PANNEERSELVAM, R.

R. Panneerselvam served as a Professor of Operations and Systems Department of Management Studies at School of Management, Pondicherry University. He possesses a total of 41 years of teaching and research experience at Anna University and Pondicherry University put together. He served as the chairman of Computer Society of India (Pondicherry Chapter) and life member of Indian Institution of Industrial Engineering and Computer Society of India. Prof. Panneerselvam has published more than 100 research articles in leading national and international journals and has authored more than 30 textbooks in Industrial Engineering and management, and Computer Science and Engineering. He also provided consultancy, including an overseas consultancy to CEMS, Malaysia.Professor Panneerselvam received academic excellence award in an international conference on Advances in Industrial Engineering Practices, Best Selling Author Award from PHI Learning Private Limited, Achiever Award from Anna University for outstanding contributions to academics, and Best Teacher award from Pondicherry University. His areas of research interest include Cellular manufacturing, Assembly line balancing, Simulation, Total covering problem, Supply chain management, Ergonomics, Justin-time (JIT) manufacturing, Technology disruption, Decision support system for manufacturing industry, etc.