Suresh P. Sethi

Suresh P. Sethi is Eugene McDermott Chair of operations management and director of the Center for Intelligent Supply Networks at the University of Texas at Dallas.

His past and present editorial positions include departmental editor of Production and Operations Management, corresponding editor of SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, and associate editor of Operations Research, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and Automatica.

Education
Sethi received his PhD in operations research from Carnegie Mellon University and was a post-doctoral fellow at Stanford University under the supervision of George B. Dantzig. He obtained a BTech with honors in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, an MS in industrial administration from Carnegie Mellon University, and an MBA from Washington State University.

Academic career
Sethi is Eugene McDermott Chair of operations management and director of the Center for Intelligent Supply Networks at The University of Texas at Dallas. He has also taught at Rice University, University of Toronto, and Carnegie Mellon University. At University of Toronto, he was General Motors Research Professor (1988–92) and Connaught Senior Research Fellow (1984–85).

Research Works
He has contributed in the fields of manufacturing and operations management, finance and economics,  marketing, industrial engineering,  operations research, and optimal control. He is known for his developments of the Sethi advertising model and DNSS Points, and for his textbook on optimal control.

Honors and awards
Suresh Sethi has been elected to Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) Fellow in 2005, one of 8 individuals up to that time to be honored with that distinction in the field of Operations Management.

He is the recipient of the 2015 Tepper Alumni Achievement Award

Two conferences have been organized in his honor: in Aix en Provence in 2005 and at UT Dallas in 2006. Also, two books have been edited in his honor.