Prahalad Venkateshan

Area

Primary Area : Operations and Decision Sciences

Secondary Area : Finance and Accounting

Contact

Email : prahalad@iima.ac.in

Phone : +91-79-7152 4894

Secretary : Viddhi Kotak

Phone : +91-79-7152 7901

Website : Personal Website

Education

Bachelor of Engineering, College of Engineering, Guindy, India., 2000

Post Graduate Diploma in Management, Indian Institute of Management, 2002

PhD, Operations Research, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA, 2007

Teaching

Operations Management (MBA core)

Introduction to Probability & Statistics (MBA/undergraduate level)

Manufacturing Operations Management (MBA elective)

Asset-Backed Securitization (MBA elective)

Optimization Methods in Finance (MBA elective)

Seminar in Operatons Management (PhD level core)

Convexity & Optimization (PhD level elective)

Research Area

Vehicle Routing

Facility Location

Network Design

Mathematical Programming

Academic Experience

Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2009

Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014

Visiting Associate Professor, eatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, USA., 2017

Professional Experience

Senior Financial Analyst,, Capital Markets, AmTrust Bank, Cleveland, USA., Aug 2006 - Nov 2009

Selected Publications

Modelling driver's reactive strategies in e-hailing platforms: an agent-based simulation model and an approximate analytical model - with Arulanantha Maruthasalam and Debjit Roy. International Journal of Production Research. To appear.

A Note on "The Facility Location Problem with Limited Distances". Transportation Science. To appear. (Click here for a C++ code implementing the key enumeration of the paper.)

New valid inequalities for the symmetric vehicle routing problem with simultaneous pickup and deliveries - with Yogesh Agarwal. Networks. 2021.

A Cutting Plane Approach for the Multi-Machine Precedence-Constrained Scheduling Problem - with Joseph Szmerekovsky and George Vairaktarakis. Annals of Operations Research. 2020. (Click here for data files related to this paper.)

A New Model for the Asymmetric Vehicle Routing Problem with Simultaneous Pickup and Deliveries - with Yogesh Agarwal. Operations Research Letters. 2020. (Click here for data files related to this paper.)

New Valid Inequalities for the Optimal Communication Spanning Tree Problem - with Yogesh Agarwal. Informs Journal on Computing. 2019. (Click here for data files related to this paper.)

A Two-Echelon Joint Continuous-Discrete Location Model - with Ronald Ballou, Kamlesh Mathur, Arulanantha Maruthasalam. European Journal of Operational Research. 2017.

Near Optimal Design of Wavelength Routed Optical Networks - with Yogesh Agarwal. European Journal of Operational Research. 2016.

The Discrete Time-Cost Tradeoff Problem with Irregular Starting Time Costs - with Joseph Szmerekovsky. Handbook on Project Management and Scheduling. Springer International Publishing. 2015.

A Heuristic for the Multisource Weber Problem with Service Level Constraints - with Kamlesh Mathur. Transportation Science. 2015.

Survivable Network Design with Shared-Protection Routing - with Yogesh Agarwal. European Journal of Operational Research. 2014.

An Integer Programming Formulation for the Project Scheduling Problem with Irregular Time-Cost Tradeoffs - with Joseph Szmerekovsky. Computers & Operations Research. 2012.

An Efficient Column-Generation-Based Algorithm for Solving a Pickup-and-Delivery Problem - with Kamlesh Mathur. Computers & Operations Research. 2011.

Locating and Staffing Service Centers under Service Level Constraints - with Ronald Ballou and Kamlesh Mathur. European Journal of Operational Research. 2010.

An Efficient Generalized Network-Simplex-Based Algorithm for Manufacturing Network Flows - with Ronald Ballou and Kamlesh Mathur. Journal of Combinatorial Optimization. 2008.

A New Lower Bound for the Linear Knapsack Problem with General Integer Variables - with Kamlesh Mathur. European Journal of Operational Research. 2007

Consulting

New York Community Bank, Cleveland, USA: Jan 2017 - June 2017. Design of methods for interest rate risk management in mortgage origination process.

Faculty & Research

Prahalad Venkateshan