| Uday S. Rao, PhD |
| Associate Professor of Operations Management |
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 Uday Rao is an Associate Professor of Operations Management at the College of Business, University of Cincinnati (UC). He holds a BTech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, and a PhD in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University.
Prior to joining UC, Dr. Rao taught at Carnegie Mellon University (also, the University of British Columbia, and Cornell University). He has consulted with companies such as Lucent Technologies, Caterpillar Inc., and Ford-Visteon.
Dr. Rao's current research interests are in quantitative models for capacity decisions (risk-based strategic planning, tactical resource allocation, and real-time utilization), periodic production systems (cyclic scheduling), remanufacturing, inventory control logistics (under uncertainty), supply chain optimization (design and coordination), telecom network planning (broadband-access), workforce planning, simulation, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Tags, Intelligent Agents, and Patient Flow Analysis. His research publications include journals such as Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Operations Research, OR Letters, Interfaces, and IIE Transactions. Currently, he serves as a senior editor in the Supply Chain area of the Production and Operations Management journal, as deputy editor for INFORMS' Interfaces journal, and is on the editorial board of INFORMS' Manufacturing and Service Operations Management journal.
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| Contact Information |
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| E-mail: |
uday.rao@uc.edu |
Phone: |
(513) 556-7138 |
| Office/Address: |
528 Carl H. Lindner Hall
PO Box 0130
Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0130 |
Fax: |
(513) 556-5499 |
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| Areas of Expertise |
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| General Expertise: |
Operations Managment, Quantitative Analysis |
| Specific Expertise: |
Operations Management, Operations Research, Supply Chain Management |
| Research Interests: |
Manufacturing Systems, Supply Chain Management, Capacity Planning, Inventory Control, Scheduling, Location in Telecom (Fixed-Wireless) Networks, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Patient Flow Analysis |
| Teaching Interests: |
Operations Management, Production Planning, Supply Chain Management, Operations Strategy |
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| Working Papers |
- Identical-Jobs Cyclic Scheduling: Model and Solution Approaches (with Keli Feng and Peter Jackson), August 2004.
- Carvist, Inc.: Automotive Remanufacturing. OM case and teaching notes on strategic capacity expansion analysis (line reconfiguration), tactical plant loading, core reverse logistics, and demand analysis, July 2004
- Replenishment Planning in Discrete-time, Capacitated, Non-stationary, Stochastic Inventory Systems with Ramesh Bollapragada, under 2nd review at IIE Transactions, Aug 2004.
- Competitive Strategy for Multi-attribute Bidding, with Amit Raturi and Lukas Vavarla, Jan 2005
- Evaluating Echelon (R, nT) Policies In Two-Stage Serial, Stochastic Inventory Systems with Keli Feng, Dec 2004
- Demand and Production Management with Uniform Guaranteed Lead Time (with Jay Swaminathan and Jun Zhang), under 2nd review at Production Operations Management (POM), Nov 2004
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| Publications |
- Multi-Product Inventory Problem with Downward Substitution, Setup Costs, and Stochastic Demand (with Jayashankar M. Swaminathan and Jun Zhang), IIE Transactions, 36:59-71, 2004.
- Reconfiguring a Remanufacturing Line at Visteon, Mexico (with S. Kekre, J. Swaminathan, and J. Zhang), Interfaces, 33:30-43, 2003.
- Convexity and Sensitivity Properties of the (R,T) Inventory Control Policy for Stochastic Demand (single-author), Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 5:37-53, 2003.
- Development of a Rapid-Response Supply Chain at Caterpillar (with Alan Scheller-Wolf and Sridhar Tayur), Operations Research, 48:189-204, 2000.
- Single Stage, Resource Allocation and Economic Lot Scheduling on Multiple, Non-Identical Production Lines (with Ramesh Bollapragada), Management Science, 45:889-904, 1999.
- Estimating Performance Measures in Stochastic Cyclic Schedules (with P. L. Jackson), IIE Transactions, 28:929-939, 1996
- Risk-based Integration of Strategic and Tactical Capacity Planning (with Sunder Kekre, Samarth Sarthi, and Jinxin Yi), Annals of Operations Research, 132, 85-108, 2004
- Firefighter Staffing Including Temporary Absences and Wastage with Mike Fry and Mike Magazine, accepted in Operations Research, Dec 2004.
- Budget-constrained, Capacitated Hub Location to Maximize Expected Demand Coverage in Fixed-wireless (Broadband-Access) Telecommunication Networks,
Paper 1, on Worst-case Analysis, with Ramesh Bollapragada and Yanjun Li accepted in INFORMS Journal on Computing, Dec 2004;
Paper 2, on Greedy Heuristics for the Two-phase version, with Ramesh Bollapragada, Jeff Camm, and Joy Wu, to appear in Operations Research Letters, Mar 2005. - Managing Component and End-product Inventories with Uncertainty and Service Level Requirements (with Ramesh Bollapragada, and Jun Zhang),
Paper 1 on Serial Systems in IIE Transactions, 36:73-85, 2004;
Paper 2 on Assembly Systems Management Science, 50, 12, 1729-1743, 2004.
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| Affiliations |
- INFORMS - The Institute of Operations Research & Management Sciences
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| Honors & Achievements |
- Received several merit scholarships and research grants.
- Serves on the Editorial Board, Manufacturing & Service Operations; Senior Editor in the Supply Chain area of the Production Operations Management journal; Deputy Editor of the Interfaces journal; received special recognition for outstanding refereeing in Management Science.
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| Education |
- PhD, Cornell University
- B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology (institute silver medalist)
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