl:1813/8494, MR 0758610
  3. 1 2 Percus, O. E.; Percus, J. K. (1984), "On the Bechhofer–Kulkarni stopping rule for sequential clinical trials", SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 44 (6): 1164–1175, doi:10.1137/0144083, MR 0766195
  4. 1 2 "2014 INFORMS Fellows". INFORMS. Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. October 2, 2014. Archived from the original on 2024-09-19. Retrieved 2026-07-18.
  5. 1 2 3 "A life and a career spent finding the right solutions". Cornell University School of Operations Research and Information Engineering. March 1, 2024. Retrieved 2026-07-17.
  6. ↑ "Radhika Kulkarni". INFORMS. Retrieved 2026-07-17.
  7. 1 2 3 "Radhika Kulkarni". INFORMS. Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. Retrieved 2026-07-18.
  8. ↑ "A life and a career spent finding the right solutions". Cornell Duffield Engineering. Cornell University. March 1, 2024. Retrieved 2026-07-18.
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