[AISWorld] In honor of Shailesh Kulkarni

[Kappelman, Leon]

As many of you know, the UNT College of Business established The Shailesh Kulkarni Faculty Research Fund and the ITDS Department created The Professor Shailesh Kulkarni Memorial Scholarship Fund.  The accounts are being set up and you will soon be able to contribute to those two memorial funds online.  But in the meantime, Shailesh Kulkarni's family and friends have set up a fundraising campaign for Dr. Kukarni's Children's Education Fund and we can contribute to that now - just follow this link gf.me/u/jsi5m5<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgf.me%2Fu%2Fjsi5m5&data=01%7C01%7CAudhesh.Paswan%40unt.edu%7C81b20e364bea41d3aef608d5e72a103a%7C70de199207c6480fa318a1afcba03983%7C0&sdata=4s%2FcgT8v%2FNtcQ5hLcSVBN8tR%2BDGA%2Fhi%2BS5iahJ%2Ff9OM%3D&reserved=0>.

About Professor Kulkarni: Shailesh Kulkarni, 48, of Denton, Professor of Business Analytics in the Information Technology & Decision Sciences (ITDS) Department, died suddenly on July 6, 2018.  He is survived by this wife and two young children. He worked at the University of North Texas (UNT) in the College of Business from 1999 to the present. He was well-liked by his colleagues and students. He was the ITDS Department's Master's Degrees Curriculum Coordinator, Chairman of its Curriculum Committee, and Course Coordinator for DSCI 3710 (a Business Statistics course taken by over 1,500 UNT students annually). He was nationally and internationally respected and well-known in the Operations Research community as a researcher and as an organizer for large annual conferences, including those by Decision Sciences Institute (DSI - decisionsciences.org) and Production and Operations Management Society (POMS - poms.org). He acted as the faculty advisor for the UNT Student Chapter of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS - informs.org). He also served as the Vice President of Finance and was a board member of POMS. He received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Bombay, and a second master's degree and Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati. He will be missed by this colleagues and friends around the world; but most of all, he will be missed by his family https://www.gofundme.com/om-amp-taara039s-educational-fund?pc=&rcid=r01-153128533785-1ca8a208d4704ba5.

"Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own." - Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Leon A. Kappelman, Ph.D.
  Professor of Information Systems
  Chair, Information Technology and Decision Sciences Department
 Director Emeritus, Information Systems Research Center
    College of Business, University of North Texas
    Voice: 940-565-4698   Email: kapp at unt.edu<mailto:kapp at unt.edu>
  Primary Investigator, SIM's Annual IT Trends Study<http://www.simnet.org/?ITTrendsStudy>