Karthik Sankaranarayanan
PhD

Assistant Professor

Management Science and Quantitative Methods
Faculty of Business and Information Technology

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Certificate in University Teaching Ontario Tech University 2016
PhD in Economics University of Lugano, Switzerland 2011
Master of Science in Embedded Systems Design (Minor: Management) University of Lugano, Switzerland 2006
Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics Engineering University of Madras, India 2001

Refereed conference proceedings:

Sankaranarayanan K., Delgado-Alvarez C. A., Larsen E. R. and van Ackere A. (2012). Study on queuing behavior in a multichannel service facility using experimental methods. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems (ICORES), Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal.
Delgado-Alvarez C.A., Sankaranarayanan K. and van Ackere A. (2011). Modelling decisions under uncertainty in a behavioural queuing system. Proceedings of the 25th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, ECMS 2011.
Delgado-Alvarez C.A., van Ackere A., Larsen E.R. and Sankaranarayanan K. (2011). Collective Behavioural Patterns in a Multichannel Service Facilities System: a Cellular Automata Approach. Proceedings of the 12th INFORMS Computing Society Conference, ICS 2011.
Sankaranarayanan K., Larsen E.R., van Ackere A. and Delgado C. (2010). Genetic Algorithm based Optimization of an Agent Based Queuing System. The IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, IEEM 2010, Macau, China.
K. Sankaranarayanan, Larsen E.R., van Ackere A. (2009). Intelligent agents behavior in the Queuing Process: Integrating Cellular Automata and Genetic Algorithms. The IEEE International Conference in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, IEEM 2009, Hong Kong.

Presentations:

1st International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems (ICORES) 2012, Vilamoura, Portugal, 2012.
IEEE 3rd International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation, 2011, Mumbai, India.
IEEE Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, 2010, Macau, China.
Student Conference in Operational Research (SCOR) 2010, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.
IEEE Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, 2009, Hong Kong.
Management and Organization Research Seminar (MORSE), 2009, University of Lugano, Switzerland.
SCOR 2009, Lancaster University Management School, United Kingdom.
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Annual Meeting 2008, Washington, D.C.

K. Sankaranarayanan, C.A. Delgado, E.R. Larsen, and A. van Ackere (2014). The Micro-Dynamics of Queuing: Understanding the formation of queues, Journal of Simulation, vol. 8 no. 4, pp. 304-313.
J. Moretz, K. Sankaranarayanan, and J. Percival (2013). Reinventing The Wheel: Contextualizing Existing Innovations As A Path To Market Success, Technology Innovation Management Review, 3(10): 16-21.
K. Sankaranarayanan, C.A. Delgado, E.R. Larsen, and A. van Ackere (2012). Behavioural queuing: an agent based modeling approach, International Journal of Modeling and Optimization, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 408-412.
Kavitha Sankaranarayanan, R.P. Ramachandran, R. Kumas, S. Muralitharen, U.S. Mansoor, M. Sriram Kumar, V. Mandan Kumar, S. Vignesh, V. Malini, K.M. Cherian, S. Madhivanan, Sankaranarayanan Karthik, Natarajan Arutselvan, Sundararajan Raji (2011). Effective electro-chem-therapy for proliferation control of adult human mesenchymal stem cells. Journal of Electrostatics, vol. 69, no. 4, pp. 267-274.

C.A. Delgado, A. van Ackere, E.R. Larsen, and K. Sankaranarayanan (2011). Collective behavioural patterns in a multichannel service facilities system: a cellular automata approach, In Operation Research, Computing, and Homeland Defense, R.K. Wood and R.F. Dell, editors, INFORMS, Hanover, MD, pp. 16-27. ISBN: 978-0-9843378-1-1.

F. Filho, K. Sankaranarayanan, and P. Mirza-Babaei (2015). Video Games to the rescue: Can game design make software based lab experiments engaging? 7th IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Games, Entertainment, Media Conference (accepted).
K. Sankaranarayanan, C. A. Delgado, E.R. Larsen, and A. van. Ackere (2012). Study on queuing behavior in a multichannel service facility using experimental methods, In Proceedings of the 1st International conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems, ICORES 2012, Vilamoura, Portugal, 142-149. Portugal: SciTePress, ISBN: 978-989-8425-97-3.
C.A. Delgado, A. van Ackere, E.R. Larsen, and K. Sankaranarayanan (2011). Modelling decisions under uncertainty in behavioural queuing system, In Proceedings of the 25th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Krakow, Poland, June 7 to 10, 34-40. ISBN: 978-0-9564944-2-9 / ISBN: 978-0-9564944-3-6 (CD).
K. Sankaranarayanan, E.R. Larsen, A. van Ackere, and C. A. Delgado (2012). Genetic Algorithm based Optimization of an Agent Based Queuing System, In Proceedings of the IEEE Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management Conference, IEEEXplore Digital Library, 1344-1348.
K. Sankaranarayanan, E.R. Larsen, and A. van Ackere (2009). Intelligent Agents Behavior in the Queuing Process: Integrating Cellular Automata & Genetic Algorithms, In Proceedings of the IEEE Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management Conference, IEEEXplore ® Digital Library, 2099-2103.

Public Services Health and Safety Association, Toronto, Canada, 2015 (CAD$115,00)
Ontario Tech University STAR (Student Training Assistantship in Research) 2015 (CAD$4,500)
Visiting Scholar- Accepted for this fully-funded competitive program offered by the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Pecs, Hungary, 2015 (100,000 HUF)
Swiss National Science Foundation prospective researcher grant, 2012 (59,600 CHF)