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
Education
Ph.D. (1979) University of Toronto, Department of Industrial Engineering.
Thesis: Approximate Queueing Models of Dynamic Job Shops.
Supervisor: Professor J. A. Buzacott.
M.A.Sc. (1977) University of Toronto, Department of Industrial Engineering.
Thesis: Decompo-sition Approaches in Permutation Scheduling Problems.
Supervisor: Professor J. A. Buzacott.
B.Sc. (1972) University of Sri Lanka, Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Placed first in the class of 1972.
Employment
2009-present: Professor, Department of Management, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
2009-present: Professor Emeritus, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Re¬search, College of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
2011-2015: Director, (DCMME) Dauch Center for the Management of Manufacturing Enterprises
2011-2015: Director, (GSCMI) Global Supply Chain Management Initiative
1993-2009: Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, College of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
1989-2009: Research Associate, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories, Berkeley, CA.
1988-2001: Professor, Manufacturing, Information and Technology, Haas School of Business, Uni-versity of California, Berkeley, CA.
1989-1992: Chairman of Management Science Group, School of Business Administration, Univer-sity of California, Berkeley, CA.
1986-1988: Associate Professor of Management Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
1984-1986: Acting Associate Professor of Management Science, School of Business Administration, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
1982-1984: Associate Professor of Systems and Industrial Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
1979-1982: Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Syracuse Uni-versity, Syracuse, NY.
Board Member of Companies
2006-to date: Member of the Technical Advisory Board, Intermolecular
2009-to date: Member of the Technical Advisory Board, ReelSolar
Consulting
1982: Syracuse Research Incorporate
1984-1986: Bell Canada
1989-1992: Bell Communications Research
1992: Safeway, Inc.
1993: Southern Pacific Railways
1993-2009: Ken Leavy Associates, Instrumentations / Tencor (through KLA-Tencor worked on joint development projects with AMD, IBM, Intel, LSI, Motorola, TI, Toshiba, Fujitsu, TSMC and UMC)