Rajendran C-IITM

Dr. Rajendran C

Professor

Dr.rer.pol.h.c.(Business Administration and Economics) ,University of Passau, Germany (2017)

Ph.D.(Industrial Engineering and Management) ,IIT Madras (1991) (Supervisor: Prof. Dipak Chaudhuri Title: Algorithms for Scheduling in Flowshops to Minimize Total Flowtime)

M.E.(Industrial Engineering) , College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University (1984)

B.E(Honours) in Mechanical Engineering , College of Engineering, Guindy, University of Madras (1982)

+91-44-2257 4559

craj[at]iitm.ac.in

Office : DoMS 409

Areas of Interest

Industrial Engineering
Production and Operations Management
Supply Chain Management
Operations Research Applications
Quality Management
Especially related to Scheduling in Manufacturing and Service Systems
Supply Chain Network
Inventory and Logistics Management
Data Analytics
Empirical Studies on Quality
Heuristics and Meta-heuristics (such as genetic algorithms, simulated annealing and swarm intelligence)
Simulation Modelling and Applications.

Professional Experience

Academic Distinctions

Research Fellowships/ Awards

Research Distinctions/ Recognitions

FNAE - Elected Fellow of Indian Academy of Engineering (2018).
Dr.rer.pol.h.c. (Doctor of Business Administration and Economics Honoris Causa) from the University of Passau in recognition of long-standing, close connection with the University of Passau and outstanding achievements and contributions to research in the domains of Business, Economics and Information Systems (2017).
Recipient of the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship of Germany – awarded by Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung of Germany.
Selected for RAGS Family Foundation Institute Chair in IIT Madras in 2016, and Chair Professorship extended in 2021.
Ranked #1 among 1,416 faculty members (across all functional areas of Management) in the top 32 Business Schools in India who had published during 1968 – 2014. (see Sahoo, B.K., Singh, R., Mishra, B., and Sankaran, K., “Research Productivity in ManagementSchools of India during 1968-2015: A Directional Benefit-of-Doubt Model Analysis”. Omega, Vol. 66, Part A, 118-139 (2017)).
Ranked #30 (in terms of distributed articles) and #27 (in terms of shared articles) among 14,127 authors who had published in at least one of the top 11 Operations Management journals in the world during 1985-2010. (see Shang, G., Saladin, B., Fry, T., and Donohue, J., “Twenty-Six years of Operations Management Research (1985-2010): Authorship Patterns and Research Constituents in Eleven Top Rated Journals”. International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 53, No. 20, pp. 6161–6197 (2015)).
Nominated for DAAD Research Ambassadorship in India in 2014.
Ranked #10 (in terms of author articles) and #8 (in terms of full articles) among 7,103 authors who had published in International Journal of Production Research (a high ranking journal in Production Research in the world) during 1985 to 2010. (see Fry, T.D., Donohue, J.M., Saladin, B.A., and Shang, G., “The origins of research and patterns of authorship in the International Journal of Production Research”. International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 51, No. 23-24, 7470-7500 (2013)).
Ranked #15 (in terms of h-index) among 44,881 authors who had published in at least one of the top 20 core Operations Management (OM) journals in the world during 1959-2008. (see Hsieh, P.- N., and Chang, P.-Long., “An assessment of world-wide research productivity inproduction and operations management”., International Journal of Production Economics, Vol. 120, 540-551 (2009), and Hsieh, P.-N., “Addendum to “an assessment of world-wide research productivity in production and operations management”., International Journal of Production Economics, Vol. 125, 335-338(2010)).

International Publications

Dr. Rajendran C

Professor

Department of Management Studies
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Pincode : 600036

Phone: +91 044 2257 4550
Email: doms[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in

© 2025-All rights reserved. Department of Management Studies

Dr. Rajendran C

Professor

Department of Management StudiesIndian Institute of Technology MadrasChennai, Tamil Nadu, India.Pincode : 600036

Phone: +91 044 2257 4550Email: doms[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in

© 2025-All rights reserved. Department of Management Studies

Department of Management Studies
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Pincode : 600036

Phone: +91 044 2257 4550
Email: doms[at]iitm[.]ac[.]in