Suresh P. Sethi

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Suresh P. Sethi
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Alma mater Carnegie Mellon University
Washington State University
IIT Bombay
Awards Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Fellow (2009), IIT Bombay Distinguished Alum (2008)
Scientific career
Fields Operations management, optimal control
Institutions University of Texas at Dallas
Doctoral advisor Gerald L. Thompson

Suresh P. Sethi is Eugene McDermott Chair of operations management and director of the Center for Intelligent Supply Networks at the University of Texas at Dallas.He has contributed in the fields of manufacturing [1] and operations management, [2] finance [3] and economics, [4] [5] marketing, [6] industrial engineering, [7] [8] operations research, [9] and optimal control. [10] He is known for his developments of the Sethi advertising model and DNSS Points, and for his textbook on optimal control. [11]

Contents

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, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management , and Automatica .

Education

Sethi received his PhD in operations research from Carnegie Mellon University and was a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University under the supervision of George B. Dantzig. He obtained a BTech with honors in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, an MS in industrial administration from Carnegie Mellon University, and an MBA from Washington State University. [12]

Academic career

Sethi is Eugene McDermott Chair of operations management and director of the Center for Intelligent Supply Networks 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). [12]

Honors and awards

Suresh Sethi has been elected to Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) Fellow in 2005 [13] , one of 8 individuals up to that time to be honored with that distinction in the field of Operations Management.

He is the recipient of the 2015 Tepper Alumni Achievement Award [14]

Two conferences have been organized in his honor: in Aix en Provence in 2005 [15] and at UT Dallas in 2006. [16] Also, two books have been edited in his honor. [17] [18]

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References

  1. ↑ Sethi, Suresh P.; Zhang, Qing (1994). Hierarchical Decision Making in Stochastic Manufacturing Systems. doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-0285-1. ISBN   978-1-4612-6694-5.
  2. ↑ Markovian Demand Inventory Models. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science. Vol. 108. 2010. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-71604-6. ISBN   978-0-387-56563-7.
  3. ↑ Sethi, Suresh P. (1997). Optimal Consumption and Investment with Bankruptcy. doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-6257-3. ISBN   978-1-4613-7871-6.
  4. ↑ Arrow, Kenneth J.; Bensoussan, Alain; Feng, Qi; Sethi, Suresh P. (2007). "Optimal savings and the value of population". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104 (47): 18421–18426. Bibcode:2007PNAS..10418421A. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708030104 . PMC   2141792 . PMID   17984059.
  5. ↑ Boucekkine, Raouf; Hritonenko, Natali; Yatsenko, Yuri, eds. (2013). Optimal Control of Age-structured Populations in Economy, Demography, and the Environment. doi:10.4324/9780203844557. ISBN   9781136920936.
  6. ↑ Sethi, Suresh P. (1983). "Deterministic and stochastic optimization of a dynamic advertising model". Optimal Control Applications and Methods. 4 (2): 179–184. doi:10.1002/oca.4660040207. S2CID   123673289.
  7. ↑ Throughput Optimization in Robotic Cells. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science. Vol. 101. 2007. doi:10.1007/0-387-70988-6. ISBN   978-0-387-70987-1. S2CID   60059332.
  8. ↑ Sethi, Suresh P.; Bogataj, Marija; Ros-Mcdonnell, Lorenzo, eds. (2012). Industrial Engineering: Innovative Networks. doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-2321-7. ISBN   978-1-4471-2320-0.
  9. ↑ Bes, C.; Sethi, S. P. (1988). "Concepts of Forecast and Decision Horizons: Applications to Dynamic Stochastic Optimization Problems". Mathematics of Operations Research. 13 (2): 295–310. doi:10.1287/moor.13.2.295. S2CID   5840100.
  10. ↑ "Suresh P. Sethi". Production and Operations Management. 20 (6): xi–xii. 2011. doi:10.1111/j.1937-5956.2011.01187.x.
  11. ↑ Sethi, S.P. 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.
  12. 1 2 Homepage of Suresh P. Sethi
  13. ↑ UTD Office of Media Relations (2005), UTD’s Dr. Suresh Sethi Is Elected POMS Fellow, Feb. 15, 2005, https://news.utdallas.edu/faculty-staff/utds-dr-suresh-sethi-is-elected-poms-fellow/
  14. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_49vlugiMbs
  15. ↑ Optimal Control and Dynamic Games: Workshop in Honor of Suresh Sethi, Aix en Provence, France, June 2–6, 2005.
  16. ↑ International Conference on Management Sciences: Optimization Models and Applications in Honor of Professor Suresh Sethi, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, May 20–22, 2006.
  17. ↑ M1 Stochastic Processes, Optimization, and Control Theory: Applications in Financial Engineering, Queueing Networks, and Manufacturing Systems: A Volume in Honor of Suresh Sethi; 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)
  18. ↑ 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)
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