Suresh P. Sethi is Eugene McDermott Chair Professor of Operations Management and Director of the Center for Intelligent Supply Networks (C4ISN) at The University of Texas at Dallas. He has contributed significantly to manufacturing and operations management, finance and economics, marketing, industrial engineering, operations research, and optimal control. He is well known for his developments of the Sethi advertising model, Sethi-Skiba points, and his textbook on optimal control.

He has written 11 books and published over 400 research papers in manufacturing and operations management, finance and economics, marketing, and optimization theory. He teaches an optimal control theory/applications course and organizes a seminar series on operations management topics. He initiated and developed doctoral programs in operations management at the University of Texas at Dallas UTD and the University of Toronto. He built the operations management area of UTD’s Naveen Jindal School of Management into the research powerhouse it is today.

He has received prestigious honors and awards such as IEEE Fellow, INFORMS Fellow, SIAM Fellow, POMS Fellow, AAAS Fellow, IITB Distinguished Alum, Tepper School of Business-Alumni Achievement Award, and POMS President (2012), INFORMS Fellows Selection Committee (2014-16), Alumni Achievement Award, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University (2015).

Two conferences have been organized in his honor: in Aix en Provence in 2005 and at UT Dallas in 2006, with Harry M. Markowitz, a 1990 Nobel Laureate in Economics, as the keynote speaker.

Also, two books have been edited in his honor. Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) has instituted a Suresh Sethi Best Interdisciplinary Paper Award every two years since 2022.

He serves/served on the editorial boards of several journals, including Production and Operations Management, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Operations Research, Optimal Control Applications and Methods, and Journal of Mathematical Analysis & Applications