Karthik Ayodhiramanujan
 

Introduction:

Karthik is a graduate student of Industrial Engineering & Management. He is actively involved with research activities related to Operations Research (Transportation and Queueing Theory). He is a member of INFORMS, IIE, and APICS and serves on the editorial board of ORMS-Tomorrow, the INFORMS Students Newsletter. In his free time, he does pencil sketching.

Education:

• Ph. D. (Industrial Engineering), Oklahoma State University, (Exp Dec 2005)
• M. S. (Mechanical Engineering), Oklahoma State University (Aug, 2001)
• B. E. (mechanical Engineering), SV REC, India (June 1998)

Areas of Interest:

• Queuing Theory and Applications.

• Facility Design and Material Handling System Design.
• Transportation and Logistics.

Work Experience:

• Research Associate, CCiMe, Jan 2002 – till date.

• Teaching Assistant, IE&M, Aug 2003 – Dec 2003.

• Research Assistant, Web Handling and Research Center (MAE), Jan 2000 - August 2001.

• Graduate Trainee Engineer, Kirloskar Oil Engines Ltd., India, Jul 1998  - Jun 1999.

Current Research / Projects:

• Thesis: Modeling of freight movement for the State of Oklahoma.

• Project sponsored by Oklahoma Department of Transportation.

• Development of  Decision Support System for economic and policy analysis using public domain databases, by calculating the freight produced, consumed and flow through Oklahoma.

Publications and Presentations:

• Srivathsan, S., Krishnamoorthy, A., Kamath, M., Ayodhiramanujan, K., (2004) “Queueing Models for Analyzing Supply Chain Networks”, Proc. of the 13th Annual Industrial Engineering Research Conf., Houston, TX.

• Pulat, P. S., Shen, G., Kumar, N., Ingalls, R., Kamath, M., Leow, Y. and Ayodhiramanujan, K. (2004), “A Regional Freight Movement Model: Concepts and Formulations”, Proc. of the 13th Annual Industrial Engineering Research Conf., Houston, TX.

Awards / Honors:

• Member of Alpha Phi Mu

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