Rani G. Selvanathan

Rani G. Selvanathan

Ph.D., Associate Professor, Management Department, West Chester University, USA.

Education: 

  • B.Sc. Physics, University of Delhi, India.
  • 1969 - M.Sc. Operations Research, Awarded University Gold Medal for the best candidate in Operations Research, University of Delhi, India.
  • Certified Production & Inventory Manager, American Production & Inventory Control Society (APICS).
  • 1973 - Ph.D. Operations Research, University of Delhi, India.
  • 1977 - Doctorat de Troisieme Cycle (Ph.D.) (Transportation Economics), University of Paris, France. 

Employment:

  • 1976-1980 - Assistant Professor, CERI (Center for Information Sciences), Algeria. 
  • 1980-1981 - Research Assistant, RATP (The Urban Transportation System), France.
  • 1981-1983 - Director of Graduate Program in Applied Operations Research, Sacred Heart University, Bridgeport, CT.
  • 1981-1985 - Associate Professor, Graduate Program in Applied Operations Research, Sacred Heart University, Bridgeport, CT.
  • 1985-1986 - Adjunct Professor, Department of Management, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.
  • 1990-1993 - Chairperson, Management Department, West Chester University, West Chester, PA.
  • 1986-present - Associate Professor, Management Department, West Chester University, West Chester, PA. 

Honors and awards: 

  • 1964-1967 - National Science Talent Scholar, Delhi, India. 
  • 1969 - University Gold medal fort the best candidate in Operations Research, Delhi, India.
  • 1969-1972 - Junior Research Fellow, University Grants Commission, Delhi, India.
  • 1972-1976 - French Government Scholarship for higher studies. 

Research publications: 

  • Increasing Productivity in Developing Countries, Paper presented at American Management Association Conference, 1992.
  • Commuter Time - an objective to find routes on a traffic network: An application to the urban highway network of Paris (Thesis for the doctoral degree, University of Paris, Paris, France.)
  • A thesis on a study of some waiting line models and storage systems (Thesis for the Ph.D. degree)
  • The transient behavior of the queuing system GI/M/1 (∞ / FCFS) with arrival in batches, Ekonomicko Matematicky Obzor, Vol. 7, 1971.
  • Some results for a finite capacity queue, Opsearch, Vol. 8, December 1971.
  • First passage time for a dam with bulk/fractional release, Ekonomicko Matematicky Obzor, Vol 8, 1971.
  • On the waiting time distribution of a cascade queuing process, Revue Francaise d'Automatique, d'Informatique et de la Recherche Operationnelle.

Ongoing research projects:


  •  The hub and spoke versus the minimal spanning network, a look at the cost factor.
  • Forecasting changes in national productivity through changes in demographic composition. 
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