Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Chandrasekharan Rajendran

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsOperations Management and Computer Science for Business Administration,Production Systems, Operations Management, Quality Management and Factory Planning
KeywordsHeuristics and Analytics, Quality Management, Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, Production and Operations
Honours and awards

2025: Adjunct Professor, IIT Tirupati (after retirement from IIT Madras in 2025)

2025: Distinguished Alumnus, College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University

2018: Fellow of Indian National Academy of Engineering (FNAE)

2017: Dr.rer.pol.h.c. (University of Passau)

2016: Professor & RAGS Family Foundation Institute Chair, IIT Madras

Current contact address

CountryIndia
CityYerpedu
InstitutionIndian Institute of Technology (IIT) Tirupati
InstituteDepartment of Humanities and Social Sciences

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Hans ZieglerWirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Lehrstuhl für Betriebswirtschaftslehre mit Schwerpunkt Fertigungswirtschaft, Universität Passau, Passau
Prof. Dr. Hans ZieglerLehrstuhl für Betriebswirtschaftslehre mit Schwerpunkt Produktion und Logistik, Universität Passau, Passau
Prof. Dr. Marc GoerigkWirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Universität Passau, Passau
Start of initial sponsorship01/04/1996

Programme(s)

1995Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2002Oliver Holthaus, Chandrasekharan Rajendran: A study on the performance of scheduling rules in buffer-constrained dynamic flowshops. In: Int. J. Prod. Res., 2002, 3041-3052
2002Chandrasekharan Rajendran, Hans Ziegler: Two Ant-Colony Algortihms For Minimizing Total Flowtime In Flowshops. In: Proc. of 30th International Conference on Computers & Indursrian Engineering , 2002, 731-736
2001Chandrasekharan Rajendran, Hans Ziegler: A performance analysis of dispatching rules and a heuristic in static flowshops with missing operations of jobs. In: European Journal of Operational Research, 2001, 622-634