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Innovative Scheduling is proud of its team which is comprised of highly talented and well-educated professionals. The team includes over 35 professionals most of whom hold advanced degrees in Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, Business, or Computer Science, and the majority have Ph.D.s. We have strong ties to academia and bring state-of-the-art techniques in Operations Research and Computer Science to the field of transportation, logistics, and scheduling. We give below brief resumes of company's senior executives.
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Ravindra K. Ahuja
President & CEO |
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(352) 334-7283, Ext. 315 |
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(352) 870-8401 |
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Dr. Ravindra K. Ahuja, the founding President & CEO of Innovative Scheduling, is a world-renowned researcher and academician. He has served as a Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, Sloan School of Management at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Business School at Rutgers University. He is currently a Professor in the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at the University of Florida, Gainesville. During his academic career, he developed innovative models and algorithms for several airline scheduling, railroad scheduling, and logistics problems that were previously considered intractable. These models have now been packaged into web-based decision support systems.
Professor Ahuja has contributed both to the theory and applications of optimization and his contributions have received highly competitive awards. He is a recipient of (i) Lanchester Prize in 1993 given to the best publication of the year in Operations Research; (ii) Pierskella Award in 2003 given to the best applications of Operations Research and Management Science in Health Applications; (iii) Wagner Prize in 2006 for Excellence in Operations Research Practice; and (iv) Koopman Prize in 2007 given to the best contribution to Military Operations Research. He became an INFORMS Fellow in 2008.
Ravi is a co-author of three textbooks: (i) "Network Flows: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications," which is a leading text and reference book in the field of network optimization and is used world-wide by researchers and practitioners; (ii) "Developing Spreadsheet-Based Decision Support Systems;" and (iii) "Developing Web-Enabled Decision Support Systems." Ravi publishes widely and is a co-author of more than 90 research papers and book chapters in the areas of Operations Research and Computer Science.
He is also an Associate Editor of three prestigious journals: Operations Research, Transportation Science, and Networks.
To download his short resume, please click here. To download his full resume, please click here.
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Krishna C. Jha
Vice President - Research & Development |
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(352) 334-7283, Ext. 317 |
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(352) 281-6834 |
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Dr. Krishna Jha is Vice President of Research & Development at Innovative Scheduling. He earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Bihar Institute of Technology, Sindri, India, his M.S. in Industrial and Management Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, and his Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville. His Ph.D. dissertation involved cutting-edge research on Very Large-Scale Neighborhood Search, a powerful and robust technique for solving complex decision problems. Krishna's strengths center on efficiently solving highly constrained combinatorial optimization problems. Krishna is an expert in network optimization and heuristic techniques. He has a successful track record of designing and deploying products that are tailored to customers' needs. Customers appreciate his attention to detail, his adherence for project budgets, and his success in meeting deadlines.
Krishna has been working at Innovative Scheduling since its inception and has led the design and implementation of several decision support systems, including the train scheduling optimizer, the crew scheduling optimizer and yard simulation system. Prior to joining Innovative Scheduling, he worked as an industrial engineer and as a supply executive for four years at Tata Steel, the largest private steel manufacturer in India. While at Tata Steel, Krishna completed projects in workforce planning, incentive planning, performance improvement, benchmarking, capital schemes evaluation, supply-chain management, and total quality management.
To download his short resume, please click here.
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Wei Huang
Assistant Vice President - System Architecture |
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(352) 334-7283, Ext. 306 |
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(352) 870-0333 |
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Dr. Wei Huang is Assistant Vice President of System Architecture at Innovative Scheduling. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in Control Theory and Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville. Huang specializes in solving large-scale optimization models arising in logistics and transportation. He has considerable experience in packaging optimization algorithms within user-friendly, web-enabled decision support systems, which have been well received by industry practitioners. Huang's operations research skills are complemented by his acute knowledge of computer science, including advanced data structures, databases, and software engineering. This unique combination of skills enables Huang to engineer holistic software solutions.
Prior to joining the company, Huang designed and implemented several commercial-grade production systems that employed a variety of programming languages and database environments. These include traffic management systems for Yantai City, China, an information management system for Fujian Refinery, China, and a water management and optimization system for the city of Cocoa, FL. At Innovative Scheduling, Huang developed a suite of controls that facilitate rapid packaging of optimization and simulation algorithms into web-enabled decision support systems. He is one of the lead developers of the Innovative Railroad Blocking Optimizer and the Innovative Train Scheduling Optimizer.
To download his short resume, please click here.
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Arvind Kumar
Assistant Vice President - Research & Development |
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(352) 334-7283, Ext. 316 |
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(352) 871-2978 |
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Dr. Arvind Kumar is Assistant Vice President of Research & Development at Innovative Scheduling. He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville. His award-winning Ph.D. research pioneered algorithms to improve the planning of radiation-therapy treatment for cancer patients.
Arvind specializes in mathematical modeling of complex, real-life decision problems using state-of-the-art operations research techniques. He strives to provide simple, elegant solutions to complex problems. His principal emphasis is on developing robust, flexible solution techniques that can easily adapt to ever-changing business requirements. He is an expert in both optimization and simulation techniques.
Arvind is the lead development manager for the railroad blocking optimizer and the locomotive planning optimizer. He is also a key member of the team developing the truckline network planning system. In addition to working on these core products, Arvind is also an accomplished consultant and actively supports projects in strategy, planning, and analysis.
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