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S. VISWANATHAN

Professor of Operations Management
Cluster Director, Energy Research Institute @ NTU,
Academic Director, EMSc in Sustainability Mgmt.
Nanyang Business School
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639956.

Office: Wee Cho Yaw Plaza, ABS-06-012
Telephone: +65-6790-4798
email: asviswa@ntu.edu.sg
Home Page: https://personal.ntu.edu.sg/asviswa

Education

·        PhD (Operations Research), Case Western Reserve, 1992

·        MS (Management Science) Case Western Reserve, 1990

·        MBA, IIM Calcutta, 1986

·        B.Tech (Mechanical Engineering) IIT, Madras 1984

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Biography

Dr. S. Viswanathan (Vish) is a Full Professor at Nanyang Business School. He also serves as Academic Director of the Executive MSc in Sustainability Management, and as a Cluster Director of the Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N). He has previously served as Associate Dean (Research), Head of the Division of Information Technology & Operations Management (ITOM), Director of the PhD Program, Program Director of MBA specialization in Technology & Operations, Director of the Centre for Business Sustainability and Program Director of MDP@Nanyang.

Vish was a member of the team responsible for the curriculum design and redesign of the full-time MBA into a one-year MBA program. As Head of ITOM, he was involved in developing the initial curriculum for the MSc (Technology Management) segment of the Renaissance Engineering Program. He was the founding Program Director of the NTU-Waseda double MBA program and was involved in developing the curriculum for the NTU-Waseda double MBA and the MBA (Technology & Operations) curriculum. He was also involved in developing the curriculum for the Management Development Program @ NTU, as its Founding Program Director. He also recently championed the program design for the MBA (Business Sustainability) Track. In addition, as Program Director, he has been recently involved in designing the curriculum for several in-company executive programs on Climate and Sustainability and for the NTU Executive MSc in Sustainability Management.

Vish’s teaching interests are in Corporate Sustainability, Decarbonization, and Circular Economy. He currently teaches in the EMBA, IMBA, PMBA, Nanyang Fellows, EMSc, and Executive Programs. He is a regular speaker, panelist, or moderator at industry conferences.

His research interests are in Decarbonization, Life Cycle Analysis, Energy Modelling, Energy Logistics, Inventory Management, Manufacturing Systems, and Optimization. His research has been published in top tier Science, Business, and Engineering journals such as Nature Communications, Applied Energy, Management Science, Operations Research, Production & Operations Management, Journal of Operations Management, IISE Transactions; and other top journals such as International Journal of Production Research, Journal of Cleaner Production, European Journal of Operational Research, Naval Research Logistics, Operations Research Letters, Journal of the Operational Research Society, and International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. He is working on or has worked on several sustainability related grant projects funded by NRF, SFA, LTA and other agencies.

He is serving or has served as Senior Editor, Editorial Board Member, or Associate Editor in top journals such as Decision Sciences, Production & Operations Management, Journal of Operations Management, IEEE Transactions in Automation Science & Engineering, and International Journal of Production Research. He has made several appearances in Who’s who in the World, Who’s Who in Asia, Who’s Who in Finance and Industry and Who’s Who in Science and Engineering lists. He was selected for the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017. He was awarded the prestigious Nanyang Award for Research Excellence in 2010.

Selected Publications

·       Z. Fu, H. Qiu, W. Gu, and S. Viswanathan, (2026) “Renewable Reshapeability and Cost Competitiveness of Locations in Achieving Net-Zero Electricity Supply,” Applied Energy, 417, 127886, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2026.127886.

·       S. Ng, O. Hinrichsen, and S. Viswanathan, (2026) “Contextual Conditions Define Maximum Energy-use Threshold in Low-Carbon Controlled Environment Agriculture for Agri-Food Transformation,” Nature Communications, 17-880, 1-13, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-68631-w.

·       K. Singh and S. Viswanathan, (2026) “Techno-economic modelling of liquid hydrogen tankers: Capex, Opex, scale economies, and emission trade-offs,” International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, v204, 153259, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2025.153259.

·       K. Singh and S. Viswanathan, (2026) “Optimising Multi-Leg Renewable Hydrogen Networks under Deterministic and Stochastic Demand: Scale Economies and Operational Dynamics with BOG,” Renewable Energy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2026.125402.

·       T. M. Peest, N. I. Stellner, R. Lau, S. Viswanathan, D. Garbe, and T. B. Brueck, (2026) “Algae biomass from production to processing - A critical review of technology gaps and the development road ahead,” Forthcoming, Microorganisms.

·       M. Jagannathan, G. Chua, and S. Viswanathan (2025), “Arms-length platform-based approach to logistics alliances for full truck-load delivery between two locations,” Journal of the Operational Research Society https://doi.org/10.1080/01605682.2025.2554750.

·       V. Khanpit, S. Viswanathan, & O. Hinrichsen (2024) “Environmental impact of animal milk vs plant-based milks: Critical review” Journal of Cleaner Production, 449, 141703, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.141703.

·       G. A. Chua, Y. Feng, J. R. L. Senga, S. Viswanathan (2024) “An Efficient Approximation to the Pull Policy for Hybrid Manufacturing and Remanufacturing Systems with Setup Costs ,” Institute of Industrial and System Engineering (IISE) Transactions, 56, 1216-1229, https://doi.org/10.1080/24725854.2023.2253294.

·       J. L. Martin & S. Viswanathan (2023) “Feasibility of Green Hydrogen-Based Synthetic Fuel as a Carbon Utilization Option: An Economic Analysis,” Energies, 16(17), 6399, https://doi.org/10.3390/en16176399.

·       G. A. Chua, A. Ravindran, J. R. L. Senga, and S. Viswanathan, (2023) “Job scheduling for maximum revenue on uniform, parallel machines with major and minor setups and job splitting,” Computers and Industrial Engineering, 178, April 2023, 373-385. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2023.109147.