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Anant Balakrishnan
Associate Dean, Professor

Information,
Risk, and Operations Mgmt.

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Mailing Address:
Anant Balakrishnan
IROM, B6500
1 University Station
Austin, TX 78712

Short Bio:
Anant Balakrishnan is the Associate Dean for
Research and holds the Kenneth M. and Susan T. Jastrow, II Chair at the
McCombs School of Business. He has previously held faculty appointments in
the business schools at MIT, Penn State, and Purdue. He holds a Ph.D. from
MIT, and B. Tech (Electronics) and MBA degrees from IIT and IIM. Dr.
Balakrishnan’s research and teaching interests include operations and
supply chain management, management science, and telecommunications. His
research focuses on developing effective optimization models and methods
to support planning and managerial decision-making for operations,
logistics, and telecommunications. Dr. Balakrishnan has worked closely
with manymanufacturing and service firms, and has published in leading
journals such as Management Science, Networks, Operations Research,
Transportation Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management,
and Mathematical Programming. Professor Balakrishnan serves on several
editorial boards. His professional awards include the Zannetos Prize for
research, and the Salgo-Noren award for teaching. He was Vice-President of
Subdivisions for INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the
Management Sciences), and has organized and participated actively in many
professional activities of this association.

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