Baski Balasundaram

Baski Balasundaram

Wilson Bentley Professor of Industrial Engineering & Management

Oklahoma State University

Biography

I received my Ph.D in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2007 and my B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras in 2002. I am primarily interested in solving combinatorial optimization problems modeled on networks and applications of integer programming. This has led me into diverse domains including computational biology, social network analysis, and graph-based data mining, as well as classical areas of operations research like transportation logistics, production-inventory planning, and scheduling.

My research has been sponsored by National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and industry partners. Publications coauthored with my students and other collaborators have appeared in Operations Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing, INFORMS Journal on Optimization, and INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics, among others. I serve on the editorial boards of Networks (Wiley) and Journal of Global Optimization (Springer).

Interests

  • Combinatorial Optimization & Integer Programming
  • Computational Biology & Social Network Analysis
  • Operations Research Applications

Education

  • Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, 2007

    Texas A&M University

  • B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering, 2002

    Indian Institute of Technology-Madras

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Professor

School of Industrial Engineering and Management, Oklahoma State University

Jul 2020 – Present Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA
 
 
 
 
 

Graduate Program Director

School of Industrial Engineering and Management, Oklahoma State University

Jul 2016 – Jun 2019 Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA
 
 
 
 
 

Associate Professor

School of Industrial Engineering and Management, Oklahoma State University

Jul 2013 – Jun 2020 Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA
 
 
 
 
 

Assistant Professor

School of Industrial Engineering and Management, Oklahoma State University

Aug 2007 – Jun 2013 Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA

Current Students

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Recent Publications

Balabhaskar Balasundaram, Yajun Lu, Foad Mahdavi Pajouh (2024). Degree and distance-based clique relaxations. Handbook of Combinatorial Optimization.

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Hao Pan, Yajun Lu, Balabhaskar Balasundaram, Juan S. Borrero (2024). Finding conserved low-diameter subgraphs in social and biological networks. Networks.

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Pouya Ahadi, Balabhaskar Balasundaram, Juan S. Borrero, Charles Chen (2024). Development and optimization of expected cross value for mate selection problems. Heredity. Honourable Mention: Best student-led methodological paper in Heredity for 2024.

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Niloufar Daemi, Juan S. Borrero, Balabhaskar Balasundaram (2024). First passage time interdiction in Markov chains. Operations Research Letters.

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Yajun Lu, Zhuqi Miao, Parisa Sahraeian, Balabhaskar Balasundaram (2023). On atomic cliques in temporal graphs. Optimization Letters.

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