Meet the Richard E. Dauch Chair in Manufacturing
Professor J. George Shanthikumar Ph.D. University of Toronto, 1979 |
Click here to read the recent interview between Center Director Dr. Ananth Iyer, and Dr. Shanthikumar!
Research
- Production System Modelling & Analysis
- Queueing Theory & Applications
- Reliability & Probability Theory
- Scheduling & Sequencing
- Simulation Methodology
- Stochastic Processes & Modelling
Publications
- Stochastic Models of Manufacturing Systems, (with John. A. Buzacott), Prentice Hall, 1992
- "Multiclass Queueing Systems: Polymatroid Structure and Optimal Scheduling Control" (with David D. Yao)Operations Research, 1992
- Stochastic Orders and Their Applications, (with Moshe Shaked), Academic Press, 1993
Ph.D. Theses Supervised
- "Optimization of Manufacturing Systems," R. L. Salstrom
- "Contributions to the Theory and Applications of Stochastic Convexity," L. E. Meester
- "Analysis of Discrete Queueing Network Model of Communication Systems," C. Wu
