Suresh P. Sethi

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Suresh P. Sethi
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Alma materCarnegie Mellon University
Washington State University
IIT Bombay
AwardsSIAM Fellow (2009)
IIT Bombay Distinguished Alum (2008)
POMS Fellow (2005)
POMS Wickham-Skinner Best Paper Award (2004)
INFORMS Fellow (2003)
AAAS Fellow (2003)
IEEE Fellow (2001)
New York Academy of Sciences Fellow (1999)
Canadian Operational Research Society Award of Merit (1996)
Royal Society of Canada Fellow (1994)
Scientific career
FieldsOperations Management
Optimal control
InstitutionsUniversity of Texas at Dallas
Doctoral advisorGerald L. Thompson

Suresh P. Sethi is Eugene McDermott Chair Professor of Operations Management and Director of the (C4ISN) at The University of Texas at Dallas.[1] He has contributed significantly in the fields of manufacturing and operations management, finance and economics, marketing, industrial engineering, operations research, and optimal control.[2][3] He is well known for his developments of the Sethi advertising model and DNSS Points, and for his textbook on optimal control.[4]

He has received several prestigious honors and awards for his contributions. Two conferences have been organized in his honor: in Aix en Provence in 2005[5] and at UT Dallas in 2006[6] with Harry M. Markowitz, a 1990 Nobel Laureate in Economics, as the keynote speaker. Also, two books have been edited in his honor.[7][8]

His past and present editorial positions include Departmental Editor of Production and Operations Management, Corresponding Editor of SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, and Associate Editor of Operations Research, M&SOM, and Automatica.

Education[]

Suresh Sethi received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from Carnegie Mellon University and was Post-doctoral Fellow at Stanford University under the supervision of George B. Dantzig. He has B. Tech. with Honors in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, M.S. in Industrial Administration from Carnegie Mellon University, and MBA from Washington State University.[1]

Academic career[]

Sethi is Eugene McDermott Chair Professor of Operations Management and Director of the (C4ISN) at The University of Texas at Dallas. He has also taught at Rice University, University of Toronto, and Carnegie Mellon University. At University of Toronto, he was General Motors Research Professor (1988–92) and Connaught Senior Research Fellow (1984–85).[1]

Honors and awards[]

  • Alumni Achievement Award, Tepper School, Carnegie Mellon University (2015)
  • President, Production and Operations Management Society (2012)
  • Honored by POMS in its journal POM(2011)
  • Charter Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2009)
  • Distinguished Alum of IIT Bombay (2008)
  • Conferences organized in his honor in 2005 and 2006[5][6]
  • Books edited in his honor in 2005 and 2006[7][8]
  • Fellow of Production and Operations Management Society (2005)
  • Wickham-Skinner Best Paper Award at The 2nd World Conference on POM, 15th Annual Production and Operations Management Conference held in Cancun, Mexico (2004)
  • INFORMS Fellow (2003), AAAS Fellow (2003)
  • IEEE Fellow (2002)
  • Outstanding Contribution in Education, Greater Dallas Indo-American Chamber of Commerce (2001)
  • Fellow of the IC² Institute at the University of Texas at Austin (2000)
  • Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences (1999)
  • C.Y. O’Connor Fellow, Curtin University, Perth, Australia (1998)
  • Award of Merit, Canadian Operational Research Society (1996)
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1994)
  • Listed in Canadian Who's Who, Marquis Who's Who in the World and Marquis Who's Who in the America
  • Erdős Number 3: List of people by Erdős number[9][10][11]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c Homepage of Suresh P. Sethi
  2. ^ "Suresh Sethi," Production and Operations Management, 20(6), 2011, xi-xii.
  3. ^ Google Citations.
  4. ^ and Thompson, G.L., Optimal Control Theory: Applications to Management Science and Economics, Second Edition, Springer, 2000. ISBN 0-387-28092-8 and ISBN 0-7923-8608-6. Slides are available at http://www.utdallas.edu/~sethi/OPRE7320presentation.html
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b Optimal Control and Dynamic Games: Workshop in Honor of , Aix en Provence, France, June 2–6, 2005.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b International Conference on Management Sciences: Optimization Models and Applications in Honor of Professor , University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, May 20–22, 2006.
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b M1 Stochastic Processes, Optimization, and Control Theory: Applications in Financial Engineering, Queueing Networks, and Manufacturing Systems: A Volume in Honor of ; Series: International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, Vol. 94, H. Yan, G. Yin, and Q. Zhang (Eds.), Springer, 2006. (360 pages – ISBN 978-0-387-33770-8)
  8. ^ Jump up to: a b Optimal Control and Dynamic Games, Applications in Finance, Management Science and Economics, Series: Advances in Computational Management Science, Vol. 7, C. Deissenberg and R.F. Hartl (Eds.), Springer, Netherlands, 2005. (344 pages – ISBN 978-0-387-25804-1)
  9. ^ Dantzig, G. B.; Sethi, S. P. Linear optimal control problems and generalized linear programs J. Oper. Res. Soc. 32 (1981), no. 6, 467--476
  10. ^ Dantzig, G. B.; Hoffman, A. J.; Hu, T. C. Triangulations (tilings) and certain block triangular matrices Math. Programming 31 (1985), no. 1, 1--14
  11. ^ Erdős, Paul; Fajtlowicz, Siemion; Hoffman, Alan J. Maximum degree in graphs of diameter $2$. Networks 10 (1980), no. 1, 87--90

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