EDUCATION

Ph.D. (Industrial Engineering), University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, March 1983.

M. Tech. (Industrial Management), Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, July 1974.

B.E. (Mechanical Engineering), Osmania University, Hyderabad, India, March 1972.

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Professor, Department of Applied Statistics and Operations Research, Bowling Green State University, (Bowling Green, Ohio), September 1982 - present.

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SELECTED AWARDS

Secured overall first rank in the M. Tech. program at the Indian Institute of Technology, (Madras, Tamil Nadu, India).

Secured overall third rank in the B.E. (Mechanical) program (about 250 students) at Osmania University, (Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India).

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Rao, B. M. and S. Ramakrishnan, Queueing Models for the Performance Evaluation of a File Server with Processor Sharing Discipline, Computing,:Archiv fur informatik und numerik, Volume 57, No. 3, 1996, p.225.

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Rao, B. M., Algorithms for free replacement warranties with phase type Product lifetimes, IIE Transactions, Volume 27, 348-357, 1995.

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Rao, B. M. and S. Ramakrishnan, Models for Performance Evaluation of a Local Area Network, Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, Volume 26, 493-509, 1994.