Research Areas:
Network and Discrete Optimization; Stochastic Optimization; Mathematical Programming Applications in Telecommunications and Expert Systems Multicriteria Optimization

Academic Positions:
IIM Bangalore: 2000- till date
Visiting Faculty, Krannert Graduate School of Management, Purdue University, USA, 1999-2000
Visiting Faculty, Department of Systems Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, January 2003- June 2003
Visiting Faculty, Information Systems Area, Dupree School of Management, Georgia Tech University, Georgia, USA, January 2007- May 2007
Assistant Professor, Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences, Louisina State University, Baton Rouge, USA, August 1987- May 1993
Associate Professor, Department of Information Systems and Decision Sciences, Louisina State University, Baton Rouge, USA, May 1993- May 1999
Visiting Faculty, Production and Quantitative Methods, IIM Ahmedabad, India, 1996- 1997
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Texas A & M University, USA, 1983- 1987

Significant Publications:
1. "Empowering Managers to Think with Spreadsheets," IIMB Management Review, Vol 16, 2, June (2004), 85-96

2. "Bicriterion Distribution Planning for Agricultural Power Fuels," (with D. Olson, A. Ross and M.A. Venkataramanan), INFOR, Vol 39, 1, (2001), 4-16

3. "A Dual Ascent Procedure to Solve the File Allocation and Join Site Selection Problem in Telecommunications Networks," (with P. Seo) Networks, Vol 3, 2, (1999), 109-124

4. "Stochastic Shortest Path Problems with Piecewise-Linear Concave Utility Functions," (with S. Sarkar) Management Science, Vol. 44, 11, (1998), 125-136

5. "A Dual Ascent Procedure with Valid Inequalities for Designing Hierarchical Network Topologies," (with S. Mitra) INFORMS Journal on Computing, Vol. 10, 1, (1998), 40-55

6. "Sudarshan-Wheels Motors," Product#00-053, C-DoCTA (Centre for Development Cases and Teaching Aids) IIM-Bangalore, December 2000

7. "Revenue Management at Hoysala Airlines", Product#01-073, C-DoCTA (Centre for Development Cases and Teaching Aids) IIM-Bangalore, August 2001

8. "A Dual Ascent Procedure for ATM Network Design for Client-Server Architectures," (with S. Narasimhan), submitted to Operations Research. (under second revision)

9. "Sequential Grid Computing: Models and Computational Experiments," (with Sam Ransbotham, Saby Mitra and S. Narasimhan), submitted to INFORMS Journal on Computing. (under first revision)