G. Sriram received a B.Tech degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology;
Madras;
India. He is currently a graduate student in the School of Industrial Engineering at Purdue University;
West Lafayette;
IN. He has been a field engineer for Schlumberger and a marketing analyst for First USA Bank;
DE. His research interests are in the areas of facilities layout and design;
supply chain management and multicriteria decision analysis. His work ex perience includes financial service policy analysis and oil well logging and modeling. Mr. Sriram is a member of liE;
INFORMS and POMS;