Recent Advances in Logistics, Supply Chain and Transportation, Volume 2

Dr. V. Madhusudanan Pillai is currently a professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at National Institute of Technology Calicut, Kerala. With more than 33 years of teaching experience and over 170 technical paper publications in international journals and conferences, and editorship of a book, he has developed several teaching laboratory exercises and software packages in the area of manufacturing management and supply chain management. His expertise in the area of developing e-learning tools on supply chain operation simulation has resulted in the development of several supply chain operation simulators and he owns copyright for three such software packages and two patents. He offers courses on manufacturing planning and control, Inventory and supply chain management, lean production management, and group technology.

Dr. Chalumuri Ravi Sekhar is currently working as a chief scientist at Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR)-Central Road Research Institute (CRRI), New Delhi, India. He has an experience of over 24 years in the field of traffic engineering and transportation planning. He graduated in civil engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad and enrolled Master of Engineering in Transportation Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. He received his Doctoral degree from Kobe University, Japan. His research interests include travel time reliability analysis, route choice, and mode choice modeling, intelligent transportation systems (ITS), GPS and GIS applications in transportation engineering, highway geometric design, and applications of soft computing techniques such as artificial neural networks (ANN) in transportation planning.

Dr. Mark Goh currently holds the appointments of Director (Industry Research) at the Logistics Institute-Asia Pacific at the National University of Singapore, a joint venture with Georgia Tech, USA, principal researcher at the Centre for Transportation Research, and was a program director of the Penn-State NUS Logistics Management Program. He also used to be the director of Supply Chain Solutions for Asia/Middle East with APL Logistics. He is also a professor of Management at the University of South Australia. He received his B.Sc. (Hons I) and Ph.D. degrees in Mathematics from the University of Adelaide, Australia. He also holds an MBA from Deakin University, Australia. His current research interest is on buyer-seller relationships, performance measurement, and supply chain strategy.