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Ramesh Bollapragada, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Decision Sciences

Ramesh Bollapragada was born in India. Having lived in Hyderabad, India for 21 years, he moved to U.S. in 1991.

Since August 2002, Professor Bollapragada has taught in the Decision Sciences department of the College of Business at San Francisco State University.

Over the past six years, he taught courses for the Executive MBA program, the MBA program, and undergraduates classes in the areas of operations management, supply chain management, business forecasting, total quality systems and mangerial statistics.

Prior to joining SF State, Ramesh was a member of the technical staff 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 experience in process automation and control in India.

Ramesh has a B.Tech. and M.S. in electrical engineering from India and a M.S. and Ph.D. in management of manufacturing and automation from the School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, 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 a dozen journal papers in Tier A journals, presented at over 20 international conferences (U.S and Europe) and is an invited session chair at the INFORMS meetings regularly.

His research is published in journals such as Management Science (2 papers), Interfaces (2 papers), INFORMS Journal of Computing (1 paper), Naval Research Logistics (1 paper), IIE Transactions on Scheduling and Logistics (2 papers), Transportation Journal (1 paper), OR Letters (1 paper), IJPR (1 paper), Italian OR Society Journal (1 paper). 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.

In addition, he guided over 20 MBA thesis projects in the College of Business.

Ramesh's biographic data has been published for four consectuive 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 named Research Professor of the Year for two consecutive years (2005-2006, 2004-2005) by the College of Business for excellence in research.

He was a semi-finalist for the Franz Edelman Award in 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 four 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; IIM-Ahmedabad, India, Politecnico di Torino, Italy; Helsinki school of Economics, Finland; 4C center, Cork, Ireland; Nice, France; Adminstrative 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 company wide 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 and served as the Delta Sigma Pi faculty advisor in spring 2003.

Ramesh is currently a member of the RTP committee in the college and 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).

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 his beloved mother, Managatayaru Dulla Bollapragada).

Contact Information

Email: rameshb@sfsu.edu

Website:

Office Hours: T 11:30-12:15; 4-5:30 (BUS 206A); TH 11:30-12:15 (BUS 206A); 5:30-6:30 (DTC 587)

Phone: 338-7487

Department: Decision Sciences

Location: BUS 206A/DTC 587

Education

Ph.D. (1996), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
Master of Science (1993), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
Master of Science (1989), India
Bachelor of Technology (1988), India

Research Interests

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

Honors and Awards

Semi-finalist for INFORMS Franz Edelman Award, 2009 (2009)

Visiting Professor, HEC School of Management, Paris, France (2008-2009)

Visiting Professor, MBA program, Univeristy of Nice, Nice, France (2008-2009)

Biographic Listing in Marquis Who is Who in the World (2005-2008)

Biographic Listing in Marquis Who is Who in Science and Engineering (2005-2008)

Biographic Listing in Marquis Who is Who in America (2005-2008)

Early Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor, SFSU, CA (2007)

Appeared on San Francisco TV, Radio for research on improving efficiency of FASTRAK (Bridge toll collection system) for Bay area bridges. This work appeared in 20 newspapers in State of California. (2007)

Visiting Professor, Department of Operations Management, Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, India (2007)

Research Professor of Year Award (2005-2006) College of Business, SFSU (2006)

Visiting Professor, University College, Cork, Ireland (2006)

Appointed as Adjunct Professor (Docent), Logistics Department, Helsinki School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland (2006)

Outstanding teaching achievements at MBA level. Taught a total of 10 MBA courses in past 4 years at SFSU. The average course rating is 1.6 out of 5 (1 – Excellent, 5 – Poor) (2006)

"Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award", Leadership in Action 2005-2006, Office of International Educaiton, SFSU, CA (2006)

Visiting Professor, Helsinki School of Economics, Finland (2005)

U.S. Patent 6917816, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=6917816 (2005)

Research Professor of Year Award (2004-2005) College of Business, SFSU (2005)

Visiting Professor, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University (2005)

Biographic Listing, Scholar Universe (2005)

Visiting Professor, Adminstrative Staff College, Hyderabad, India (2004)

Visiting Professor, Politechnico Di Torino, Torino, Italy (2004)

Finalist for INFORMS Wagner Prize Competition, 2003 (2003)

Visiting Professor, Adminstrative Staff College, Hyderabad, India (2003)

Biographic Listing in Manchesters Who is Who (2002)

Patent submisison: Methods for analyzing network configurations (2002)