Biography:Rajan Batta
Rajan Batta | |
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| Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs University at Buffalo | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Banaras, India |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | Indian Institute of Technology Delhi Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Industrial and Systems Engineering Operations Research Military Operations Research Facility Location Transportation |
| Institutions | University at Buffalo |
| Doctoral students | 48 |
Rajan Batta is an American operations research scientist, currently a SUNY Distinguished Professor at State University of New York. Batta earned his doctorate in Operations Research in 1984 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is a member of State University of New York Operations Research faculty beginning in 1984. He is also worked as a dean for Industrial and systems engineering department at University at Buffalo before taking on the position of Associate Dean for faculty affairs.
Education
Batta received his undergraduate degree with honors (BTech) in Mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India in 1980 and his PhD[1] degree in Operations Research in 1984 from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
As an author
Batta is a published author in various fields of operations research, applied operations research]], military operations research, facility location, and transportation.[2][3]
Batta was listed in the top 50 "most productive and influential authors" in an article commemorating the 40th year of publication of European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR). He has published a total of 20 papers in EJOR during the journal's first 40 years. His most cited paper in EJOR is "Review of recent developments in OR/MS research in disaster operations management" published in 2013. It is co-authored with his former PhD student Gina Galindo, who is now a faculty member at the University of del Norte, Baranquilla, Colombia. This paper has a total of 198 citations according to Google Scholar.[4]
References
- ↑ Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
- ↑ "Batta, Rajan". worldcat.org. https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n86851198/. Retrieved December 11, 2016.
- ↑ "Rajan Batta". scholar.google.com. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=R5ftkUsAAAAJ&hl=en. Retrieved December 11, 2016.
- ↑ "Professor Rajan Batta the top 50 "most productive and influential authors" of EJOR – Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering – University at Buffalo" (in en). https://engineering.buffalo.edu/industrial-systems/news-events.host.html/content/shared/engineering/industrial-systems/articles/news-articles/2017/professor-rajan-batta-the-top-50-most-productive-and-influential.detail.html.
External links
- "Rajan Batta – University at Buffalo" (in en). http://engineering.buffalo.edu/home/school/about/people/rajan-batta.html.
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