Dr. Sudhakar Achath
Professor
School of Business
Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre
India
Biography
Dr. Achath has eleven years of experience in industry, and twenty-six years in teaching and doctoral and post-doctoral research in India and abroad. He started his career as a commissioning engineer in industrial automation and process control systems in BHEL Bangalore, in collaboration with Siemens, West Germany, and then moved to an academic career with Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, and the University of Texas at Austin. In 1982, Dr. Achath received two awards in commissioning of steel rolling mills while in BHEL, and in 2009 received the 17th Dewang Mehta Award for best teacher in operations management while at ASB. He is a state and central rank holder in the all-India 1966 entrance examination to Sainik School. He has consulted with Rourkela Steel Plant and Visakhapatnam Steel Project on HR related issues of plant modernization. He is credited with publications in national and international journals, and conference proceedings. Dr. Achath is a member of the Indian Econometric Society, Society of Computational Economics, Operational Research Society of India, and the Statistical Society of Canada. He teaches core and elective courses in operations management and quantitative methods. His other interests include carnatic music and classical jazz.
Research Interest
Operations Management, Computational Economics, Impercise Probabilities, Free Open Source Software
Publications
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Dr. Sudhakar Achath, “Modeling Investment Planning for Thermal Power Generation in India using Optimal Control Methodsâ€, in Annual Meeting 2012 of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS),Phoenix, Arizona, USA, 2012.
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Dr. Sudhakar Achath and Mohammed, A., “MRP and Vendor Rating Practices–A Case Study of HMT Tractors Ltd.â€, in Ninth AIMS International Conference on Management, Foundation for Liberal and Management Education (FLAME), 2012.
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Dr. Sudhakar Achath, “Imprecise Probabilities for Measuring Tracking Error Riskâ€, in 43rd Annual Meeting of the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC), 14-17 June 2015, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada. , 2015.
