Sridhar Seshadri is the Toyota Professor of Information, Operations
and Management Science, at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business,
New York University. He received his Bachelor of Technology degree
in 1978 from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India,
his Post Graduate Diploma in Management in 1980 from the Indian
Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India, and his Ph.D. degree
in Management Science in 1993 from the University of California
at Berkeley. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India).
His primary area of expertise is Stochastic Modeling and Optimization
with applications to distribution system, manufacturing system,
and telecommunications system design, database design and finance.
His current research interests are in the areas of risk management
for supply chains and performance measurement, optimization and
control of stochastic service systems.
He serves as an Associate Editor for Naval
Research Logistics and Management Science
and as a senior editor for the Production
and Operations Management Journal. He is the Area Editor
for Inventory, Reliability and Control for Operations Research
Letters. He is
on the editorial board of the International
Journal of Productivity and Quality Management.
Web site: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~sseshadr