Ravindra K. Ahuja

Ravindra K. Ahuja (born February 20, 1956) is an Indian-born American computer scientist and entrepreneur. He is currently Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, and CEO of the automation and optimization solutions provider Optym, which he founded in 2000 as Innovative Scheduling, Inc.

Ahuja specializes in mathematical modeling, state-of-the-art network optimization techniques and solving large-scale scheduling problems arising in logistics and transportation. He has developed models and algorithms for scheduling and logistics problems in airline, trucking and railroad industries worldwide. Many of these industry-specific problems were previously considered intractable. Ahuja’s optimization solutions are implemented by Optym’s advanced decision support systems.

Ahuja has provided scholarly contributions to the theory and applications of network optimization . He co-authored more than 100 research papers and book chapters in the areas of Industrial Engineering, Operations Research and Computer Science. He also co-authored three textbooks and served as Associate Editor of three journals: ''Operations Research'', ''Transportation Science'' and ''Networks''. Provided by Wikipedia