Sri
Talluri earned the B. S. degree in mechanical
engineering in India in 1989, the M. S. degree
in industrial and manufacturing systems
engineering and the Ph. D. degree in production
and operations management from the University of
Texas at Arlington in 1992 and 1996,
respectively. He is the Hoagland-Metzler Endowed
Professor and Professor of Operations and Supply
Chain Management at Michigan State University.
His research interests are in the areas of
supply risk, buyer-supplier relationships and
supply contracts, sustainability in supply
chains, technology management, and performance
evaluation. Sri's methodological expertise lies
in the areas of optimization methods
(deterministic and stochastic models), game
theory, empirical methods (statistical models),
and data envelopment analysis. He has more than
100 journal publications in a variety of
top-tier academic journals including the IIE
Transactions, Decision Sciences, Production and
Operations Management Journal, Journal of
Operations Management, International Journal of
Production Research, European Journal of
Operational Research, IEEE Transactions on
Engineering Management, and has presented papers
in various national and international
conferences. Sri has over 12,000 citations of
his work and an h-index of 52.
In journal articles published in 2013,
2015, and 2020, Sri was ranked as a top 20
(rank # 17) researcher worldwide in terms of
the impact of his work in the domain of data
envelopment analysis (Liu, J.S., Lu, Y. Y.,
Lu, W.M., and Lin, B.J. Data envelopment
analysis 1978-2010: A citation-based
literature survey, OMEGA, 41, pp. 3-15, 2013),
top 1% researcher worldwide in the area of
operations management based on publications in
elite journals (Shang, G., Saladin, B., Fry,
T., and Donohue, J. Twenty-Six Years of
Operations Management Research (1985 - 2010):
Authorship Patterns and Research Constituents
in Eleven Top Rated Journals, International
Journal of Production Research, 53(20), pp.
6161 - 6197, 2015), and top 1% management
scholar globally based on citations and impact
in a study conducted by Stanford University
researchers (Bass, J., Boyack, K., and
Ioannids, J. P. A. Updated Science-Wide Author
Databases of Standardized Citation Indicators,
PLOS Journal, 2020, DOI:
10.17632/btchxktzyw.2), respectively. Sri has
delivered invited presentations at various
countries that include Australia, United
Kingdom, Spain, India, France, Portugal,
United Arab Emirates, China, Germany, Denmark,
Belgium, Italy, Peru, New Zealand, Finland,
and Switzerland. His research is funded by
companies and organizations such as Dow
Chemical, Lear Corporation, CIBER, McNeil
Healthcare, and Center for Advanced Purchasing
Studies (CAPS). His consulting experience
includes a variety of companies in the area of
supply chain optimization, which include SAP,
Chrysler, ArcBest, Johnson and Johnson,
Accenture, and Dash Optimization.
Dr. Talluri was designated as a Fellow of
the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) in
2019. He is one of the 116 fellows of DSI
over the 50-year rich history of the
organization. Sri received the 2021 IEOM
Society's Distinguished Professor Award in
recognition and appreciation of his
contributions to industrial engineering and
operations management profession. He was also
a Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Business
and Economics for the year 2016-2017, and
currently holds the position of Honorary
Professorial Fellow at the University of
Melbourne, Australia. He was the recipient of
the Dean's Research Excellence Award in 2019,
and John D. and Dortha J. Withrow Endowed
Emerging Scholar Award for outstanding
scholarly contributions in 2004. Sri currently
serves as the Co-Editor in Chief of the
Decision Sciences Journal. He was the past
Department Editor at the IEEE Transactions on
Engineering Management and a member of various
editorial boards at top-tier journals. He
served as the Conference Chair for the 47th
Annual Decision Sciences Institute Conference,
Track Chair for Supply Chain Management at the
14th and 16th Annual Production and Operations
Management Conferences, and the Track Chair
for Sourcing Management for the 18th Annual
POMS Conference. He has also served as a
plenary and keynote speaker at several
international conferences. In addition, he
was the Associate Executive Director for POMS
from 2006-2009. He is a member of honor
societies, such as Alpha Pi Mu & Phi Kappa
Phi, and professional organizations, which
include the DSI, the Institute for Operations
Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS),
and the Production and Operations Management
Society (POMS).
Professor Talluri has more than 20 years of
teaching experience and has taught a variety of
graduate and undergraduate courses in the areas
of supply chain management, operations
management, operations research/management
science, and statistics.