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.