Ravindra K. Ahuja
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Dr. Ravindra K. Ahuja is a researcher and academician. He has contributed to the theory and applications of network optimization, and his research papers are widely cited. Ahuja is a co-author of more than 100 research papers and book chapters in the areas of Industrial Engineering
Industrial engineering
Industrial engineering is a branch of engineering dealing with the optimization of complex processes or systems. It is concerned with the development, improvement, implementation and evaluation of integrated systems of people, money, knowledge, information, equipment, energy, materials, analysis...

, Operations Research
Operations research
Operations research is an interdisciplinary mathematical science that focuses on the effective use of technology by organizations...

, and Computer Science
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...

. He is also a co-author of three textbooks and an Associate Editor of three journals: Operations Research
Operations research
Operations research is an interdisciplinary mathematical science that focuses on the effective use of technology by organizations...

, Transportation Science
Transportation Science
Transportation Science is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences . The studies published in the journal apply operations research techniques to problems in the full range of transportation sectors, including air travel, rail...

, and Networks.

Biography

Ahuja is a professor in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at the University of Florida
University of Florida
The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...

, Gainesville, and is President & CEO of Innovative Scheduling, Inc. He obtained his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial and Management Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He has served as a professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, MIT Sloan School of Management
MIT Sloan School of Management
The MIT Sloan School of Management is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts....

, and the Rutgers Business School
Rutgers Business School
Rutgers Business School is the graduate and undergraduate business school tied to the Newark and New Brunswick campuses of Rutgers University. It was founded in 1929.Rutgers Business School offers bachelor, masters, and Ph.D. degrees...

.

Ahuja founded Innovative Scheduling Inc., in 2000, to bring Operations Research
Operations research
Operations research is an interdisciplinary mathematical science that focuses on the effective use of technology by organizations...

 techniques to the field of transportation and scheduling. He has developed models and algorithms for several airline scheduling, railroad scheduling, and logistics problems. These models have now been packaged into interactive web-enabled decision support systems. Innovative Scheduling received seed grants from the NSF (National Science Foundation
National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation is a United States government agency that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National Institutes of Health...

) SBIR Program (Small Business Innovations Research) to build two railroad decision support systems: Railroad Blocking and Train Scheduling. The company began commercializing the systems built through these NSF grants, and invested this revenue to fund the research and development of new decision support systems. The company now has eight decision support systems for various railroad planning and scheduling problems, several in use by US railroads, designed to improve economic efficiency. The company is now diversifying into other modes of transportation, including trucking and package delivery. Innovative Scheduling licenses its current suite of decision support systems, builds custom software applications for clients, and provides consulting services through the use of its decision support systems.

Selected publications

  • R.K. Ahuja, Thomas L. Magnanti
    Thomas L. Magnanti
    Thomas L. Magnanti is an American engineer and Institute Professor and former Dean of the School of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

    , and James B. Orlin
    James B. Orlin
    James Berger Orlin is an American operations researcher, the Edward Pennell Brooks Professor in Management and Professor of Operations Research at the MIT Sloan School of Management....

    (1993). Network Flows: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications. Prentice-Hall, Inc. ISBN 0-13-617549-X.
  • M.M.H. Seref, R.K. Ahuja, and W.L. Winston (2007). Developing Spreadsheet-Based Decision Support Systems. Dynamic Ideas. ISBN 0-9759146-5-0.
  • A.A. Pol and R.K. Ahuja (2007). Developing Web-Enabled Decision Support Systems. Dynamic Ideas ISBN 0-9759146-4-2.


The list of papers authored by Dr. Ahuja is available at his official Web site.

External links

  • http://lemon.cs.elte.hu/trac/lemon
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