Professor Gautam's CV

Education

Ph.D., Operations Research, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1997

M.S., Operations Research, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1995

B.Tech., Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, India, 1993

Employment Experience

Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering (with tenure) and Electrical Engineering, Texas A&M University, 2005 - present.

Associate Professor of Industrial Engineering (with tenure), Pennsylvania State University (PSU), 2003 - 2005.

Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering, Pennsylvania State University (PSU), 1997 - 2003.

Research Domains

• Energy Conservation

• Computer and Information Infrastructure

• Stochastic Systems

Honors (last 5 years)

• Outstanding Young Industrial Engineer (education category), by IIE, May 2006.
• Best Paper Award in the Computers and Information Systems Category at the Industrial Engineering Research Conference, IIE Annual Conference, Atlanta, May 2005.
• PSU-IIE Outstanding Faculty Award, April 2005.
• Best Paper Award in the Computers and Information Systems Category at the Industrial Engineering Research Conference, IIE Annual Conference, Houston, May 2004.
• Best Invited Paper Award in the Operations Research Division of IIE at the Industrial Engineering Research Conference, IIE Annual Conference, Houston, May 2004.
• Best Paper Award Certificate at the European Applied Business Research Conference, Venice, Italy, June 2003.
• PSU-IIE Outstanding Faculty Award, April 2003.
• PSES Outstanding Teaching Award, March 2003.

Courses at Texas A&M

• ISEN 618: Stochastic Processes (Graduate Course on Advanced Stochastic Processes). Offered during Fall 08.
• ISEN 602: Applications of Random Processes (Graduate Course on measure-theoretic probability). Offered during Spring 08.
• ISEN 681: ISE Colloquium (Graduate Seminar). Offered during Fall 07, Spring 08.
• ISEN 314: Statistical Control of Quality (Undergraduate course on quality control). Offered during Fall 07, Fall 08.
• INEN 689: Probability for Engineering Decisions (Graduate Course on Probability and Stochastic Processes). Offered during Spring 07.
• INEN 689: Operations Research Models for Computer-Communication Networks (Graduate Course on Performance Models). Offered during Fall 06.
• INEN 316: Production Systems Operations (Undergraduate Course on Stochastic Models in Production). Offered during Summer 06 (team taught).
• INEN 624: Applied Distribution and Queueing Theory (Graduate Course on Queueing Theory). Offered during Spring 06, Summer 08.
• INEN 421: Operations Research II (Undergraduate Course on Stochastic OR). Offered during Fall 05.

Recent Publications

The following publications are such that each article is listed under its most appropriate category. Postscript or PDF versions of many of the papers are included. Any questions please send mail to .

• Data Centers

• Distributed Systems

• Queues and Networks

Other Publications

The following publications are such that each article is listed under its most appropriate category. Postscript or PDF versions of many of the papers are included. Any questions please send mail to .

• High-speed Networks: Quality of Service, Fluid Queues, Scheduling Multiclass Traffic

• Web Hosting Services: Pricing, Autonomic Control, Performance, Optimization

• Telecommunication Networks: Monitoring, Traffic Models, Wireless networks, MANETs

• Information Systems: Information Retrieval, Design, Peer-to-peer Networks

• Transportation Systems: Performance, Capacity, Reliability, Travel Times

• Complex Distributed Systems: Agent Based Planning

• Computer Systems: Network Interface Cards, Scheduling, Clusters

• Production Systems, Transportation and Logistics

Editorship

• Associate Editor, INFORMS Journal on Computing, 2000-present.
• Editorial Board Member, Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2007-present.
• Newsletter Editor and Website Editor, INFORMS Applied Probability Society, 2000-2003.

Professional Society Positions

• Director for IIE CIS division board, 2006-present.
• Member-of-council for INFORMS Telecommunication Section, 2006-present.
• Technical Program Committee for SENET 2005, 2006 and 2007.
• Conference Organizing Committee, IIE, IERC, Orlando, May 2006.
• Central North America Regional Director of Omega Rho, 2006-present.
• Northeastern North America Regional Director of Omega Rho, 2003-2006.
• Officer of the INFORMS Applied Probability Society, 2000-2003.
• Applied Probability Cluster Chair, INFORMS conference, Philadelphia, November 1999.

Students (Texas A&M)

• Current
  • Piyush Goel (Ph.D.)
  • Young Myoung Ko (Ph.D.)
  • Cesar Rincon Mateus (Ph.D.)
  • Ezgi Can Eren (Ph.D.)
• Graduated (M.S.)
  • Hoda Parvin (Spring 2007)
  • Seon Jin Kim (Spring 2007)
  • Randall Kesselring (Spring 2007)

Students (Penn State)

• Graduated (Ph.D.)
  • Jeffrey P. Kharoufeh (Spring 01)
  • H. Cenk Ozmutlu (Summer 01)
  • Seokcheon Lee (Fall 05) - Co-advisor
  • Sai Rajesh Mahabhashyam (Summer 06)
  • Yiyu Chen (Fall 06)
• Graduated (M.S.)
  • Mohamed Yacoubi (Fall 98)
  • Jenna L. Estep (Fall 00)
  • Prathiusha Chinnusamy (Spring 01)
  • Girish Srinivasan (Summer 01)
  • Naveen Cherukuri (Spring 02)
  • Vineet Aggarwal (Summer 02)
  • Amit K. Kapur (Fall 02)
  • Ramesh Yechangunja (Fall 02)
  • Lauren Hertel (Spring 03)
  • Christina Galli (Spring 03)
  • Hemant Mallya (Fall 03)
  • Vidya Narayanan (Spring 05) - Co-advisor
  • Deepak Jayabalan (Spring 05)
  • Yongma Moon (Summer 05)
• Graduated (B.S.)
  • Adebola A. Adewumi (Fall 00)
  • Holly S. Hawkins (Fall 01)
  • George Caruso (Fall 01)
  • Matthew Houle (Spring 05)
• Current
  • Emmanuelle Wallach (Ph.D.)

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