Rate My Professor Sri Talluri

Sri Talluri is the Hoagland-Metzler Endowed Chair Professor and Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management in the Department of Supply Chain Management at Michigan State University’s Eli Broad College of Business. He received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from India in 1989, M.S. in Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering in 1992, and Ph.D. in Production and Operations Management in 1996 from the University of Texas at Arlington. Professor Talluri has over 25 years of teaching experience, delivering undergraduate and graduate courses in supply chain management, operations management, operations research, management science, and statistics. He has been at Michigan State University for more than 25 years, contributing significantly to the academic community through research leadership and doctoral program faculty involvement.

His research focuses on supply chain risk and resilience, buyer-supplier relationships, supply contracts, sustainability in supply chains, and performance evaluation, utilizing optimization methods including deterministic and stochastic models, game theory, empirical statistical models, and data envelopment analysis. Key publications include 'A Review of the Existing and Emerging Topics in the Supply Chain Risk Management Literature' (Decision Sciences, 2020), 'Coordinated Pricing Analysis with the Carbon Tax' (Decision Sciences, 2017), and 'Disruptions in Supply Networks: A Probabilistic Risk Assessment Approach.' His scholarship has exceeded 11,000 citations with an h-index of 48 as of 2021, earning rankings among the top researchers worldwide in operations management and data envelopment analysis. Professor Talluri's work has been funded by Dow Chemical, Lear Corporation, CIBER, McNeil Healthcare, and the Center for Advanced Purchasing Studies. Major awards include Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute (2019), Fulbright-Hanken Distinguished Chair in Business and Economics (2016-2017), Dean's Research Excellence Award (2019), John D. and Dortha J. Withrow Endowed Emerging Scholar Award (2004), and Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society selection (2003). He serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Decision Sciences Journal, chaired the 47th Annual Decision Sciences Institute Conference, and was Associate Executive Director for the Production and Operations Management Society (2006-2009). Additionally, he holds an Honorary Professorial Fellow position at the University of Melbourne.