Senior University Lecturer

Education  

PhD, Operations Research, Case Western Reserve University 
MS, Industrial Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison 
BTech (BS), Mechanical Engineering, IIT (Indian Institute of Technology), Madras, India 

Areas of Research

My research is in optimization.  My recent work has been on Network and Graph optimization problems originating in the design of Telecommunication Networks.  I am interested, however, in optimization problems as they arise in different settings.  I have worked on and continue to be interested in problems from areas such as Vehicle Routing, Logistics and VLSI design and also in Complementarity problems.  I am interested in approaching these problems from both a theoretical standpoint (solution structure, existence) as well as a computational standpoint (designing viable algorithms and heuristics).

Consulting 

I have done extensive industrial consulting work.  These have been in the more general area of Operations Research and Management Science, and have involved building models and decision support systems for various business applications like Credit Risk Management.

Selected Publications  

V. Venkateswaran, “Minimizing Max-Indegree,” Discrete Applied Mathematics, No. 143, pp. 374-378 (2004).

M. Kodialam and V. Venkateswaran, “Bandwidth Allocation in Multicast Trees with QoS Constraints,” Intl. Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making, Vol.2, No. 4, (Dec. 2003).

Q.C. Nguyen and V. Venkateswaran, "Implementations of the Goldberg-Tarjan Algorithm," DIMACS Series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, Vol.12 (1993).

V. Venkateswaran, "An Algorithm for the Linear Complementarity Problem with a  P sub 0 - Matrix," SIAM Journal of Matrix Analysis and Applications, Vol.14, No.4 (1993).

V. Venkateswaran, "A Descent Approach to Solving the Complementary Programming Problem," Naval Research Logistics, Vol.38, 679-698 (1991).

R.W. Cottle, J.S. Pang, and V. Venkateswaran, "Sufficient Matrices and the Linear Complementarity Problem," Linear Algebra and Its Applications, Vol.114/115, 231-249 (1989).