Radhika Vidyadhar Kulkarni (born 1956)[1] is a retired Indian and American operations researcher,[2] and the 2022 president of INFORMS.
[3] 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.
[2] She is the 2022 president of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS).
[3] Kulkarni was the 2006 winner of the WORMS Award for the Advancement of Women in OR/MS of INFORMS.
[8][9] Kulkarni married Vidyadhar Kulkarni, another student of operations research at Cornell and later the chair of Statistics and Operations Research at the University of North Carolina.