email: SPathak@uwb.edu
telephone: 425-352-3617
office: UW-2 212
Surya Pathak is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management in the Business Program at University of Washington Bothell. He received his PhD in Interdisciplinary Management of Technology from Vanderbilt University in 2005. Since then he has served as a research and technical lead at the Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education developing next generation network based technologies, and as a Senior Research Associate in the Engineering Management Program and Systems and Decision Making group at Vanderbilt University.
He is currently conducting research in the area of complex adaptive supply networks, decision making under risk and uncertainty, supply network design, supply relationship management, and policy design for large-scale systems. Another research thrust is in Lean Manufacturing where he is investigating the appropriateness of an organization being Lean. He is also co-principal investigator of a research team consisting of faculty members from University of Akron, Ohio and Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN. He is working on contour dissemination methods that may find applicability in various network related applications. In conjunction with the High Performance Manufacturing Project and sustainability research group at UWB, he is working on different aspects of Sustainable supply chains and carbon foot printing.
His methodological orientations include agent-based simulations and cellular automaton models on grid computing infrastructure along with mathematical modeling, robust and reliability-based design optimization, archival data analysis, and game theoretic modeling techniques for investigating policy implications in diverse domains, such as manufacturing and health care supply networks, transportation networks, and super networks. He is a founding member of the Center for Supply Network Science at Arizona State University, at Tempe, Arizona. Dr. Pathak's work has been published or is under consideration in the IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Journal of Operations Management, International Journal of Production Research, Decision Support Systems, Journal of Supply Chain Management, Decision Sciences and Transportation Research Records.