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Dr. Srinivasan G

Professor
Ph.D. (1990) — (Industrial Engineering and Management), Indian Institute of Technology Madras
M.S. (1987) — Research, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
B.E. (1984) — (Honours), Anna University, Madras
gsrini[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in +91-44-2257 4565 Office: DoMS 111

Teaching & Research

Courses Taught

  • Fundamentals of Operations Research
  • Advanced Operations Research
  • Production and Operations Management
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Manufacturing Systems Management
  • Operations Research Applications
  • Services Operations Management

Research Interests

  • Cellular Manufacturing Systems
  • Flexible Manufacturing Systems
  • Scheduling
  • O.R. Applications

NPTEL Courses

  • Fundamentals of Operations Research: 22 video lectures (Viewership: 20 lakhs). Link
  • Advanced Operations Research: 39 video lectures (Viewership: 15 lakhs). Link
  • Operations and Supply Chain Management: 41 video lectures. Link
  • Manufacturing Systems Management: 40 video lectures. Link
  • Operations Research Applications: Linear and Integer Programming (Web course). Link

(The first four courses are also available on YouTube)

Selected International Journal Publications

  • Srinivasan, G., Narendran, T.T. and Mahadevan, B. (1990) An assignment model for the part families problem in Group Technology. International Journal of Production Research. (Times Cited = 265)
  • Srinivasan G. and Narendran T.T. (1991) GRAFICS A nonhierarchical clustering algorithm for Group Technology. International Journal of Production Research. (Times Cited = 200)
  • Srinivasan G. (1994) A Clustering algorithm for machine cell formation in Group Technology using minimum Spanning Trees. International Journal of Production Research. (Times Cited = 98)
  • Sudhir V, Srinivasan G and Muraleedharan V R (1997) Planning for sustainable solid waste management in Urban India. System Dynamics review. (Times Cited = 79)
  • Venkat Ramana Murthy Ch and Srinivasan G. (1995) Fractional Cell Formation in Group Technology. International Journal of Production Research. (Times Cited = 37)
  • K. Gowrishankar, Chandrasekharan Rajendran and G. Srinivasan (2001) Flow shop scheduling algorithms for minimizing the completion time variance... European Journal of Operational Research. (Times Cited = 37)
  • Bhaskar K and Srinivasan G (1997) Static and Dynamic operator allocation problems in Cellular Manufacturing Systems. International Journal of Production Research. (Times Cited = 38)
  • G Viswanath Kumar and G Srinivasan (2003) A Branch and Bound Algorithm for minimizing Completion Time Variance on Single Processor. Computers and Operations Research. (Times Cited = 34)
  • O Mahesh and G Srinivasan (2002) Incremental cell formation considering alternative machines. International Journal of Production Research. (Times Cited = 33)
  • Sudhir V, Muraleedharan V.R. and Srinivasan G (1996) Integrated Solid Waste Management in Urban India: A Critical Operational Research Framework. Socio Economic Planning Sciences. (Times Cited = 46)
  • Hemant Kumar N S and Srinivasan G (1996) A genetic algorithm for job shop scheduling - A case study. Computers in Industry. (Times Cited = 41)
  • B Srirangacharyulu and G Srinivasan (2010) Completion time variance minimization in single and multi machine systems. Computers and Operations Research.
  • B. Srirangacharyulu and G. Srinivasan (2013) “An exact algorithm to minimize mean squared deviation of job completion times about a common due date" European Journal of Operations Research.
  • Viswanathkumar Ganesan, Appa Iyer Sivakumar and G Srinivasan (2006) Hierarchical minimization of completion time variance and makespan in jobshops. Computers and Operations Research.
  • Ganesh M.V. and Srinivasan G. (1994) A Heuristic method for the Cell formation Problem in Group Technology. Computers and Industrial Engineering.
  • Shrey Ginoria and G.L. Samuel and G. Srinivasan (2015) Optimisation of a machine loading problem using a genetic algorithm-based heuristic. International Journal of Productivity and Quality Management.

Consulting

Research Based Industrial Consulting

  • Software for Life Cycle Cost Estimation for Aircraft.
  • Software for Statistical Analysis.
  • Software for Fault tree analysis.
  • Modules for convoy scheduling.

Industrial Consulting

  • Demand Planning (Oct 2001-Feb 2002).
  • Optimization of Warehouse Storage Space (April 2001 – July 2001).
  • Manpower Assessment (Co-investigator – Dr T T Narendran) (March 1999- Jan 2000).
  • Software for Operations Management (July 1998 – May 1999).
  • Design of Cellular Manufacturing Systems (Jun-Dec 1996).
  • Methods Improvement and Layout (Jun-Sep 1996).
  • Scheduling operations for sheet metal work (Jun-Sep 1996).
  • Cell Management System (Jun-Sep 1994).

Projects

  • Decision Support System for Aggregate Planning and Scheduling of Cellular Manufacturing Systems: MHRD, Govt. of India (1994-1996).
  • Decision Support System for Cell Formation in Group Technology: Young Scientist Scheme, Ministry of Science and Technology (1994-1996).
  • Decision Support System for Earthmoving Operations: Interdisciplinary projects Scheme of IIT Madras (Joint Coordinator).
  • Software for Synchronous Manufacturing: Indo-German project of BMBF (Joint Coordinator).

Books Authored

  • G Srinivasan (2010) Operations Research – Principles and Applications (Second Edition), Prentice Hall of India (P) Ltd, New Delhi. (ISBN – 978-81-203-4208-8)
  • G Srinivasan (2010) Quantitative Models in Operations and Supply Chain Management, PHI Learning (P) Ltd, New Delhi, (ISBN – 978 – 81-203-3981-1).
  • G Srinivasan (2007) Operations Research – Principles and Applications, Prentice Hall of India (P) Ltd, New Delhi. (ISBN – 978-81-203-3075-7)

Fellowships & Awards

  • BOYSCAST Fellowship: Awarded by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India for Advanced training in Total Quality Management (Jan-Dec 1997).
  • Visiting Scholar: Lehigh University, USA under the BOYSCAST fellowship (Jan-Dec 1997).