Vikram Kilambi is a senior operations research scientist at RAND. He focuses on personnel and resource management in health-care and defense with a current emphasis on materiel readiness and defense industrial base management. He has contributed to various studies on resource and personnel management for the U.S. Department of the Air Force and components of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security including a congressionally-mandated study for the U.S. Army. In health-care, Kilambi is a NIH R01 co-investigator that is examining policies for improving the efficiency and equity of systems used to provide emergency mental health services and allocate solid organs for transplantation in the United States. Kilambi enjoys interdisciplinary work and has published experience with applications of optimization, computer/stochastic simulation, applied probability, decision analysis, and econometrics. He also has published experience in applied microeconomics research, particularly in discrete choice experiments and experimental design. He received a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and the Management Sciences from Northwestern University and a BA/BS in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Chicago.
Previously, Kilambi served as associate research department director for the RAND Department of Engineering and Applied Sciences, where he managed 200 research employees and 150 adjuncts across multiple STEM fields and supports core operations and strategic goals for hiring, retaining, and developing top research talent.
Ph.D. in indust eng & mgmt sciences, Northwestern University; M.S. in indust eng & mgmt sciences, Northwestern University; B.S. in mathematics, University of Chicago; B.A. in economics, University of Chicago
