Associate Professor Tiru Arthanari
Associate Professor (OM)
Department:
Address: Owen G Glenn Building
12 Grafton Road
Auckland
Faculty: Business & Economics
Phone: +64 9 373 7599 Ext. 84857
Email: t.arthanari@auckland.ac.nz
Web Page: http://staff.business.auckland.ac.nz/staffpages/tarthanari/Resume.htm

Resume
Tiru Arthanari has a B.Sc. (Statistics) with first rank from the University of Madras, a Master’s degree in Statistics, M.Stat., a Diploma in O.R., and a Ph.D. all from the Indian statistical Institute (ISI, Calcutta), a premier institute of higher learning and research in the fields of quantitative methods and their applications. Tiru has served as the Head of the SQC & OR division of ISI, which provides training and consultation to industries through its 11 units spread all over India. The Quality Mission Project of the division was launched during that period with a major grant (equivalent to NZ$ 3 million) from the government of India. Tiru is a very successful quality and optimisation consultant with sound theoretical basis and vast applied experience. He is a trained quality system auditor. Before migrating to New Zealand, Tiru was serving one of the three centres of ISI located at Bangalore, India as its head.
Qualifications:
1976 PhD Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta
1967 Diploma in Operations Research Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta
1967 MStat, Specialisation in Operations Research Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta
1965 BSc, Statistics University of Madras, Madras
Special Interests:
Human Decision Making- Missing Middle hypothesis
Multivariate Measurement Systems- New insights on Mahalanobis Taguchi Systems
New polyhedral approaches to solving the Symmetric Traveling salesman Problem
Supply Chain Management - Value added services, Coopetition
System Dynamics Modeling- of corruption, sustainable transportation
Positions Held:
FromToInstitutionPosition Held
2000 Now University of Auckland, Auckland, Faculty of Business and Economics Associate Professor
1997 1999 University of Auckland, Auckland Honorary Research Fellow
1993 1996 Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Head of the institution
1990 1992 Indian Statistical Institute Head, SQC & OR Division
1986 1989 SQC & OR Unit, Madras Professor (equivalent)
1980 1985 SQC & OR Unit, Madras Associate Professor(equivalent)
1976 1979 School for Computer Applications, Tehran, Iran Faculty
1970 1975 Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta and Madras Lecturer, Sr. Lecturer
Awards:
2011 Appointed as an Editor of Open Journal of Discrete Mathematics
Service:
Association for Information Systems
Australian Association of Engineering Education
Australian Conservation Foundation
Life member, Operations Research Society of India
Operations Research Society of New Zealand
Production and Operations Management Society of America
Professional Member, Association of Computing Machinery
Teaching:
2006 MKTG 202 Marketing Research
---- INFOSYS 750 Research Methods - Quantitative
---- MATHS 208 Mathematics for Business
---- OPSMGT 357 Project Management
---- OPSMGT 370 Operations and Supply Chain Strategy
---- OPSMGT 371 Business Logistics
---- OPSMGT 372 Systems and Management of Quality
---- OPSMGT 376 Strategic Procurement
---- OPSMGT 760 Advanced Operations Management Systems
---- OPSMGT 762 Management of Quality
---- OPSRES 392 Operations Research for Management Science
Research Interests:
Pedigree Polytope and Traveling Salesman Problem
Traveling salesman problen is one of the difficult combinatorial problems. In this research I study an alternative combinatorial object called Pedigrees which I invented. My research students along with me have studied the properties of the set of pedigrees
[Invited Lectures]
1. “Introduction to Pedigree polytope” at ISI, Chennai, on 23 February, 2009. 2. “Pedigree polytope and symmetric traveling salesman polytope- some comparisons” at ISI, Chennai, on 25 February, 2009. 3. “New Polyhedral Approaches to Difficult combinatorial problems - Pedigree Polytopes” organised by CR Rao AIMSCS, Hyderabad, 25 March, 2009. 4. “Compact formulations for Difficult Combinatorial Problems - Pedigree Polytopes” given at Laboratory of Theoretical and Applied Computer Science, UFR MIM, Paul Verlaine University, Metz, France, 26 May, 2009. 5. “Pedigree Polytope and How it Differs from the STSP Polytope”- given at, the Symposium on Graph Theory, in the international conference, CMASM-07, Chennai, during January 6-8, 2007. 6. “On the Membership Problem of Pedigree Polytope”, - given at, international Symposium on Mathematical Programming for Decision Making: Theory and Applications, New Delhi, during January 10-11, 2007. 7. “Pedigree polytope is a Combinatorial Polytope”, - given at the international Conference ICOR 2004, Kolkata, January 2004. 8. “On Pedigree polytopes and Hamiltonian Cycles”- invited paper presented at Bose Centenary Symposium, 20-23 December, 2002, Kolkata, India.


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