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Dr. Hari Balasubramanian, Assistant Professor

Hari Balasubramanian322 ELab
University of Massachusetts
160 Governors Drive
Amherst, MA 01003-2210
E-mail: hbalasubraman@ecs.umass.edu
Phone: (413) 577-3208
Fax: (413) 545-1027

 

  

Education:
B.E: Production Engineering, Regional Engineering College, Trichy, India, 2000
M.S: Industrial Engineering, Arizona State University, 2002
Ph.D: Industrial Engineering, Arizona State University, 2006

Research Interests: Operations research applied to healthcare delivery, specifically patient access management and medical decision making and health policy; scheduling theory and algorithms; combinatorial optimization; heuristics; genetic algorithms.

Select archival publications:

  • Denton, B., Miller, A., Balasubramanian, H., and Huschka, T., Optimal allocation to surgery blocks to operating rooms under uncertainty, accepted in Operations Research.
  • Berg,B. , Nelson, H., Denton,B.,Balasubramanian, H., Rahman, A., Bailey, A., and Lindor, K., A discrete event simulation model to evaluate the operational performance of a colonoscopy suite, in press in Medical Decision Making.
  • Balasubramanian, H., Fowler, J., Keha, A. and Pfund, M., Scheduling interfering job sets on parallel machines, European Journal of Operational Research, forthcoming.
  • Pfund, M., Balasubramanian, H., Fowler, J., Mason, S., and Rose, O., A multicriteria approach to scheduling wafer fabrication facilities, Journal of Scheduling, 11 (1), 2008, 29-47.
  • Mohan, S., Gopalakrishnan, M., Balsubramanian, H., and Chandrashekar, A., A log- normal approximation of activity duration in PERT using two time estimates, Journal of the Operational Research Society Vol 58, Number 6, 827-831, 2007.
  • Monch, L., Balasubramanian, H., Fowler, J., and Pfund, M., Heuristic scheduling of jobs on parallel batch machines with incompatible job families and unequal ready times, Computers and Operations Research, Vol 32 (11), 2005, 2731-2750.
  • Balasubramanian, H., Monch, L., Fowler, J.W., and Pfund, M.E., Genetic Algorithm based scheduling of parallel batch machines with incompatible job families to minimize total weighted tardiness, International Journal of Production Research, Vol 42 (8), 2004.
  • Ponnambalam, S., Balasubramanian, H., Kataria, M., and Gadicherla, A., A TSP-GA multi-objective algorithm for flow-shop scheduling, International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Vol 23, 2004, 909-915.

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