Specialties

Positions Held

At the University of Washington since 2001
Research Scientist at FSI International, Texas (2000-2001)

Selected Publications

• "Optimal Allocation of Effort to Software Maintenance: A Queuing Theory Approach," with V.G. Kulkarni, V.S. Mookerjee, and S.P. Sethi, Production and Operations Management, forthcoming.
  
  
• "Short-Term and Long-Term Competition between Providers of Shrink-Wrap Software and Software as a Service," with M. Fan and A.B. Whinston, European Journal of Operational Research, forthcoming.
  
  
• "Maximizing Business Value by Optimal Assignment of Jobs to Resources in Grid Computing," with K. Dutta and V.S. Mookerjee, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 194, No. 3, May 2009, pp. 856-872.
  
  
• "Dynamic Pricing and Advertising for Web Content Providers," with S.P. Sethi, European Journal of Operational Research, forthcoming.
  
  
• "A Comparison of Pair versus Solo Programming under Different Objectives: An Analytical Approach," with M. Dawande, M. Johar, and V.S. Mookerjee, Information Systems Research, Volume 19, Number 1, March 2008, pp. 71-92.
  
  
• "Maximum Commonality Problems: Applications and Analysis," with M. Dawande, V.S. Mookerjee, and C. Sriskandarajah, Management Science, Vol. 54, No. 1, January 2008, pp. 194-207.
  
  
• "Selling or Advertising: Strategies of Providing Digital Media Online," with M. Fan and A.B. Whinston, Journal of Management Information Systems, Vol. 24, No. 3, Winter 2007-08, pp. 143-166.
  
  
• "Optimal Scheduling and Placement of Internet Banner Advertisements," with M. Dawande and V.S. Mookerjee, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Featured Article, Vol. 19, No. 11, November 2007, pp. 1571-1584.
  
  
• "Scheduling Advertisements on a Web Page to Maximize Revenue," with V.S. Jacob and C. Sriskandarajah, European Journal of Operational Research, Vol. 137, Issue 3, September 2006, pp. 1067-1089.
  
  
• "Minimizing Cycle Time in Large Robotic Cells," with N. Ramanan and C. Sriskandarajah, IIE Transactions, Vol. 37, No. 2, February 2005, pp. 123-136.
  
  
• "Scheduling Web Advertisements: A Note on the MINSPACE Problem," with M. Dawande and C. Sriskandarajah, Journal of Scheduling, Vol. 8, Issue 1, 2005, pp. 97-106.
  
  
• "Performance Bounds of Algorithms for Scheduling Advertisements on a Web Page," with M. Dawande and C. Sriskandarajah, Journal of Scheduling, Vol. 6, Issue 4, July-August 2003, pp. 373-394.
  
  
• "Lot Streaming and Scheduling Heuristics for m-Machine No-Wait Flowshops," with T.P. Bagchi and C. Sriskandarajah, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Vol. 38, Issue 1, 2000, pp. 149-172.
  
  

Cases

• "Information Technology Based Innovation at Alaska Airlines," with R.L. Nolan, Harvard Business School Case, 2007.
  
  
• "Information Technology Based Innovation at Alaska Airlines (TN)," with R.L. Nolan, Harvard Business School Teaching Note, 2007.
  
  
• "Esterline Technologies: Lean Manufacturing," with R.L. Nolan and K.A. Brown, Harvard Business School Case 906-417, May 3, 2006.
  
  
• "Esterline Technologies: Lean Manufacturing (TN)," with R.L. Nolan and K.A. Brown, Harvard Business School Teaching Note 907-401, July 10, 2006.
  
  

Patent

• "Robotic System Control", with N. Ramanan and C. Sriskandarajah, United States Patent # 6,556,893, Approved on April 29, 2003.

Current Research

Measuring the cost of data quality
Scheduling advertisements on web pages dynamically using the clicking effect
Optimizing the rotation of developers in Extreme Programming
Scheduling the move sequence of robots in robotic cells
Optimizing multiple objectives in cluster analysis
Optimizing the differential pricing policy for web services using optimal control theroy
Scheduling resources in grid computing network
Designing intelligent bidding system for web auction

Honors and Awards

Undergraduate Professor of the Quarter for Information Systems and Operations Management for Autumn (2008)
Faculty Case Award for "Information Technology Based Innovation at Alaska Airlines" (2007)
Nominated for the Undergraduate Business Instructor of the Quarter Award. (2007)
Featured on the University of Washington Television for a panel discussion tiled "What Are the Key Dimensions and Issues of Team Level Innovation?" (2007)
Faculty Case Award for the case titled "Esterline Technologies: Lean Manufacturing." (2006)
Nominated for the Best Instructor Award by UW Alumni Association. (2005)
Featured in Industrial Engineer magazine, p. 48 (February 2005)
Best paper nomination of two papers in 13th Annual Workshop On Information Technologies

and Systems (WITS), Seattle, WA (December 2003)

Semifinalist in Informs Franz Edelman Award Competition (2002 and 2003)
Listed in Marquis Who's Who in America (2003)
Listed in Academic Keys Who's Who in Business Higher Education (WWBHE) (2003)
Selden Leavell Merit Based Scholarship at the University of Texas at Dallas (2000-01)
Informs Doctoral Colloquium (2000)
University of Toronto Doctoral Fellowship (1998-99)

Academic Service

Editorial Service:

Senior Editor, Production and Operations Management Journal (2007 - Present)
Member of Editorial Review Board, Journal of Database Management (2004 - Present)
Member of Editorial Review Board, Production and Operations Management Journal (2003 - 2007)


Session Chair:

Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST), Seattle, November 2007

Informs Annual Meeting, Seattle, November 2007

15th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), Las Vegas, December

2005


CORS / INFORMS Joint International Meeting, Banff, Alberta, Canada, May 2004

13th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), Seattle, 2003


Program Committee Member:

Third International Conference on Information Systems, Technology and Management

(ICISTM), Delhi, India, 2009

18th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), Paris, 2008

Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST), Washington DC, 2008

Second International Conference on Information Systems, Technology and Management

(ICISTM), Dubai, UAE, 2008


17th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), Montreal, 2007

16th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), Milwaukee, 2006

15th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), Las Vegas, 2005

14th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), Washington DC, 2004

13th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS), Seattle, 2003