Dr. Suchi Rajendran is an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and in the Department of Marketing in the Trulaske College of Business at the University of Missouri. She has worked on projects with companies such as Case New Holland and Schneider Electric. She is a recipient of the Richard Wallace Faculty Incentive Grant, Bob Bloss Faculty Enhancement Grant and Winemiller Excellence Award in Data Analytics. She is a Penn State National Science Foundation Center for Health Organization Transformation (NSF CHOT) scholar, Service Enterprise Engineering Fellow and also a recipient of the DAAD-WISE Fellowship of Germany. She is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. Her research interests include health care delivery systems, supply chain optimization, marketing data analytics, multiple criteria decision making and quality assurance.
Dr. Prasad Calyam is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Greg L. Gilliom Professor of Cyber Security, director of the Cyber Education, Research and Infrastructure Center (Mizzou CERI) and a core faculty member in the MU Institute for Data Science & Informatics. Previously, he was a research director at the Ohio Supercomputer Center/Ohio Academic Resources Network at The Ohio State University. He currently directs a research group in the Virtualization, Multimedia and Networking (VIMAN) Lab. His research and development areas of interest include cloud computing, cybersecurity and computer networking. He has published more than 185 papers in various conference and journal venues. As the principal investigator, he has successfully led teams of graduate, undergraduate and postdoctoral fellows in numerous federal-, state- and industry-sponsored research and development projects. His research sponsors include: National Science Foundation (NSF), Department of Energy (DOE), National Security Agency (NSA), Department of State (DOS), Army Research Lab (ARL), VMware, Cisco, Raytheon-BBN, Dell, Verizon, IBM, Huawei, Coulter Foundation, University of Missouri System, Missouri Department of Transportation (MODOT), Internet2, and others. His basic research on multi-domain network measurement and monitoring has been commercialized as ‘Narada Metrics’. He currently serves as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, and previously served as an editor for IEEE Communications Magazine and chair of NSF visioning workshops. He is a Senior IEEE Member.
Dr. Sharan Srinivas is an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the Department of Marketing at the University of Missouri (MU). He is also a core faculty at the MU Institute for Data Science and Informatics, and a visiting faculty at the University of Passau, Germany. Srinivas received his PhD in industrial engineering and operations research from the Pennsylvania State University. Srinivas’ area of specialization is data analytics and operations research with research interests in healthcare operations management, transportation/logistics, smart service systems and supply chain. He has been an investigator on a range of industry, state and federally funded research projects. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed articles in journals, conferences, books, and trade publications. Dr. Srinivas has taught undergraduate, graduate and MBA level courses that include topics pertaining to data analytics, machine learning, simulation, service systems and supply chain optimization. He is also an active member of INFORMS and IISE professional societies, and has served numerous times as a session chair in their annual conferences. Srinivas is a certified six sigma black belt and recipient of multiple awards (INFORMS Koopman prize, INFORMS Data Mining and Decision Analytics Best Paper Finalist, Winemiller Excellence Award, Richard Wallace Faculty Grant, Service Enterprise Engineering Fellowship).
Dr. Derek Anderson is an associate professor in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Missouri, a core faculty member of the MU Institute for Data Science & Informatics, and he directs the Mizzou INformation and Data FUsion Laboratory (MINDFUL). His focus is information fusion and computational intelligence/machine learning/artificial intelligence in the context of signal/image processing and computer vision for remote sensing. Anderson has published more than 190 articles (book chapters, journals, and conference proceedings), and he has helped organize and run multiple domestic and international conferences, special sessions, workshops and tutorials. Anderson has received approximately $29 million to date in funding across 25 research projects.
Dr. Se Woong Lee is an Associate Professor in the Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis (ELPA) Department at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He earned his Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and joined the ELPA department in 2016. Dr. Lee’s research focuses on policy and program evaluation in education, and he teaches graduate courses in education policy analysis. His work has been published in several journals, including Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis and the Journal of Research in Science Teaching. He has served as PI for the American Educational Research Association and the Russell Sage Foundation.
Professor Satya Chakravarthy is a Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Chennai, India. He received his Bachelor of Technology in Aerospace Engineering in 1991 from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, Chennai, India. He then went on to receive his Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA in 1992 and 1995 respectively. He served as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Georgia Tech during 1996-97 and as Visiting Faculty at the Department of Aerospace Engineering at IIT Madras during 1997-98, before permanently joining the latter department in 1998 as Assistant Professor. He is a Professor there since 2009. Professor Chakravarthy’s interests lie in the field of energy and combustion, covering aspects of solid propellants, combustion dynamics, laser diagnostics and spray characterization.
Prof. Satya Chakravarthy is coordinating the National Centre for Combustion Research and Development (NCCRD) established by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, since 2011, and also the Centre of Propulsion Technologies being established with the support of the Defense Research and Development Organization, Government of India. He has over 75 publications in international journals and 230 papers in international/national conferences. He has won the Young Engineer Award from the Indian National Academy of Engineering in 2003, Young Faculty Recognition Award from IIT Madras in 2009, DRDO Academic Excellence Award in 2009, Dalmia-HEMSI-ACHREM Award in High Energy Materials in 2010. He is a member of the editorial board of the Progress in Energy and Combustion Science journal for 2015-18. He also served as a colloquium co-chair on Solid Fuels Combustion at the 37th International Symposium on Combustion at Dublin, Ireland in July 2018.
Dr. Arshinder Kaur is a Professor in the Department of Management Studies at IIT Madras. She has expertise in developing AI-enabled decision analytic models over the past 20 years. She has been working in IIT Madras since July 2008.She did her Ph D from IIT Delhi in the area of Supply Chain Management from Mechanical Engineering Department on topic of Supply Chain Coordination.She has worked in Curtin University, Australia for 1 year in Curtin Business School in 2014 as Senior Lecturer. She has more than 25 publications in reputed international journals like Omega, Journal of Cleaner Production, Int. J. of Production Economics, Production Planning and Control, Computers and Industrial Engineering and Int. J. of Logistics and Systems Management.
Her areas of interests are supply chain contracts, supply chain coordination, sustainable supply chains, strategic sourcing and service operations management. She has conducted many programmes for Industry executives in the area of supplier development, supply chain risk, operations management, supplier selection, operations management, supplier-buyer relationship, outsourcing, forecasting for companies like AREVA, HAL, GMMCO, McKinsey, CTS etc.
