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    Yogesh Agarwal

    Yogesh Agarwal

    Professor
    Decision Sciences

    Dr. Yogesh Agarwal joined Indian Institute of Management Lucknow in 1990 as Associate Professor in the Decision Sciences area, and was appointed Professor in 1998. Before joining IIM Lucknow, he worked for five years as Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, U.S.A. He completed his Ph.D. from the Operations Research Department of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, U.S.A. Prior to completing his Ph.D., he also worked for Leaseway Transportation Corp., U.S.A. and Union Carbide India Ltd. In addition to teaching and research, he has served IIM Lucknow as Dean (Academic Affairs), Chairman - Fellow Program, and Chairman - Admissions.

    His research interests include applications of integer and combinatorial optimization to transportation and telecommunications network design problems. These applications include topics such as Vehicle Routing Problem, Fixed Charge Transportation Problem, Plant Location Problem, Design of Survivable Optical Networks, Telecommunication Network Design with Multiple Facilities, and Design of Wireless Sensor Networks. His research has been published in reputed international journals such as Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing, and Networks.

    Current Research

    • Fixed Charge Transportation with Modular Capacities.
    • Simultaneous Production and Transportation Problem.
    • Design of Fixed Charge Multi-commodity Networks.
    • Quantitative Analysis for Management (Operations Research)
    • Simulation Modeling using GPSS
    • Quantitative Models for Transport and Telecom
    • Game Theory and Applications
    • Optimization Methods for Finance
    • Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization
    • Ph. D. (Operations Research) from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, U.S.A
    • P.G. Dip. (Industrial Engineering) from NITIE, Mumbai, India
    • B. E. (Chemical Engineering) from University of Roorkee (now IIT Roorkee), India
    • Lucent Technologies Bell Labs, U.S.A., Optimization Algorithms for Optical Network Design.
    • VPISystems Corp., U.S.A., Optimization Algorithms for Survivable Telecom Networks.
    • Silver Medal (Chemical Engineering), University of Roorkee
    • Distinguished Member of Technical Staff Award, AT&T Bell Labs., U.S.A.
    • Best Faculty Award, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow