Ramakrishnan Ramanathan
Professor of Operations Management
University of Bedfordshire
United Kingdom
Biography
Professor Ram Ramanathan is the Director of Business and Management Research Institute, in the Business School of the University of Bedfordshire, Luton, UK. In the past, he has worked and taught in a number of countries, including the UK, Finland, the Netherlands, Oman and India. He has taught basic and advanced courses on Operations Management, Production Systems Management, Supply Chain Management, Optimization Theory, Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA), Management Science, Business Statistics, Simulation, Energy and Environment, Energy and Environmental Economics, Energy and Transport Economics, and others. His research interests include operations management, supply chains, the use of Big Data, Internet of Things and Blockchain technologies for productivity improvement in enterprises and also for social causes, economic and policy analysis of issues in the energy, environment, transport and other infrastructure sectors. He works extensively on modelling using techniques such as optimisation, decision analysis, data envelopment analysis and the analytic hierarchy process.
Research Interest
Operations management, supply chains, the use of Big Data, Internet of Things and Blockchain technologies for productivity improvement in enterprises and also for social causes, economic and policy analysis of issues in the energy, environment, transport and other infrastructure sectors.