Dr. (Prof.) Sandeep Srivathsan

Associate Professor - Operations

Area of Expertise: Operations Management

Email: [email protected]

Dr. Sandeep Srivathsan is currently an Associate Professor in the area of Operations Management and the Program Director for PGPM Flex. Prior to joining Great Lakes, he has worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Oklahoma State University (OSU), Stillwater, OK, USA, and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore for over four years. He holds MS and PhD degrees in Industrial Engineering and Management from OSU, and a BE degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Madras.

His teaching interest are in the area of operations research, operations management, statistics, supply chain optimization and time series forecasting.

His research interests are in the area of queueing theory, analytical modeling of supply chain networks and after-sales service networks, and air traffic management. He has published in journals like Computers and Industrial Engineering, Computers and Operations Research, IISE Transactions, Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, and Naval Research Logistics.

He has reviewed papers for top journals like Decision Sciences, European Journal of Operational research, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transport Systems, International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Production Research, and Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review.

Research Interests

queueing theory, analytical modeling of supply chain networks and after-sales service networks, and air traffic management

Book chapter(s)

• Srivathsan, S., Kamath, M., (2013), Modeling Production-Inventory Systems, Chapter 20 in Handbook of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Second Edition (Ed. A.B.Badiru), CRC Press, pp. 351-369.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• Desai, J., Lian, G., Srivathsan, S., (2024), “Dynamic Departure Pushback Control at Airports: Part A - Linear Penalty-based Algorithms and Policies,” Naval Research Logistics, 71 (7), pp. 960-975.
• Desai, J., Srivathsan, S., Li, L., Lai, W., Yu, C., (2022) “An Optimization-based Decision Support Tool for Air Cargo Loading,” Computers & Industrial Engineering, 175, 108816 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2022.108816.
• Desai, J., Srivathsan, S., Yu, C., Dong, Z., (2022) “A 0-1 MIP-based Group-and-Release Strategy for Solving the Integrated Runway Scheduling and Taxiway Routing Problem,” Naval Research Logistics, 69 (7), pp. 939-957.
• Viswanathan, P.K., Srivathsan, S., Winston, W.L., (2022) “Multiclass Discriminant Analysis using Ensemble Technique - Case Illustration from the Banking/Financial Industry,” Journal of Emerging Market Finance, 21(1), pp. 92-115.
• Wang, M., Srivathsan, S., Huang, E., Wu, K., (2018), “Job Dispatch Control for Production Lines with Overlapped Time Window Constraints,” IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing, 31 (2), pp. 1-9.
• Srivathsan, S., Kamath, M., (2018), “Understanding the Value of Upstream Inventory Information Sharing in Supply Chain Networks,” Applied Mathematical Modelling, 54, pp. 393-412.
• Wu, K., Srivathsan, S., Shen, Y., (2018), “Three Moment Approximation for the Expected Waiting Time in a GI/G/1 Queue,” IISE Transactions, 50(2), 63-73.
• Srivathsan, S., Viswanathan, S., (2017), “A Queueing-based Optimization Model for Planning Inventory of Refurbished Components in a Service Center,” Computers & Industrial Engineering, 106, pp. 373-385.
• Srivathsan, S., Kamath, M., (2017), “Performance Modeling of a Two-Echelon Supply Chain under different Levels of Upstream Inventory Information Sharing,” Computers & Operations Research, 77, pp. 210-225.
• Zhang, D., Desai, J., Yu, C., Lau, H.Y.K., Srivathsan, S., (2017) “A Time-space Network Flow Approach to Dynamic Repositioning in Bicycle Sharing Systems,” Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 103, pp. 188-207.
• Srivathsan, S., Kamath, M., (2012), “An Analytical Performance Modeling Approach for Supply Chain Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Automation Science & Engineering, 9 (2), pp. 265-275.
• Kamath, M., Srivathsan, S., (2012), “A Comparative Evaluation of Analytical Approximations for Production-Inventory Networks,” Computers & Industrial Engineering, 62, pp. 644-652.

Conference proceedings/Publications

• Desai, J., Lian, G., Srivathsan, S., (2017), “A Hybrid Penalty-based Dynamic Policy for Effective Departure Pushback Control,” in Proceedings of the 2017 Industrial & Systems Engineering Research Conference (ISERC 2017), Pittsburgh, FL, USA.
• Srivathsan, S., Kamath, M., (2012), “Performance Modeling of a Two-Echelon Supply Chain with Inventory Visibility,” in Proceedings of the 2012 Industrial & Systems Engineering Research Conference (ISERC 2012), Orlando, FL, USA.
• Kamath, M., Srivathsan, S., Ingalls, R.G., Shen, G., Pulat, P.S., (2011), “TISCSoft: A Decision Support System for Transportation Infrastructure and Supply Chain System Planning,” in Proceedings of the 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-44), Kauai, HI, USA.
• Srivathsan, S., Krishnamoorthy, A., Kamath, M., Ayodhiramanujan, K., (2004), “Queueing Models for Analyzing Supply Chain Networks,” in Proceedings of the 2004 Industrial Engineering Research Conference (IERC 2004), Houston, TX, USA.

Book Chapters

• Srivathsan, S., (2020), Inventory Management in Multi-Echelon After-Sales Service Networks, Chapter to appear in Pursuing Sustainability: OR/MS Applications in Sustainable Design, Manufacturing, Logistics and Resource Management, Chen, Chialin, Chen, Yihsu, Jayaraman, Vaidyanathan (Eds.), Springer Nature Switzerland AG (Springer International Publishing).
• Srivathsan, S., Kamath, M., (2013), Modeling Production-Inventory Systems, Chapter 20 in Handbook of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Second Edition (Ed. A.B.Badiru), CRC Press, pp. 351-369.