Ratna B. Chinnam, Ph.D.
Affiliations: | 1994-2000 | Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering | North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, United States |
2000- | Industrial & Systems Engineering | Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States |
Area:
Industrial Engineering, Analytics, Data ScienceWebsite:
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"Ratna Chinnam"Bio:
Dr. Ratna Babu Chinnam is an expert in Big Data & Business Analytics. He received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology of Mangalore University (India) in 1988 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial Engineering from Texas Tech University (U.S.A.) in 1990 and 1994, respectively. He is a Professor in the Industrial & Systems Engineering Department at Wayne State University. Prior to that, he was an Assistant Professor in the Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering Department at North Dakota State University from 1994 to 2000. He is the author of over 150 technical publications (journal articles, conference proceedings, and research reports). His research interests include business analytics, big data, supply chain management, freight logistics, operations management, sustainability, healthcare systems engineering, and smart engineering systems. He is currently the Associate Editor for the International Journal of Modeling and Simulation, the International Journal of Quality, Statistics, and Reliability, and the North American Editor for the Journal of Remanufacturing. His past research is funded by the U.S. NSF, DoT, DoD, DoE, and VA. He carried out collaborative research with such multi-national companies as Ford Motor Company, General Dynamics, Intel, Goodyear, and consulted for such companies as Chrysler, Sirius Satellite Radio, Energy Conversion Devices, Dominos, CapGemini, Faurecia, Whirlpool, Steelcase, MRF Tyres, Magna International, DataFactZ, and Tecton. He graduated over 25 doctoral students with many occupying academic positions and is awarded the 2012 Outstanding Graduate Mentor Award. He is a Founding Director for the Big Data & Business Analytics Group at Wayne State University. He is also the founding Director of the Global Executive PhD Track at Wayne State, the first such engineering PhD program in the U.S. He also leads the Business Analytics Spoke for the NSF's Midwest Big Data Hub. He is also the Founding Director for the novel Data Science & Business Analytics MS Degree at Wayne State. His students have won a number of best paper awards from national and international conferences, journals, and professional societies, including the 2013 INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society's Best Dissertation Prize (awarded to Farshid Azadian), the 2014 INFORMS ENRE Best Student Paper Award (awarded to Mahyar Nejad), the 2014 POMS College of Sustainable Operations Best Student Paper Runner-Up Award (awarded to Mahyar Nejad), and the IISE Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award (awarded to Mahyar Nejad).
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Children
Sign in to add traineeFatih Camci | grad student | 2005 | Wayne State |
Pundarikaksha Baruah | grad student | 2006 | Wayne State |
Mahmoud El-Banna | grad student | 2006 | Wayne State |
Ramakrishna Govindu | grad student | 2006 | Wayne State |
Ibrahim Dogan | grad student | 2008 | Wayne State |
Gangaraju Vanteddu | grad student | 2008 | Wayne State |
Dingzhou Cao | grad student | 2011 | Wayne State |
Ali R. Guner | grad student | 2011 | Wayne State |
Akhilesh Kumar | grad student | 2011 | Wayne State |
Chongwen Zhou | grad student | 2011 | Wayne State |
Jehad Zughyer | grad student | 2011 | Wayne State |
Farshid Azadian | grad student | 2012 | Wayne State |
Erkan Isikli | grad student | 2012 | Wayne State |
Seyed A. Taghavi Behbahani | grad student | 2012 | Wayne State |
Arun K. Timalsina | grad student | 2012 | Wayne State |
Hatice Ucar | grad student | 2012 | Wayne State |
Saman Alaniazar | grad student | 2013 | Wayne State |
Rachel R. Itabashi-Campbell | grad student | 2013 | Wayne State |
Edward L. Umpfenbach | grad student | 2013 | Wayne State |
Nancy Philippart | grad student | 2014 | Wayne State |
Shanshan Qiu | grad student | 2014 | Wayne State |
Publications
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Fazeli SS, Venkatachalam S, Chinnam RB, et al. (2020) Two-Stage Stochastic Choice Modeling Approach for Electric Vehicle Charging Station Network Design in Urban Communities Ieee Transactions On Intelligent Transportation Systems. 1-16 |
Lee SY, Chinnam RB, Dalkiran E, et al. (2019) Prediction of emergency department patient disposition decision for proactive resource allocation for admission. Health Care Management Science |
Faridimehr S, Venkatachalam S, Chinnam RB. (2019) A Stochastic Programming Approach for Electric Vehicle Charging Network Design Ieee Transactions On Intelligent Transportation Systems. 20: 1870-1882 |
Almohri H, Chinnam RB, Colosimo M. (2019) Data-driven analytics for benchmarking and optimizing the performance of automotive dealerships International Journal of Production Economics. 213: 69-80 |
Kumar A, Chinnam RB, Tseng F. (2019) An HMM and polynomial regression based approach for remaining useful life and health state estimation of cutting tools Computers & Industrial Engineering. 128: 1008-1014 |
Umpfenbach EL, Dalkiran E, Chinnam RB, et al. (2018) Optimization of strategic planning processes for configurable products Journal of the Operational Research Society. 69: 1834-1853 |
Sadati N, Chinnam RB, Nezhad MZ. (2018) Observational data-driven modeling and optimization of manufacturing processes Expert Systems With Applications. 93: 456-464 |
Umpfenbach EL, Dalkiran E, Chinnam RB, et al. (2018) Promoting sustainability of automotive products through strategic assortment planning European Journal of Operational Research. 269: 272-285 |
Rapp S, Chinnam R, Doerry N, et al. (2018) Product development resilience through set-based design Systems Engineering. 21: 490-500 |
Nejad MM, Mashayekhy L, Grosu D, et al. (2017) Optimal Routing for Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicles Transportation Science. 51: 1304-1325 |