Surya D. Pathak
Box 358533, 18115 Campus Way NE, Bothell, WA, 98011 [email protected], (615) 275-8519 EDUCATION
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN May 2005
Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Program in Management of Technology GPA: 3.91/4.0
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN May 2001
M.S. in Electrical Engineering GPA: 3.9/4.0
Pune University, Pune, India July 1999
B.E. in Industrial Electronics Engineering GPA: 4.0/4.0 EMPLOYMENT SUMMARY
• July 2008 – Present, Assistant Professor, Business Program, University of Washington, Bothell, WA.
• December 2006 – July 2008, Vanderbilt University (VU), Nashville, TN
Lecturer (Engineering Management) and SeniorResearch Associate (Civil and Env Engineering)
• May 2005 - December 2006, Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education, VU, TN
Research Associate and Lead Scientist, Lecturer (Engineering Management)
• September 2001 - April 2005, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Research and Teaching Assistant, Instructor
• September 1999 - August 2001, Institute for Software Integrated Systems, VU, TN
Research Assistant
• June 1998 - August 1999, Logic Power, Pune, India
Application Development Engineer
AWARDS AND HONORS
Society of Operations Management, 8th annual conference, best paper award, Mumbai, India,
(2004)
INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences) college of simulation
student award, New Orleans, (2003)
University award for best undergraduate academic performance in industrial electronics
engineering, Pune, India, (1999)
University merit awards for outstanding academic achievement, Pune, India, (1995–1999)
RESEARCH AND RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS
Primary research interests:
Policy design for supply networks
Modeling and simulation of complex adaptive systems, transportation networks Application of grid computing to management problems
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
Pathak SD, Day J, Nair A, Sawaya WJ, and Kristal M, 2007. Complexity and adaptivity in supply
networks: building supply network theory using a complex adaptive systems perspective. Decision Sciences
Journal, vol 38(4), 547-580.
Pathak SD, Dilts DM, and Biswas G, 2007. On the evolutionary dynamics of supply network
topologies. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, vol 54(4), 662-672.
Pathak S.D, Dilts D.M, and Mahadevan S, 2009. Investigating population and topological evolution in
a complex adaptive supply network. Journal of Supply Chain Management, vol 45(3), Wiley-Blackwell, USA.
Pathak SD, McDonald MP, Mahadevan S, 2009. Designing policies for networked systems. Decision
Support System (Conditional Acceptance).
MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW/PREPARATION
Dilts DM and Pathak SD. Paper or Plastic? Importance of supply network policies. Interfaces(In
preparation).
Pathak SD, Pierce J, McDonald MP, Mahadevan S. Analysis of co-opetitive relationship in a
buyer-buyer supply chain dyad. Management Science (In preparation).
Day JM, Pathak SD. Supply Network Co-opetition as an Emergent Phenomenon of Multi-Scale Firm
Objectives. Academy of Management Review (In preparation).
Day J, Kristal M, Pathak SD, and Sawaya WJ. Evolutionary To adapt or not: Is that the question?
Investigating adaptation in a food distribution network. Management Science (In preparation).
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS AND BOOK CHAPTERS
Pathak SD, Pathak SD, Pierce J, McDonald MP, Dilts DM, and Mahadevan S, 2008. To Compete or
Cooperate: Addressing the Reinvestment Dilemma in a Buyer-Buyer Supply Network Dyad. Presented at Decision Science Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD.
Pathak SD, Dilts D.M, 2008. Sustaining relationships: evolutionary competition and cooperation in a
buyer-buyer dyad. Presented at Production and Operations Management Society, annual meeting, San Diego, CA.
Pathak SD, McDonald MP, Mahadevan S, 2007. Modeling of System of System behavior. Presented at
INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA.
Pathak SD, Dilts D.M, 2007. Implications of policy decisions on the evolution of a Healthcare Supply
Network. Presented at Production and Operations Management Society, annual meeting, Dallas, TX.
at Production and Operations Management Society, annual meeting, Dallas, TX.
Pathak SD, Dilts DM, 2006. Investigating evolution in the US healthcare industry. Presented at
Decision Science Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX.
Pathak S.D, Dilts D.M, 2006. Survivability in evolving supply networks. Presented at INFORMS
Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA.
Pathak SD, Tacket AR, McCord KL, 2005. Logistical storage. IEEE Usenix, file and storage
technology (FAST) conference, San Francisco, CA.
Pathak SD, Dilts DM, 2005. Identifying the topologies of supply networks. Production and
Operations Management Society, annual meeting, Chicago, IL.
Pathak SD, Dilts DM, 2004. Complex adaptive supply network simulator, A scenario analysis tool for
analyzing supply networks. Second World Conference on Production and Operations Management and 15th annual POMS Conference, Cancun, Mexico.
Pathak SD, Dilts DM, 2004. Are growth and evolution in supply networks complex adaptive: an
investigation of the Utterback model. Presented at the Decision Sciences Institute Annual meeting in Boston, MA.
Pathak SD, Dilts DM, Biswas G, 2004. Simulating growth dynamics in complex adaptive supply
networks. Presented at the Winter Simulation conference, Washington D.C. forthcoming, in 2007, as a book chapter in “adaptive supply chain networks”, ICFAI University Press, Hyderabad, India.
Pathak SD, Dilts DM, 2004. Managing emergent supply networks. Presented at the 8th annual
conference of the Society of Operations Management, Mumbai, India.
Pathak SD, Dilts DM, 2004. Large scale distributed multi-agent simulation for growing complex
adaptive supply networks. Presented at the INFORMS Annual meeting, Denver, CO.
Pathak SD, Dilts DM, 2003. Multi-paradigm simulator for simulating complex supply networks, 2003.
Poster presented at the Winter Simulation conference, New Orleans, LA, USA. Forthcoming, in 2007, as a book chapter in “adaptive supply chain networks”, ICFAI University Press, Hyderabad, India.
Dilts DM, Pathak SD, 2003. Emergent supply chain networks. Presented at the Decision Sciences
Institute Annual meeting in Washington DC.
Pathak SD, Dilts DM, Biswas G, 2003. A multi-paradigm simulator for simulating complex adaptive
supply chain networks. Presented at the Winter Simulation conference, New Orleans, LA.
Dilts DM, Pathak SD, 2002. Simulating supply networks using complex adaptive systems theory.
Presented at the IEEE International Engineering Management conference, IEEE catalog No 02CH37329, Cambridge, UK.
IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics, Proceedings, CD ROM Reference 00ch37166c, Nashville, TN.
INVITED TALKS AND WORKSHOPS
To Compete or Cooperate: Addressing the challenge of “Coopetition” in Supply Networks,
November 2008. Invited guest talk at University of Houston, Bauer College of Business.
Complexity and Adaptivity in Supply Networks, April 2008. Invited guest talk at Daniels College
of Business, University of Denver.
The emergence of a third paradigm: Agent based modeling and simulation in Operations
Management and Decision Sciences, November 2007. Invited workshop at Decision Sciences annual meeting, Phoenix, AZ
Policies, decision making and managing supply network, March 2007. Talk presented at Arizona
State University, Tempe, AZ
Evolution of Supply Networks: A System of System Perspective, February 2007. Talk presented
at University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
Designing effective supply chains, September, 2006. Talk presented at Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, TN
Managing large scale storage, September, 2006. Talk presented at Lawrence Berkeley National
Lab (LBNL), Berkeley, CA
Computing in the third paradigm, March, 2006. Talk presented at Vanderbilt University,
Nashville, TN
Managing large scale computing, September, 2005. Talk presented at the symposium organized by
Vanderbilt University’s Civil and Environmental Engineering program, Nashville, TN
Discrete event and discrete time modeling of supply networks, Oct, 2004. Talk presented at
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Model based system development, January, 2001. Talk presented at Indian Institute of
Technology, Mumbai, India RESEARCH GRANTS
Advanced Computing Center For Research and Education, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (Summer research grant) $10,700 06/01/04 – 08/31/04
Role: Co-Principal Investigator (70% effort); (David M Dilts, PI)
Title: Large scale distributed multi-agent simulation for growing complex adaptive supply networks Goal: The major goal of this project was to design and implement a large-scale parallel computing
infrastructure to grow and simulate, complex adaptive supply networks using multi-agent based techniques. As a validation we simulated the supply network growth of the US automobile industry over the last 100 years
WORK EXPERIENCE DETAILS Lecturer August 2006-Present
Engineering Management Program, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Course: ENGM 273, Systems Engineering
Description: A senior/graduate level course on Systems Engineering.
Overall teaching effectiveness score: 3.76 on a 5 point scale (Fall2006), NA (Spring 2007)
Research Associate Dec 2006-Present
Systems and Decision Making Group, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Principal Investigator: researching evolving networks in the area of industrial supply networks, military
logistics supply network, healthcare networks and social networks, on a high performance computing grid
Developing agent based models of evolving supply networks. Analyzing supply network behavior with
lyapunov exponent analysis, attractor reconstruction techniques, and granger causality tests
Designing policy optimization frameworks for super networks using stochastic equilibrium models,
agent based models, wavelets based response surface estimation and reliability based design optimization techniques
Research Associate May 2005-Dec 2006
Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Research and development lead on next generation large scale data storage projects for high
performance computing domain using agents and distributed hash- table technologies
Integral part of a world record breaking team at Supercomputing 2005 at Seattle, and Supercomputing
2006 at Tampa Bay, achieving record setting data transfer rates (131.6 Gbits/sec over the LAN and 10 Gigabits/sec over the WAN) using L-Store and other storage technology
Project lead in the Storage Resource Management and Logistical Storage integration project Developed optimized models on a high performance computing grid, using multi-agent systems,
discrete time, discrete event simulation, heuristics and backward looking learning models, increasing efficiency of simulation by 96 %. Characterized growth in the US automobile industry over the last 100 years
Management of Technology Program, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Course: MT 150, Dynamics of Change: Impacts of Technology
Description: Freshman/sophomore course on introduction to Management of Technology
Overall teaching effectiveness score: 4.6 on a 5 point scale
Course: MT 234, Technical Project Management
Description: Senior level course on introduction to technical project management
Overall teaching effectiveness score: 4.40 on a 5 point scale Teaching Assistant September 2002-May 2003
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department and the Management of Technology Program, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.
Course: EECE 218, Microprocessor based programming
Description: Lab course on Motorola 68000/68332 processors
Overall role: Responsible for grading homework assignments and reviewing projects. Also helped students complete their projects
Course: MT 244, Applied Behavioral Science
Description: Senior level course on human behavior in the organization
Overall role: Assisted instructor in grading in class presentations, and homework assignments
Course: MT 251, Finance and Accounting for Engineers
Description: Graduate/senior level courseon introduction to finance
Overall role: Assisted instructor in grading, conducting exams and helping students with projects. Research Assistant August 2001-September 2002
Management of Technology Program, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Developed an agent based modeling framework for modeling complex adaptive supply networks. The
research was conducted under a discovery grant from Futaba Corporation, Japan Research Assistant August 1999-June 2001
Institute for Software Integrated systems, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Designed, developed, and documented a frame work independent graphical agent modeling
environment for modeling agent based systems and tested it for a supply chain problem Application Developer June 1998-June 1999
Logic Power, Pune, India
Developed a microcontroller based advanced power monitoring system for high power industrial
applications. The product was later commercialized and sold in the market Intern November 1997-January 1998
Indian Seamless Steels and Alloys, Jejuri, India
Worked as a maintenance engineer and helped maintain programmable logic controllers for automated
steel manufacturing
SERVICES AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Reviewer for Journal of Supply Chain Management, 2009.
Member of Recruitment Committee (Operations) for 2008-2009, Business Program, University of
Washington, Bothell, WA.
Reviewer for IEEE Transactions in Engineering Management, 2008. Reviewer for IEEE Transactions in Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 2008.
Web administrator, Reliability and Risk Management, National Science Foundation, IGERT Program,
Nashville, TN, 2007
Session Chair, Decision Sciences Institute, annual meeting, San Antonio, TX, 2006 Session Chair, INFORMS, annual meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, 2006
External project supervisor, for senior year undergraduate student in engineering at Victor Jubilee
Technical Institute (VJTI), Mumbai, India, 2006
Participant in the emergent scholar workshop at POMS, Boston, MA, 2006 Reviewer for Decision Sciences Journal, 2006.
Reviewer for Academy of Management Journal, 2004.
Reviewer for Decision Sciences Institute conference, Washington DC 2003, 2004.
Reviewer for European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), Valencia, Spain, 2004
Mentor for undergraduate students in the IGERT multidisciplinary graduate program in Reliability and
Risk Engineering and Management, Nashville, TN, 2003 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) INFORMS, College of Simulation
IEEE, professional member Decision Sciences Institute
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Programming skills: Java, python, C++, C, Visual Basic, HTML, Java Script, Shell Script Packages: SPSS, R, Matlab, Simulink, Mathematica, MadKit, Netlogo
Operating System: Windows, Linux, OSX
OTHER SKILLS
Exposure with NSF grant writing and Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants
with executives, scientists, students and colleagues REFERENCES
David M. Dilts, PhD, Professor of Management, Owen Graduate School of Management, Professor
and Director of Engineering Management Program, School of Engineering, Vanderbilt University, 400 24th Ave. S., Nashville, TN 37212, [email protected], (615) 322-2259
Sankaran Mahadevan, PhD, Joe B. Wyatt distinguished Professor of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering, Director of NSF IGERT Multidisciplinary Graduate Program in Reliability and Risk Engineering and Management Vanderbilt University, 400 24th Ave. S., Nashville, TN 37212, [email protected], (615) 322-3040
Gautam Biswas, PhD, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, School of
Engineering, Associate Director of Center for Intelligent Systems, Vanderbilt University, 400 24th Ave. S., Nashville, TN 37212, [email protected], (615) 343-6204
Austin Cheney, Dean, School of Management and Engineering Technology, Alfred State College
