Hossein Rikhtehgar Berenji is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management in the College of Business, Pacific University. He earned his Ph.D. in Operations & Business Analytics and his Master of Science in Decision Sciences from the Lundquist College of Business at the University of Oregon.

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Hossein’s research interests fall broadly in supply chain management and data analytics with applications in sustainability, healthcare, and humanitarian operations and crisis Management. He has received the “Best Problem-Driven Analytical Research Paper” award twice from the Decision Sciences Institute for his research on “contracting for social & environmental responsibility” and “vaccine development at the pandemic speed”. Hossein has also received the “Junior Faculty Award” from the Western Decision Sciences Institute. His dissertation has been selected as a finalist for the Ellwood Buffa Doctoral Dissertation Award Competition by the Decision Sciences Institute. He has also been selected as a Paul R. Lawrence Fellow by the Case Research Foundation.

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Hossein has taught Operations Management, Business Analytics, and Supply Chain Management. As a sole instructor, he received three teaching awards, two at the college-level (Robin & Roger Best Teaching Award) and the other at the university-level (Kimble Teaching Award) at the Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon.

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Hossein has been involved in professional societies and contributed to the organization of several conferences. He has also served the Production & Operations Management Society (POMS) as Vice President of Colleges and as a member of the POMS conference program committee.

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Prior to his Ph.D. program, Hossein worked as a senior industrial consultant in Pars Consultants Group and taught executive programs in private institutions and colleges. He also holds a Master of Business Administration from Sharif University and a B.S in Industrial Engineering.​