Saravanan Venkatachalam
Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Saravanan Venkatachalam is a tenure-track assistant professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) department of Wayne State University. He has authored papers in considering uncertainties for strategical and tactical decisions for the applications like UAVs, network planning for electric vehicle charging stations, and air traffic flow management.
Ph.D, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; M.S, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX; B.E, Production Engineering, PSG College of Technology, India; Research interests are in stochastic programming, large scale optimization, and discrete event modeling and simulation; Applications of interest include supply chain management, healthcare, pricing and revenue management, and energy management. Dr. Saran worked in industry for nine years for companies like JDA Software, Hewlett Packard where he had opportunities to develop and implement decision support systems (mathematical and statistical models) in the domains of consumer support, supply chain management, transportation, and pricing and revenue management.