News

• Apr 2025: Appointed as the Editorial Board Member for Scientific Reports journal
• Mar 2025: Paper titled “Collaborative Human–Robot Teaming for Dynamic Order Picking: Interventionist strategies for improving warehouse intralogistics operations” accepted for publication in Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review.
• Feb 2025: Paper titled “Order acceptance and scheduling on non-identical parallel machines with dependent setup times: new mixed integer programming formulations” accepted for publication in Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal.
• Jan 2025: Paper titled “A clustering-metaheuristic-simulation approach to determine air taxi operating site location” accepted for publication in Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives.
• Jan 2025: NSF I-Corps Grant Awarded for project titled “Translation Potential of a Software Platform for Optimizing Collaborative Human-Robot Operations” (PI: Sharan Srinivas) NSF Public Abstract.
• Dec 2024: Voted by Graduating Seniors as the Outstanding Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering for Fall 2024.
• Nov 2024: Received Outstanding ISE Faculty Award” for excellence in research, teaching and service from MU IMSE Hall of Fame.
• Sep 2024: Promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at the University of Missouri
• Aug 2024: NSF CyberTraining Grant Awarded for project titled “CyberTraining: Implementation: Small: Application-inspired Cloud DevOps Training using an Online Self-service Learning Platform” (PI: Prasad Calyam, Co-PIs: Sharan Srinivas, Noah Glaser) NSF CyberTraining Public Abstract.
• Jul 2024: Appointed as the Editorial Board Member for BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making journal
• Feb 2024: Appointed as the Editorial Board Member for Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review journal
• Dec 2023: Voted by Graduating Seniors as the Outstanding Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering for Fall 2023.
• Sep 2023: Department of Defense (DoD) flow-through Grant Awarded for project titled “Analysis Capabilities for Competition, Crisis, and Combat (AC4)” (PI: James Noble, Co-PI: Sharan Srinivas, Suchithra Rajendran)
• Sep 2023: Alaska Department of Transportation Research Grant Awarded for project titled “Development of an intelligent truck transport management application for freight and fuel movement through route optimization, scenario analysis, and incident management” (PI: Sharan Srinivas, Co-PIs: Suchithra Rajendran, Prasad Calyam).
• Aug 2023: NSF PFI-TT Grant Awarded for project titled “PFI-TT: Cloud-based Route Management Platform for Optimizing Last-Mile Logistics of Electric Truck and Drone Operations” (PI: Sharan Srinivas, Co-PIs: Suchithra Rajendran, Prasad Calyam) NSF PFI-TT Public Abstract.
• May 2023: Paper titled “Collaborative truck multi-drone delivery system considering drone scheduling and en route operations” accepted for publication in Annals of Operations Research.
• Mar 2023: Received 2023 Outstanding Junior Excellence in Teaching Award” from MU College of Engineering.
• Apr 2023: NSF IRES Grant Awarded for project titled “International Research Experiences for Students in AI-Enabled Decision Analytics for Advancing Air Taxi and Drone Operations” (PI: Suchithra Rajendran, Co-PI: Sharan Srinivas, Prasad Calyam, Derek Anderson) NSF IRES Public Abstract
• Feb 2023: NSF REU Grant Awarded for project titled “Research on Prescriptive Analytics for AI-enabled Operations Engineering” (PI: Suchithra Rajendran, Co-PI: Sharan Srinivas, Prasad Calyam) NSF REU Public Abstract
• Dec 2022: Paper titled “Passenger intelligence as a competitive opportunity: unsupervised text analytics for discovering airline-specific insights from online reviews” accepted for publication in Annals of Operations Research.
• Dec 2022: Paper titled “It is about inclusion! Mining online reviews to understand the needs of adaptive clothing customers” accepted for publication in International Journal of Consumer Studies.
• Dec 2022: Paper titled “Explainable machine learning framework for predicting long-term cardiovascular disease risk among adolescents” accepted for publication in Scientific Reports.
• Oct 2022: Received Outstanding IMSE Faculty Award” for excellence in research, teaching and service from MU IMSE Hall of Fame.
• Sep 2022: Paper titled “Collaborative order picking with multiple pickers and robots: Integrated approach for order batching, sequencing and picker-robot routing” accepted for publication in International Journal of Production Economics.
• Aug 2022: NSF I-Corps Grant Awarded for project titled “A Scalable Cloud-based Route Optimization Software for Efficient Aerial and Road Logistics” (PI: Sharan Srinivas) NSF REU Public Abstract.
• Jul 2022: Paper titled “Autonomous robot-driven deliveries: A review of recent developments and future directions” accepted for publication in Trasportation Research Part E.
• Jun 2022: Paper titled “Collaborative truck multi-drone routing and scheduling problem: Package delivery with flexible launch and recovery sites” accepted for publication in Trasportation Research Part E.
• Dec 2021: Research work featured among Top 10 Stories of 2021 at MU College of Engineering
• Sep 2021: Grant awarded by Boeing (Co-I: Srinivas, PI: Noble)
• Aug 2021: Grant awarded by Missouri Dept of Higher Education and Workforce Development (PI: Srinivas, Co-Is: Seo, Scott, Matisziw)
• May 2021: Appointed as Academic Editor for the Journal of Healthcare Engineering
• Mar 2021: Appointed as Core Faculty at the MU Institute of Data Science and Informatics
• Feb 2021: Paper titled “Predicting Demand for Air Taxi Urban Aviation Services using Machine Learning Algorithms” accepted for publication in Journal of Air Transport Management.
• Nov 2020: Best Paper Finalist for research titled “Discovering Airline-specific Business Intelligence FromOnline Passenger Reviews: An Unsupervised Text Analytics Approach” at the INFORMS Data Mining and Decision Analytics Competition, INFORMS Annual Meeting.
• Sep 2020: Paper titled “Air Taxi Service for Urban Mobility: A Critical Review of Recent Developments, Future Challenges, and Opportunities.” has been accepted for publication in Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review.
• Aug 2020: Paper titled “Modeling and Analysis of Business Process Reengineering Strategies for Improving Emergency Department Efficiency” has been accepted for publication in Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International.
• Aug 2020: PhD student, Mohamed Salama, passed his comprehensive exam
• July 2020: Grant awarded by Roche Molecular Systems (along with investigators Drs. Richard Hammer and Suchithra Rajendran)
• May 2020: Elected to serve as Director for IISE OR Division