Fall 2008 Seminar Series

Dr. Ahuja is a Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida, Gainesville, and also the founding President & CEO of Innovative Scheduling Systems, Inc., a company focused on developing cutting-edge decision support systems for large-scale decision problems arising in logistics and transportation. Professor Ahuja has contributed both to theory and applications and his contributions have received highly competitive awards. He is a recipient of (i) Lanchester Prize in 1993 given to the best publication of the year in Operations Research; (ii) Pierskella Award in 2003 given to the best applications of Operations Research and Management Science in Health Applications; and (iii) Daniel H. Wagner Prize in 2006 for Excellence in Operations Research Practice. Professor Ahuja specializes in mathematical modeling, state-of-the-art network optimization techniques, and solving large-scale scheduling problems arising in logistics and transportation. He has developed innovative models and algorithms for several airline scheduling, railroad scheduling, and logistics problems that were previously considered intractable. He has coauthored three books: (i) Network Flows: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications, a widely-used text and reference book in the field of network optimization; (ii) Developing Spreadsheet-Based Decision Support Systems; and (iii) Developing Web-Enabled Decision Support Systems. Professor Ahuja publishes widely and is also an Associate Editor of the three prestigious journals: Operations Research, Transportation Science, and Networks.