Keynote Speaker
Jayant Rajgopal, Ph.D., P.E.
Dr. Rajgopal is a Professor and the graduate program director in the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. He obtained his Ph.D. in Industrial & Management Engineering from the University of Iowa, and has been a faculty member at Pitt since 1986.
His teaching and research are in the general area of operations research, with a focus on mathematical modeling & optimization theory and methods. His current application interests are in global supply chains; production, operations, and logistics; and healthcare delivery systems. He has taught, conducted sponsored research, supervised doctoral students, published or consulted in all of these areas, and has over 100 peer-reviewed publications in books, conference proceedings and scholarly journals.
Dr. Rajgopal is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), a senior member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), and a registered Professional Engineer in the state of Pennsylvania.