Department of Industrial Engineering

Faculty of Engineering

Uday Venkatadri

Department Head; Professor

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Department of Industrial Engineering

Email: uday.venkatadri@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-3987
Mailing Address: 
Industrial Engineering
PO BOX 15000
Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
 
Research Topics:
  • Facilities Planning and Design
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Production Planning and Control
  • Industry 5.0
  • Mixed Integer Linear Programming
  • Big Data Analytics
  • Machine Learning
  • Artificial Intelligence

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  • Ph.D: Purdue University (Industrial Engineering)
  • MS: Clemson University (Industrial Engineering)
  • B.Tech: Indian Institiute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (Mechanical Engineering)

Biography

Uday Venkatadri, Ph.D., P.Eng., is a Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering at ±«Óătv University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He has taught at ±«Óătv University since July 2001. Before joining ±«Óătv, he was a Lead Architect for supply chain planning products at Baan. He has also worked as a Research Associate at UniversitĂ© Laval in QuĂ©bec City.

Uday's research interests are in facilities planning and supply chain management. He teaches courses in these areas as well as in operations research, modeling of industrial systems, information systems, algorithms, and quality control.

Selected Awards and Honours:

  • 2021: Teaching award by the Logistics and Supply Chain Division of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers. This award is a significant international recognition.
  • 2016: Best Teacher of the Year award, Department of Industrial Engineering, ±«Óătv University
  • 2004: Best Teacher of the Year award, Department of Industrial Engineering, ±«Óătv University
  • 1991 through 1993: Summer David Ross Fellowship awarded by Purdue University excellence in teaching
  • August 1987 to August 1990: David Ross Fellowship awarded by Purdue University for Ph.D. work on Dynamic Layouts of Manufacturing Systems
  • May 1988: Institute of Industrial Engineer's General Motors First Place Master's thesis award for the thesis "Layout of a Group Technology Manufacturing Cell"

Accreditations and Affiliations

  • Senior Member of IIE, the Institute of Industrial Engineers
  • Member of Engineers Nova Scotia
  • Member of the Canadian Operational Research Society, CORS
  • Academic Member of CICMHE (2007-2011)

Research Contributions

The long-term objective of my research to investigate design, planning, and control issues in production and distribution systems in the era of Industry 5.0 and Hyperconnected Logistics. I use Mixed Integer Linear Programming as the cornerstone of my methodological approach, while keeping up with trends in big data analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence.

Peer Reviewed Journal Publications (recent, * indicates a student or postdoc)

  1. Banu Y. Ekren, Uday Venkatadri, Fabio Sgarbossa and Eric H. Grosse (2026), “Warehousing 5.0 for the future of the logistics industry,” International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 64, No.5, pp. 1587–1597.
  2. Hani Pourvaziri, Uday Venkatadri, Sadan Kulturel-Konak, Hamid Afshari, Hassan Sarhadi, and Majid Taghavi (2025), “Multi-Objective Design of the Material Handling System in Zone-Based Job Shop Manufacturing Environments using Supervised Machine Learning,” International Journal of Production Research, Available online at https://doi.org /10.1080/00207543.2026.2650515
  3. Paul Jobinpicard*, Uday Venkatadri, Claver Diallo and Ahmed Saif (2025), “A Decision Support Tool to Optimize Natural Gas Storage and Trading Operations with Inventory Ratcheting and Price Uncertainty,” International Journal of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Vol. 11, No.  206, Available online at
  4. Ryan O’Neil*, Abdelhakim Khatab, Uday Venkatadri, Claver Diallo and Nidhal Rezg (2025), “Optimising vertical deliveries with integrated hybrid drone-truck systems,” International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 63, No. 23, pp. 9200–9228, Available online at
  5. Farshid Damirchilo, *Hani Pourvaziri, Ramazan Şahin and Uday Venkatadri (2024), “Unequal area facility layout problem considering transporters interaction– a queuing theory and machine learning approach,” International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing, Vol. 38, No. 9, pp. 1246–1277 1–32, Available online at
  6. Sima Ghayebloo, Uday Venkatadri, Claver Diallo, Christian N. Samuel*, and Mir Saman Pishvaee (202), “Progress in Closed-Loop Supply Chain Research: Review Focused on Uncertainty, Carbon Emissions, Greenness Index, and Returns Quality/Reliability,” Sustainability, Vol. 16, No. 21,
  7. Alireza Amjadian*, Ryan O'Neil*, Abdelhakim Khatab, Jing Chen, Uday Venkatadri, and Claver Diallo (2025), “Optimising resource-constrained fleet selective maintenance with asynchronous maintenance breaks,” International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 63, Iss. 7,
  8. Tri-Dung Nguyen*, Uday Venkatadri, Tri Nguyen-Quang, Claver Diallo, Duc-Huy Pham, Huu-Thanh Phan, Khai Le, Phu-Cuong Nguyen, Michelle Adams (2024), “Stochastic modelling frameworks for dragon fruit supply chains in Vietnam under uncertain factors,”, Sustainability, 16(6),
  9. *Gurunathan Anandh, Shanmugam Prasanna Venkatesan, Uday Venkatadri, Mark Goh, and Sathwik Veluguleti (2024), “A bi-objective optimization of end-of-life laptop remanufacturing under quality grading of returned parts,” Journal of Soft Computing, Vol. 28, No. 17, pp. 9433-9454, Available online at
  10. *Meet Patel, Uday Venkatadri, Claver Diallo, Muhammad Ahsan Habib, and *Amirsalar Malekahmadi (2024), “Adaptive Sequential Optimization Decision Making Approach to Procurement, Storage and Distribution of Perishable Food Items to Fast-Food Chain Restaurants at Regional Level in the Era of Hyperconnected Logistics,” Sustainability, 16(1), 98;
  11. Hamzea Al-Jabouri, Ahmed Saif, Abdelhakim Khatab, Claver Diallo & Uday Venkatadri (2023), “A critical review of selective maintenance for mission-oriented systems: challenges and a roadmap for novel contributions,” International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 62, Iss. 3, pp. 4980-5015 DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2023.2270689
  12. *Emad Sadoon, Uday Venkatadri, and Alireza Ghasemi (2023), “A Framework for Logistics Management in the Clinical Trials Industry: An Extension of the State-of-the Art Using Contemporary Software Architectures and Tools,” Logistics, 7(4), 88;
  13. *Cecil Ash, Uday Venkatadri, Claver Diallo, and Peter Vanberkel (2023), “Stochastic and Robust PPE Supply Optimization Under Risks of Disruption from the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Canadian Provincial Healthcare Perspective,” Operations Research Forum, Vol. 4 (2), Available online at
  14. *Ryan O’Neil, Abdel Hakim Khatab, Claver Diallo and Uday Venkatadri (2023), “Optimal joint maintenance and orienteering strategy for complex mission-oriented systems: A case study in offshore wind energy,” Computers and Operations Research, Vol. 149, Available online at
  15. *Abolfazl Gharaei, Claver Diallo, and Uday Venkatadri (2023), Optimal Sustainable Economic Growing Quantity with Reproducible Items and Profitable Byproducts under Carbon Emission Considerations, Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 374, Available online at

Teaching Experience

Undergraduate

IENG 3305: Computational Methods and Algorithms for Industrial Engineering 
IENG 3311: Modelling and Design of Industrial Systems 
IENG 3316: Design of Information Management Systems 
IENG 3344: Operations Research: Linear Models 
IENG 4443: Quality Control and Reliability 
IENG 4445: Operations Research: Stochastic and Nonlinear Models 
IENG 4445: Facilities Design
IENG 4454: Design of Inventory Systems
IENG 4574: Computer Integrated Manufacturing
IENG 4579: Supply Chain Management
IENG 4581 X/Y: Industrial Engineering Design Project 

Graduate

IENG 6908: Advanced Facilities Planning
IENG 6909: Supply Chain Management
IENG 6912: Introduction to Operations Research 
IENG 6990: Directed Studies in Industrial Engineering I 
IENG 7990: Directed Studies in Industrial Engineering II 
IENG 9000: Master's Thesis/Project 
IENG 9530: PhD Thesis 
PETR 6030: Natural Gas ReservoirsÂ