Richard E. Dauch Chair of Manufacturing and Operations Management and Distinguished Professor of Management
Phone: (765) 494-4468
Office: Rawls 4007, 100 S. Grant Street
Email: shanthikumar@purdue.edu
Awards
1972: Dr. C.A. Hewavitarne Prize in Engineering for the highest GPA in the final Part III (senior year) examination in Engineering, November 1972.
1972: E.O.E. Pereira Gold Medal for the outstanding student graduating from the Faculty of Engineering, University of Sri Lanka.
1975-1979: Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship for M.A.Sc., and Ph.D.
1980: Outstanding Young Man of America award.
1987-1988: Schwabacher Fellowship.
1993 ORSA Lanchester Prize for the best publication in Operations Research: runner-up for the book Stochastic Models of Manufacturing Systems, co-authored with J. A. Buzacott. was given an Honorable Mention.
1997-1998: Alpha Pi Mu Faculty of the Year Award
2000-2001: KLA-Tencor General Managers Award for the Best Team Project
2000-2001: Alpha Pi Mu Faculty of the Year Award
2002-2003: Alpha Pi Mu Faculty of the Year Award
2003-2004: Alpha Pi Mu Faculty of the Year Award
2014: Fellow, Production and Operations Management Society (POMS0
2014: Fellow, INstitute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS)
2018: POMS Wickham Skinner Best Paper Award
Grants
1980: (Summer) Supported under contract No. F30602-77-C-0235 with Rome Air Development Center, Rome, NY.
1980: (Summer) Supported under contract No. F30602-77-C-0235 with Rome Air Development Center, Rome, NY. 1981: (summer) Supported by Syracuse University Senate Research Fund.
1981-1982: New York State Science and Technology Foundation Grant.
1983: (summer) Supported by the University of Arizona, Engineering Experimentation Station Fund.
1984: (summer) Supported by a Bell Core Research Grant. 1984-1990: Co-Principal Investigator, Air Force Office of Scientific Research Grant. Grant number AFOSR-84-0205.
1986-1987: Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Grant. Grant number ECS¬8601210.
1988-1991: Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Grant. Grant number ECS¬ 8811234.
1989: (summer) Information Science Foundation of Japan Grant.
1990: (summer) Supported by the Sloan Foundation Grant for ‘Consortium for Competitiveness and Cooperation’.
1990-1993: Co-Principal Investigator, Air Force Office of Scientific Research Grant. Grant number AFOSR-90201.
1991-1998: (Participant) Sloan Foundation Grant for ‘Study on Competitive Semiconductor Man-ufacturing’.
1991-1994: Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Grant. Grant Number DDM-9113008.
1993-1996: Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Grant. Grant Number DMS¬ 9308149.
1994-1996: Co-Principal Investigator, Semiconductor Research Corporation Grant for Advances in Factory Logistics and Yield Management.
1999-2001: Principal Investigator, KLA-Tencor Corporation Grant for Semiconductor Yield Management.
1999-2001: Co-Principal Investigator, KLA-Tencor Corporation Grant for Fabless-Foundry Part-nership in Semiconductor Manufacturing.
2004-2005: Co-Principal Investigator, National Science Foundation Grant. Grant number DMI-0434826.
2004-2005: Principal Investigator, KLA-Tencor Corporation Grant for Semiconductor Yield Management
2005-2006: Principal Investigator, KLA-Tencor Corporation Grant for Semiconductor Yield Management.
2005-2008: Co-Principal Investigator (with Andrew Lim), National Science Foundation Grant. Grant number DMI-0500503.
2006-2008: Principal Investigator, Intel Grant for Cycle Time Reduction in Semiconductor Fabri-cation Facilities.
2008-2009: Co-Principal Investigator, Sustainable Products & Solutions Program Grant for Im-proved Stoves for Health and Environmental Sustainability.
2008-2009: Co-Principal Investigator (with Andrew Lim), Coleman Fung Risk Management Center Research Grant for Fragility of Risk Measures and Other Computed Metrics.
2010-2013: Co-Principal Investigator (with Andrew Lim and Max Shen), National Science Foundation Grant. Grant Number CMMI-1031637, Coordinating Multiple Decision Makers in a Service Environment.
2012-2015: Co-Principal Investigator (with Andrew Lim), National Science Foundation Grant. Grant number CMMI-1201085, Stochastic Optimization with Model Uncertainty and Learning.
2013-2015: Co-Principal Investigator (with Qi Feng), Purdue OVRP Grant