VENKAT VENKATESWARAN
Room 725
Department of Engineering and Science
RPI Hartford
275 Windsor Street
Hartford, CT 06120
(860) 548 2458
email: venkav3@rpi.edu
RESEARCH, TEACHING AND CONSULTING INTERESTS
My interests are in operations research, especially in optimization and modeling. I have worked on models
as they arise in numerous settings – Telecommunications, Logistics, Content Distribution, Intrusion
Detection, VLSI Routing and Credit Management. In research, I am interested in optimization issues
(solution structure, complexity, algorithm efficiency) as well as in the modeling of processes and systems.
In teaching, I am interested in bringing out the wide applicability of core methodology as well as in
exploring topic-wise specific areas in operations such as distribution, credit management, or revenue
management. My research interests have often led to consulting. Past industrial projects have included
work for Virtual Photonics Inc. and for Innospire Systems Corp.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Operations Research, Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve Univ., 1984.
M.S.I.E., University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1980.
BTech, Mech.Engg., IIT (Indian Institute of Technology), Madras, India, 1973.
WORK HISTORY
Fall 2011 Fall 2008 – Fall 2011
Fall 2007 – Fall 2008
Fall 2005 - Fall 2007
Spring 2005 - Fall 2005
1999 – 2004
1997 –1999
1984 – 1997
1981-1984
1973-1978
Professor of Practice, RPI Hartford
Clinical Associate Professor, RPI Hartford
Senior University Lecturer, Mathematical Sciences Dept., New Jersey Institute of Technology
Special Lecturer, Mathematical Sciences Dept., New Jersey Institute of Technology
Adjunct Faculty, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and Monmouth University
Principal Technical Staff Member, Network Design and Performance Analysis Dept., AT&T
Labs.
Principal Technical Staff Member, Operations Research Dept., AT&T Labs.
Member of Technical Staff, Operations research Dept., AT&T Bell Laboratories
Graduate Research Assistant with Logistics Resources Inc., Leaseway Transportation,
Cleveland.
Special Purpose Machine Design Engineer, MICO, Bangalore, India
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Full Member, INFORMS
Member, SIAM
Referee for Linear Algebra and its Applications, Naval Research Logistics, SIAM J. of Matrix Anal. and
Appl. and OR Letters, Infocom.
Venkat Venkateswaran
HONORS
1993 Spirit of Communications Award for contributions to AT&T Consumer Communications Services
1995/1996 True Spirit Award for contributions to AT&T Consumer Communications Services
PUBLICATIONS
Venkat Venkateswaran and John Maleyeff, “Classifying Services by Attributes Important to
Customers,” International Journal of Business Intelligence and Data Mining Vol.6, No.4. p.
384-401, 2011.
Arnheiter, E., Maleyeff, J., and V. Venkateswaran, V., ”Lean Six Sigma for the 21st Century,”
Proceedings of the 2010 Northeast Decision Sciences Conference, March 26-28, Alexandria,
VA.
Ed Arnheiter, John Maleyeff and Venkat Venkateswaran, “The Continuing Evolution of Lean Six
Sigma,” submitted to the TQM Journal.
V. Venkateswaran, “Minimizing Max-Indegree,” Discrete Applied Mathematics, No. 143, 2004,
pp. 374- 378.
M. Kodialam and V. Venkateswaran, “Bandwidth Allocation in Multicast Trees with QoS
Constraints,” Intl. Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making, Vol.2, No. 4, Dec.
2003.
Nguyen,Q.C., and Venkateswaran,V.,"Implementations of the Goldberg-Tarjan Algorithm,"
DIMACS Series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, Vol.12, 1993.
Venkateswaran,V., "An algorithm for the Linear Complementarity Problem
with a P0 -matrix," SIAM Journal of Matrix Analysis and Applications, Vol.14, No.4, 1993.
Venkateswaran,V., "A Descent Approach to Solving the Complementary Programming Problem,"
Naval Research Logistics, Vol.38, 679-698 (1991).
Cottle,R.W., Pang,J.S., and Venkateswaran,V., "Sufficient Matrices and the Linear
Complementarity Problem," Linear Algebra and Its Applications, Vol.114/115, 231-249 (1989).
Venkateswaran,V., "Book Review of Linear Programming and Network Models", Networks ,
Vo.19, 173 (1989).
BOOKS
V. Venkateswaran Handbook of Constrained Optimization in preparation under contract for CRC Press.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Several presentations at INFORMS National Conferences and International Mathematical Programming
Symposiums.
Venkat Venkateswaran
INTERNAL AT&T LABS. TECHICAL MEMORANDA
Numerous technical memoranda on telecommunication network design, VLSI routing, intrusion detection,
credit management and new services deployment.