Ramesh Bollapragada

Biography

Ramesh Bollapragada was born in India. Having lived in Hyderabad, India for 21 years, he moved to the Unites States in the 90's. Since August 2002, Professor Bollapragada has taught in the Decision Sciences department of the College of Business at San Francisco State University. In a span of 9 years since joining the college of business, he was promoted from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor with tenure, and from Associate Professor to Full Professor. Ramesh received the "Distinguished faculty award for Excellence in Professional Development for the academic year 2013-2014" awarded annually at the University level at San Francisco State. This recognition (Research Professor of the Year across over 1000 full time faculty) is considered to be the equivalent of a "life time achievement award" for outstanding contributions to his profession.From the academic year 2016-2017, Ramesh serves as the Director of Research of Accreditation at the College of Business. In this role, he teams up with the Associate Dean in leading several new research initiatives and the AACSB Accreditation efforts at the College. Over the past fourteen years, Ramesh taught courses for the Executive MBA program, the M.B.A. program, and undergraduate classes in the areas of operations management, supply chain management, business forecasting, managerial decision making using optimization models, total quality systems, computer simulation and managerial statistics. In Summer 2016 and Summer 2014, he served as a Visiting Research Scholar at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, India. In Spring 2017, he was a Visiting Professor in the Engineering school, University of California at Berkeley and taught the Supply Chan Management class for graduate students from Civil, IEOR and Chemical engineering. Further, in Fall 2011, he was a Visiting Professor at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley and taught the Supply Chain Management class taken by the EMBA and MBA students. Prior to joining SF State, Ramesh was a Research Scientist at Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies in Holmdel, NJ for six years, working in the areas of inventory and supply chain management, telecommunications network planning. He has worked for six months in the Manufacturing Research Center at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY as a summer intern in 1994. He also has two years of experience in process automation and control in India. Ramesh has a B.Tech. and M.S. in electrical and electronics engineering from India and a M.S. and Ph.D. in management of manufacturing and automation from the School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. He received fellowship awards for his graduate study at Carnegie Mellon and National Merit Scholarship from High School to master's degree in India. Ramesh has published over 20 journal papers, with over a dozen in Tier A journals. He presented at over 20 international conferences (U.S and Europe) and also served as an invited session chair at the INFORMS annual meetings. In addition, he was invited to give talks on his research at Stanford University, U.C. Berkeley, Google's research group at their Mountain view Headquarters, and the top management institutes in India (ISB-Hyderabad, IIM-Ahmedabad and IIM-Bangalore). His research is published in journals such as Management Science (2 papers), Interfaces (2 papers), INFORMS Journal of Computing (2 papers), IIE Transactions on Scheduling and Logistics (2 papers), Naval Research Logistics (1 paper), Decision Sciences (1 paper), European Journal of Operational Research (1 paper), Transportation Journal (1 paper), Operations Research Letters (1 paper), International Journal of Production Research (2 papers), International Journal of Production Economics (1 paper), Vilkalpa, IIM-Ahmedabad journal (1 paper), Italian OR Society Journal (1 paper), Journal of Mathematical Finance (1 paper). Further, he has over 10 articles at various stages of publication in premier journals. He served as a co-advisor and dissertation committee member of 5 Ph.D. students at Carnegie Mellon, University of Cincinnati, and HEC School of Management, Paris. Further, he served as referee for over fifteen international journals in his career. In addition, he guided over 25 MBA thesis projects in the College of Business. Ramesh's biographic data has been published for eight consecutive years in "Marquis Who is Who in World", Marquis Who is Who in America", "Marquis Who is Who in Science and Engineering", "Manchesters Who is Who" and "Scholar Universe". He has received multiple stock option awards and several management awards from Bell Labs president and vice-president for outstanding contributions to Bell Labs and Lucent business units during his career there. He also has a few patents for his work at Bell Labs. Ramesh was also named Research Professor of the Year for two consecutive years (2005-2006, 2004-2005) by the College of Business for excellence in research across over 100 full time faculty members in the college of business. He was a semi-finalist for the Franz Edelman Award in 2016-17 as well as 2008-2009, finalist for the Wagner Prize in 2003-2004, and his group at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, helped win the INFORMS Prize for the company in 1998. Over the past ten years, Ramesh has been invited to conduct research and teach doctoral courses at top research universities in the U.S. (Carnegie Mellon) and abroad (HEC School of Management, Paris; ISB-Hyderabad, IIM-Ahmedabad, India, Politecnico di Torino, Italy; Helsinki school of Economics, Finland; Cork Constraint Optimization center, Cork, Ireland; University of Nice, Nice, France; Administrative Staff College, Hyderabad, India. Ramesh has professional certifications in Advanced Consulting Skills, SAP Manufacturing Planning and Management, Wireless Networking, Data Networking, and Optical Networking. He is a current member of INFORMS and a past member of IEEE and AAAI. He refereed several papers for Management Science, Operations Research and IEEE. He also organized companywide Operations Research and Operations Management seminar talks in Lucent and research roundtable talks in the College of Business. He served as the chair of JFRC (Junior Faculty Research Consortium) at the College of Business for academic year 2004-2005. Ramesh has served as a member of the HRTP (Hiring, Retention, Tenure and Promotion) committee in the college of business for over 7 years and served as Chair of HRTP for two years. He served on the SFSU Academic Senate (Curriculum Review & Approval Committee) from 2005-2008. He is a faculty advisor for the Indian students Association of SFSU (2005-current), the Indian Graduates Association (2008-current) and the India Dance Organization (2008-current). Ramesh served as the chair of the Faculty Honors and Awards committee (FHAC) at the university level from 2015-2017 and as chair of Undergraduate Curriculum committee at the college level for the academic year 2015-2016. His other interests include traveling (visited 25 countries and 100 cities, on research, teaching and leisure), and Philanthropy (contributes extensively to charitable organizations in U.S. and India). A firm believer that in addition to one's own hard work, someone else is behind a person's success, Ramesh attributes his academic career as well as personal accomplishments in life for the tremendous love, constant support, patience, and dedication of his parents (Rajarao Bollapragada and Managatayaru Dulla Bollapragada). He further thanks all the help and support from his family; his brothers Srinivas, Suresh and Mohan, his wife Dr. Rama, his wonderful daughter Trisha Manorama (Trisha), and son Krishna Rajaram (Krish).

Research Interest

Inventory and Supply Chain Management Economic Lot-sizing and Scheduling Telecommunication Network Planning Application of Operations Research Models Forecasting, Quality, Transportation Models