Education

  • Ph.D., Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, August 2007; Thesis title: Pricing and Disposal Decision Models for Product Recovery Facilities

 

  • M.S., Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, September 2002

 

  • B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India, June 1999

 

Awards/Honors

·        Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Northeastern University, 2006.

·        Outstanding Research Associate Award, Lab of Responsible Manufacturing, Northeastern University, 2003.

·        Lead contributor in a proposal which was awarded $300,000 by the National Science Foundation, 2007.

·        Honorable mention in the Student Paper Contest at the 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and Environment.

·        Invited participant for the Doctoral Consortium held at the 2003 Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference, Atlanta, GA.

·        Member of Alpha Pi Mu and Phi Kappa Phi honorary societies, 2001 – Present.

·        Stipended Graduate Assistantship, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department, Northeastern University, 2000–2007.

·        Industrial Engineering Department lead in Graduate Engineering Bridges, a graduate student body at Northeastern University, 2004 – 2005.

 

Research Interests

·         Pricing and Revenue Management

·         Inventory Management in Product Recovery

·         Managing Closed-Loop Supply Chains

·         RFID Technologies for Product Recovery

·         Multi-Agent Systems in Manufacturing Systems

Publications

 

Journal Papers

  1. S. Vadde, S. V. Kamarthi, S. M. Gupta, “Optimal Pricing of Reusable and Recyclable Components under Alternative Product Acquisition Mechanisms,” International Journal of Production Research, vol. 45, no. 18-19, pp. 4621-4652, 2007.
  2. S. Vadde, S. V. Kamarthi, I. Zeid, “Price Decisions in a Multi-Criteria Setting for Product Recovery Facilities”, in review at Omega: International Journal of Management Science, 2008.
  3. S. Vadde, S. V. Kamarthi, “Effective Pricing of Inventories Facing Obsolescence in Reuse Markets,” in review at International Journal of Production Economics, 2007.
  4. S. Vadde, S. V. Kamarthi, “Optimal Disposal Decisions under Predetermined Price Policies,” Working paper, 2008.
  5. S. Vadde, S. V. Kamarthi, “Optimal Prices and Disposal Quantities for Product Recovery Facilities”, Working paper, 2008.

Conference Papers

Pricing and Disposal Decision Models

1.      S. Vadde, S. V. Kamarthi, I. Zeid, “Pricing Remanufactured Products under Stochastic Demand and Backlogging,” Proceedings of IDETC/CIE 2008; ASME 2008 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Brooklyn, New York, Aug 2008.

2.      S. Vadde, S. V. Kamarthi, S. M. Gupta, “Competition to Acquire and Sell between Two Product Recovery Facilities,” Annual Conference of Production and Operations Management Society, May 2007.

3.      S. Vadde, S. V. Kamarthi, S. M. Gupta, “Disposal Decisions under Predetermined Pricing Policies,” Northeast Decision Sciences Institute Annual Conference, March 2007.

4.      S. Vadde, S. V. Kamarthi, S. M. Gupta, “Price Decisions in a Multi-Criteria Setting using Genetic Algorithms,” Proceedings of SPIE Optics East, vol. 6385, October 2006.

5.      S. Vadde, S. V. Kamarthi, S. M. Gupta, “Determination of Optimal Prices for End-of-Life Items from a Discrete Set,” Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Operations and Quantitative Management, CD-ROM, August 2006.

6.      S. Vadde , S. V. Kamarthi, S. M. Gupta, “Pricing End-of-Life Items with Obsolescence,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Electronics and Environment, pp. 156-160, May 2006.

7.      S. Vadde, S. V. Kamarthi, S. M. Gupta, “Pricing End-of-Life with Inventory Constraints,” Proceedings of the Annual Conference of Production and Operations Management Society, CD-ROM, April 2006.

8.      Srikanth Vadde, Sagar V. Kamarthi, and Surendra M. Gupta, “Pricing of End-of-Life Items”, Proceedings of SPIE conference on Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing, Optics East, Vol. 5997, October 2005.

Smart Sensors and Multi-Agent Systems

  1. S. Vadde, S. V. Kamarthi, N. M. Berry, "Smart Sensors in a Flow-Line Manufacturing System: An Agent-Based Simulation", Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Knowledge Intense Multi-Agent Systems (KIMAS), Waltham, MA, pp. 635-640, 2005.
  2. C. Cui, S. Vadde, S. V. Kamarthi, S. M. Gupta, "Dynamic Group Maintenance Policy in a Smart Sensor Integrated Flow-Line Manufacturing System", Proceedings of the Northeast Decision Sciences (NEDSI) Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, CD-ROM, 2005.
  3. Srikanth Vadde, Sagar V. Kamarthi, Surendra M. Gupta, Ibrahim Zeid, “Sensor Embedded Computers for Better Life Cycle Management”, Proceedings of SPIE conference on Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing, Optics East, vol. 5583, pp. 256-263, October 2004.
  4. Kishore K. Pochampally, Srikanth Vadde, Sagar V. Kamarthi and Surendra M. Gupta, "Beyond Sensor-Assisted Diagnosis of Used Products", Proceedings of SPIE conference on Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing, Optics East, vol. 5583, pp. 138-146, October 2004.
  5. Srikanth Vadde, Sagar V. Kamarthi, Surendra M. Gupta, “Modeling of Smart Sensor Integrated Manufacturing Systems”, Proceedings of SPIE Photonics East, vol.5263, pp.30-37, October 2003.

Reverse Engineering and Free-Form Modeling

  1. Srikanth Vadde, Sagar V. Kamarthi, Surendra M. Gupta, “Multi-scale Registration Algorithm for Alignment of Meshes”, Proceedings of SPIE Photonics East, vol.5263, pp.113-119, October 2003.
  2. Srikanth Vadde, Sagar V. Kamarthi, Surendra M. Gupta, "Alignment of Meshes Using Gaussian Curvature", Proceedings of Industrial Engineering Research Conference (IERC), Portland, Oregon, CD-ROM, 2003.
  3. Stefan Pittner, Kishore K. Pochampally, Srikanth Vadde, Sagar V. Kamarthi, "Intelligent Triangulations which approximate 3D Points for Production Purposes", Proceedings of Artificial Neural Networks in Intelligent Engineering Systems (ANNIE), vol. 11, pp. 945-950, 2001.

Book Chapters

1.      S. Vadde, S. V. Kamarthi, and S. M. Gupta, “Product Life Cycle Monitoring via Embedded Sensors”, Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing (Eds. S. M. Gupta, A. J. D. Lambert), CRC Press, 2007.

Links of Interest

www.sciam.com

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www.coe.neu.edu

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