Ph.D. - Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization
Carnegie Mellon University, Graduate School of Industrial Administration - 1997

M.S. - Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization
Carnegie-Mellon University - 1995

M.S. - Mathematics
University of Louisiana, LA - 1993

B.Tech - Computer Science
Birla Institute of Technology and Science - 1991

Optimal Software Reuse in Incremental Software Development: A Transfer Pricing Approach (with Y. Ceran, D. Liu, and V. Mookerjee) Management Science (to appear). forthcoming - Publication

Short-Range Order Processing at Blockbuster (with C. Chung, D. Rajamani, C. Sriskandarajah), Interfaces (to appear). Finalist, INFORMS 2010 Wagner Prize for Excellence in OR Practice forthcoming - Publication

Scheduling a Two-State Flowshop under a Makespan Constraint. With S. Gavirneni and R. Rachamadugu. Mathematical and Computer Modeling. Forthcoming. forthcoming - Publication

Efficient Distribution of Water Between Head-Reach and Tail-End Farms in Developing Countries (with M. Mehrotra, S. Gavirneni, and V. Mookerjee) Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (to appear). forthcoming - Publication

Forecast and Rolling Horizons under Demand Substitution and Production Changeovers: Analysis and Insights (with A. Bardhan, Y. Mu, S. Gavirneni, and S. Sethi) IIE Transactions Vol. 45, 323-340, 2013. 2013 - Publication

Structural Search and Optimization in Social Networks (with Y. Zhu, V. Mookerjee, and C. Sriskandarajah) INFORMS Journal on Computing Vol. 24, No. 4, 611-623, 2012. 2012 - Publication

Balancing Perfectly Periodic Service Schedules: An Application from Recycling and Waste Management (with O. Kazan, C. Sriskandarajah, and K. Stecke) Naval Research Logistics Vol. 59, No. 2, 160-171, 2012. 2012 - Publication

Pricing and Logistics Decisions for a Service Provider in the Cash Supply Chain (with M. Mehrotra, V. Mookerjee, and C. Sriskandarajah) Production and Operations Management Vol. 21, No. 5, 954-974, 2012. 2012 - Publication

Value of Local Cash Reuse: Inventory Models for Medium-Size Depository Institutions under the New Federal Reserve Policy (with Yunxia Zhu and Chelliah Sriskandarajah) Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Vol. 13, No. 4, 508-524, 2011. 2011 - Publication

Productivity Improvement from Using Machine Buffers in Dual-Gripper Cluster Tools (with N. Geismar and C. Sriskandarajah), IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Vol. 8, No. 1, 29-41, 2011. 2011 - Publication

Joint Appointment
University of Texas at Dallas [2006–Present]

Associate Professor (with tenure)
University of Texas at Dallas [2003–Present]

Assistant Professor
University of Texas at Dallas [2000–2003]

Research Staff Member
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY [1999–2000]

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY [1997–1999]

Invited Presentations

• Commonality Problems in Graphs: Applications and Algorithms, Northwestern University, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Science, May 2007 (forthcoming).
• Discrete Forecast Horizons: Analysis and Computation, Tutorial, 18"‘ Annual Conference of the Production and Operations Management Society, Dallas, TX, June 2007 (forthcoming).
• Computing Forecast Horizons: An Integer Programming Approach, Workshop on Mixed Integer Programming, University of Miami, June 2006.
• Throughput Optimization in Robotic Cells, Kenan-Flagler School of Business, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, October 2006.
• Throughput Optimization in Robotic Cells, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, July 2004; Institute of Management, Bangalore, December 2003.
• Computational Methods for Large Scale Integer Programs, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, University of Minnesota, October 2002.
• Scheduling Constant—Travel Time Robotic Cells: Throughput Maximization, POMS Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 2002.
• lnference—Based Sensitivity Analysis for Mixed-Integer/Linear Programming, Department of Industrial and Management Engg., Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 2001.
• Effective Heuristics for Multi-product Shipment Models, INFORMS National Meeting, San Antonio, 2000.
• The Multiple Knapsack Problem with Color Constraints, INFORMS National Meeting, Cincinnati, 1999.
• Non-Standard Methods for Integer Programming Problems, Department of Computer Science, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1998.
• A Class of Hard Small Integer Programs, 6th IPCO conference, Houston, 1998.
• Inference-Based Sensitivity Analysis for Mixed Integer/Linear Programs, International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Laussane, Switzerland, 1997.
• Optimizing Gomory Cuts for Pure and Mixed Integer Programs, INFORMS National Meeting, New Orleans, (1995) and INFORMS National Meeting, Atlanta, 1996.
• OCTANE: A New Heuristic for 0-1 Programs, INFORMS National Meeting, Washington D.C., 1996.
• Combining and Strengthening Gomory Cuts, 4th IPCO conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1995.

Consulting Activities

• IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY. (2000-2002)
• SmartOps, Pittsburgh, PA. (2006—till date)
• Burlington North Santa Fe Railroad (BNSF), Forth Worth, TX (2006—till date)
   

Experience

University of Texas at Dallas

• 2006, Fall. Instructor, "Discrete Models in Operations Research", Doctoral Program, School of Management.
• 2006, Summer. Instructor, "Network FIows", Doctoral Program, School of Management.
• 2006, Summer. Instructor, "Operations Management", MBA Program, School of Management.
• 2006, Spring. Instructor, "Operations Management", MBA Program, School of Management.
• 2005, Fall. Instructor, "Discrete Models in Operations Research", Doctoral Program, School of Management.
• 2005, Spring. Instructor, "Operations Management", MBA Program, School of Management.
• 2004, Fall. Instructor, "Discrete Models in Operations Research", Doctoral Program, School of Management.
• 2004, Fall. Instructor, "Operations Management", Online MBA Program, School of Management.
• 2004, Fall. Instructor, "Logistics and Distribution", Masters Program, School of Management.
• 2004, Summer. Instructor, "Network Flows", Doctoral Program, School of Management.
• 2004, Spring. Instructor, "Introduction to Operations Research", Masters Program, School of Management.
• 2004, Spring. Instructor, "Operations Management Implementations in the Industry", Masters Program, School of Management.
• 2003, Fall. Instructor, "Logistics and Distribution", Masters Program, School of Management.
• 2003, Fall. Instructor, "Discrete Models in Operations Research", Doctoral Program, School of Management.
• 2003, Spring. Instructor, "Netvvork FIows", Doctoral Program, School of Management.
• 2003, Summer. Instructor, "Introduction to Operations Research", Masters Program, School of Management.
• 2003, Spring. Instructor, "Introduction to Operations Research", Masters Program, School of Management.
• 2002, Fall. Instructor, "Discrete Models in Operations Research", Doctoral Program, School of Management.
• 2002, Fall. Instructor, "Discrete Models in Operations Research", Doctoral Program, School of Management.
• 2002, Fall. Instructor, "Introduction to Operations Research", Masters Program, School of Management.
• 2002, Fall. Instructor, "Discrete Models in Operations Research", Doctoral Program, School of Management.
• 2002, Fall. Instructor, "lntroduction to Operations Research", Masters Program, School of Management.
• 2002, Spring. Instructor, "lntroduction to Operations Research", Masters Program, School of Management
• 2001, Fall. Instructor, "lntroduction to Operations Research", Masters Program, School of Management.
• 2001, Fall. Instructor, "Discrete Models in Operations Research", Doctoral Program, School of Management.
• 2001, Spring. Instructor, "Introduction to Operations Research", Masters Program, School of Management.
• 2000, Fall. Instructor, "Discrete Models in Operations Research", Doctoral Program, School of Management.

Carnegie Mellon University

• 1997, Summer. Instructor, “Production and Operations Management", Undergraduate Program, GSIA.
• 1996, Fall. Instructor, "Convex Analysis and Polyhedral Theory", Doctoral Program, GSIA.
• 1995-1997, Teaching assistant for several courses in the MBA and doctoral programs of the Graduate School of Industrial Administration (GSIA).
   

Students

Gokcen Arkali (Management, co-chair) Dengpan Liu (Management, committee member) Shashidhar Gandham (Computer Science, co-chair) Neil Geismar (Management, co-chair) Sanjeewa Naranpanawe (Management, co-chair) Subodha Kumar (Management, committee member)