Uday Rao
Associate Professor of Operations Management, Department of Quantitative Analysis and Operations Management (QAOM)Professional Summary
B.Tech, Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay
Ph.D., Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Cornell University
Worked at Cornell University, University of British Columbia, Carnegie Mellon University before University of Cincinnati
Consulting projects with Bell Laboratories, Ford-Visteon, Caterpillar Inc., RFID Solutions Center, Cincinnati Fire Department, Cincinnati Children's Hospital.
Contact Information
Phone:
513-556-7138
Fax:
513-556-5499
Teaching Interest
- Developed & taught courses at undergraduate and graduate levels in Statistics, Calculus, Quantitative Methods, Simulation, Production Planning and Scheduling, Inventory Control, Quality Analysis, Manufacturing Systems, Operations Management, Manufacturing Strategy, Global Operations (via experiential learning), Supply Chain Management & International Operations (Executive Education / China program modules), and research seminar courses in Manufacturing Operations, Stochastic Programming, Game Theory, Logic Constrained Programming, Dynamic Programming / Markov Decision Processes, and Revenue Management.
Research Interest
- Supply Chain Management under Uncertainty
- Cyclic Scheduling for Repetitive Manufacturing
- Advanced Resource Planning
- Long & Short Term Capacity Analysis
- Stochastic Inventory Systems
- Simulation-Based Optimization
- Reconfiguration for Remanufacturing
- Hub Location for Fixed Wireless Telecom
- Workforce Staffing, Cross-training
- Intelligent Software Agents
- New Products (RFID tags, Pharmaceuticals)
- Healthcare Delivery Operations (Automatic Dispensing Machines & Inventory, Emergency Department - OR dedication to Electives/Emergencies, team-to-patient assignment, Scheduling ER Physicians)
Organization:
CoB, University of Cincinnati (UC), Cincinnati, OH.
Title:
Associate Professor
Organization:
GSIA, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Pittsburgh, PA
Title:
Assistant Professor
End Date:
2001-09-30
Organization:
SORIE, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
Title:
Visiting Assistant Professor
End Date:
1994-08-31
Organization:
Faculty of Commerce (now Sauder School of Business),University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Title:
Visiting Assistant Professor
End Date:
1993-04-30
Organization:
TELCO, Pune, India
Title:
Engineering Intern
End Date:
1987-08-31
Description
Academic Director, MSQA Program
Processing applications -- admission and aid decisions
Advice students -- courses, jobs
Dates:
2007-08-06
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2009-09-06
Organization:
Alien Technology
Name:
RFID Rapid Adoption Initiative
Year Received:
2007
Organization:
College of Business, UC
Name:
Three-year CoB Research Fellow Award
Year Received:
2005
Organization:
National Science Foundation
Name:
NSF Grant
Year Received:
2001
Organization:
Ford-Visteon
Name:
Ford-Visteon Contract
Year Received:
2000
Organization:
Management Science
Name:
Distinguished Service Recognition as a Reviewer
Year Received:
1996
Major:
Manufacturing Systems
Completed:
1992
Degree:
Ph D
Organization:
Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, SORIE, Cornell University
Major:
Manufacturing Systems
Completed:
1990
Degree:
MS
Organization:
Indian Institute of Technology
Location:
Bombay, India
Major:
Mechanical Engineering
Completed:
1987
Degree:
BS
Published Contributions
Title:
Building Cyclic Schedules for Emergency Department Physicians
Page(s):
521-533
Author(s):
Magazine, Michael
Ferrand, Yann
Rao, Uday
Ferrand, Yann
Rao, Uday
Year Published:
2011
Publisher:
Interfaces
Title:
Setting Planned Orders in Master Production Scheduling under Demand Uncertainty
Page(s):
4007-4025
Author(s):
Feng, Keli
Rao, Uday
Raturi, Amit
Rao, Uday
Raturi, Amit
Year Published:
2011
Publisher:
International Journal of Production Research
Publicly available:
Yes
Title:
Evaluating Periodic Review Echelon (R,nT) Policies in Two-stage Stochastic Serial Inventory Systems
Page(s):
95-104
Author(s):
Rao, Uday
Feng, K.
Feng, K.
Year Published:
2007
Publisher:
Operations Research Letters
Title:
Identical-Jobs Cyclic Scheduling: Model and Solution Approaches
Author(s):
Rao, Uday
Feng , K.
Jackson, P.
Feng , K.
Jackson, P.
Year Published:
2007
Publisher:
Journal of Academy of Business and Economics
Publicly available:
Yes
Title:
Budget-constrained, Capacitated Hub Location to Maximize Expected Demand Coverage in Fixed-wireless Telecom Networks
Page(s):
422-432
Author(s):
Rao, Uday
Bollapragada , R.
Li, Y.
Bollapragada , R.
Li, Y.
Year Published:
2006
Publisher:
INFORMS Journal of Computing
Title:
Firefighter Staffing with Temporary Absences and Wastage
Page(s):
353-365
Author(s):
Fry, Michael
Magazine, Michael
Rao, Uday
Magazine, Michael
Rao, Uday
Year Published:
2006
Publisher:
Operations Research
Title:
Replenishment Planning in Discrete Time, Capacitated, Non-stationary Inventory Systems with Demand and Supply Uncertainty
Page(s):
605-617
Author(s):
Rao, Uday
Bollapragada, R.
Bollapragada, R.
Year Published:
2006
Publisher:
IIE Transactions
Title:
Analysis of Buyer-Seller Contracting under Supply Capacity Uncertainty
Author(s):
Rao, Uday
Bollapragada, R.
Gurnani, H.
Bollapragada, R.
Gurnani, H.
Year Published:
2006
Title:
Maintenance Scheduling of Optic-Fiber Networks
Author(s):
Rao, Uday
Bollapragada , R.
Ozluk, O.
Bollapragada , R.
Ozluk, O.
Year Published:
2006
Title:
Two-stage Greedy Hub Location-Allocation for Fixed-wireless Broadband-access
Page(s):
134-142
Author(s):
Camm, Jeff
Bollapragada, R
Rao, Uday
Wu, J
Bollapragada, R
Rao, Uday
Wu, J
Year Published:
2005
Publisher:
Operations Research Letters
Title:
Demand and Production Management with Uniform Guaranteed Lead Time
Author(s):
Rao, Uday
Swaminathan , J.
Zhang, J.
Swaminathan , J.
Zhang, J.
Year Published:
2005
Publisher:
Production and Operations Management
Research in progress
Title:
2-bin inventory systems
Status:
On-Going
Research Type:
Scholarly
Title:
Capacity Utilization in ED Department
Status:
Writing Results
Research Type:
Scholarly
Title:
Impact of Random Supplier Capacity and Wholesale / Retail Pricing on Equilibrium in Decentralized Supply Chains
Status:
On-Going
Research Type:
Scholarly
Title:
Modeling the Electric Vehicle Supply Chain
Status:
On-Going
Research Type:
Scholarly
Title:
Retailer Transshipment versus Central Depot Allocation for Supply Network Design
Description:
Submitted to Decision Sciences
Status:
Writing Results
Research Type:
Scholarly
Title:
Surgical Room Assignments
Status:
Writing Results
Research Type:
Scholarly
Title:
Technology Enabled Hybrid Inventory Control Policies in Hospitals
Description:
The purpose of this research is to analyze a new hybrid inventory policy used by
hospitals as new technology becomes available to increase inventory visibility. This
increased visibility offers a new range of possibilities for material handling and control.
We seek to offer practical and efficient operational policies that are applicable
to the health care sector and other environments where increased visibility enables
the use of new operational policies.
Status:
On-Going
Research Type:
Scholarly
Title:
Telecom Hub-Concentrator Location in Combined Wireline and Wireless Networks
Description:
Models the capacitated hub location problem in combined wireline and wireless networks; proposes and tests a greedy solution heuristic; conducts numerical experiments to study the impact of problem parameters.
Status:
Writing Results
Research Type:
Scholarly
Title:
Two item joint and hybrid policies
Status:
Writing Results
Research Type:
Scholarly
Title:
Managing Hospital Supplies
Year:
2011
Title:
Random Capacity Risk in Decentralized and Competitive Supply Chain
Organization:
INFORMS
Location:
Charlotte, NC
Year:
2011
Title:
Increasing Patient Throughput at an Outpatient Clinic with Two Classes of Patients and Two Types of Providers
Year:
2011
Title:
Who Should Emergency Physicians see next
Year:
2010
Title:
New Inventory Policies in Health Care
Year:
2010
Title:
Improving Patient Flow Through Shared Workload at an Outpatient Clinic
Location:
San Diego, CA
Year:
2010
Title:
Building Cyclic Schedules for ED
Organization:
INFORMS
Location:
San Diego
Year:
2009
Title:
New Inventory Policies in Healthcare
Organization:
INFORMS
Location:
San Diego,CA
Year:
2009
Title:
Demand Variability Impact in an Inventory System with Transshipments
Organization:
INFORMS
Location:
San Francisco, CA, USA
Year:
2005
Title:
Firefighter Staffing with Overtime, Attrition, and Random Absenteeism
Location:
Carnegie Mellon University/University of Pittsburgh
Year:
2004
Title:
Firefighter Staffing with Overtime, Attrition, and Random Absenteeism
Location:
University of Cincinnati
Year:
2003
Title:
Firefighter Staffing with Overtime, Attrition, and Random Absenteeism
Location:
Savannah, GA
Year:
2003
