Saravanan Venkatachalam

Saravanan Venkatachalam is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Wayne State University. His research focuses on stochastic programming, robust optimization, and discrete event modeling with applications to supply chain management, healthcare, energy systems, and unmanned vehicle operations.

• Education
• Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering, Texas A&M University
• M.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering, Texas A&M University
• B.E. in Production Engineering, PSG College of Technology, India

His work addresses decision-making under uncertainty through decomposition algorithms and data-driven approaches. Recent projects include autonomous vehicle path planning with uncertain parameters, community-aware electric vehicle charging networks, and optimization models for radio advertisement placements.

Current research trends emphasize stochastic programming for resource allocation in dynamic environments, robust optimization for transportation and energy systems, and multi-vehicle routing under uncertainty.

He has supervised multiple graduate students in thesis work related to optimization models and taught core courses such as Operations Research, Deterministic Optimization, and Stochastic Programming at both undergraduate and graduate levels.