College of Business: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Professor of Business Administration and
Director of the Technology Management Program

Ph.D., Management, Purdue University, 1989
M.S., MIS, University of Texas at Dallas, 1986
B.S., Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology at Bombay, 1984

Director, MS in Technology Management Program, University of Illinois, 2005 - Present
Professor of Business Administration, University of Illinois, 2002 - Present
Academic Director MSBA-IM, University of Illinois, 1999-2005
Associate Professor, University of Illinois, 1996-2002
Instructor and Assistant Professor, University of Illinois, 1989-1996

Chhajed, D., Blocher, J. 2008. Minimizing Customer Order Lead-Time in Two Stage Assembly Supply Chain. Annals of Operations Research, 25-52

Chhajed, D., Lowe, T. 2008. Building Intuition: Insights from Basic Operations Management Models and Principles. Berlin-Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.

Chhajed, D., Lowe, T. 2008. The Median Problem. In Chhajed and Lowe (Ed.), Building Intuition: Insights from Basic Operations Management Models and Principles, 101-114. Berlin-Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.

Academic Leadership Fellow, Committee on Institutional Cooperation, 2007-2008
Incomplete List of Excellent Teachers, UIUC, 2001, 2007-2008

Co-Editor, e-Locator, 2000-2006
Associate Editor, INFOR, 1997-2006
Editorial Review Board, International Journal of Operations and Quantitative Management, 1994-2006

Teaches courses in supply chain management and operations management.

Research focuses on decision problems in operations management and operations/marketing interface including logistics, scheduling, and product/process design.