N. AnbazhaganN. Anbazhagan is currently working as a Professor and Head, Department of Mathematics, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, India. He holds M. Sc., M. Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in Mathematics. He had his primary education at V.M. Government Higher SecondarySchool, Periyakulam. He obtained his Undergraduate and Postgraduate degrees in Mathematics from Cardamom Planters Association College, Bodinayakanur. He obtained his M.Phil. degree in the year 1996 and Ph. D. degree in the year 2002 under the guidance of Professor G. Arivarignan from Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai. He was a recipient of USRF of Madurai Kamaraj University and Project Fellowship in a UGC funded Major Research Project. He started his journey as Lecturer in Mathematics at Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai and later joined as a Reader in Mathematics at Alagappa University, Karaikudi. He has received “Young Scientist Award (2004)” from DST, New Delhi, “Young Scientist Fellowship (2005) from TANSCST, Chennai, “Career Award for Young Teachers(2005) from AICTE, New Delhi, Sri P. K. Das Memorial Best Faculty Award (2013) from Nehru Group of Institutions, Coimbatore, Research Award (2014) from UGC, New Delhi, Outstanding Researcher Award (2017) received from International Institute of Organized Research (I2OR), Chandigarh, India, Tamilnadu Scientist Award (2017) received from Tamilnadu State Council for Science and Technology, Chennai, Excellence Award (2018) received from Association of Inventory Academicians and Practitioners, New Delhi. He has investigated three research projects, funded by DST, NBHM, and UGC. He presented his work in the conferences held at Malaysia (2006) and Switzerland(2007), delivered an invited talk in the International conferences held at Thailand (2017), Singapore (2019) and Malaysia (2018 and 2019) and visited Germany (2006) for doing a collaborative research with Professor A. Irle, Department of Mathematics, University of Kiel, Kiel. Having 22 years of research experience in the field of Stochastic Process Modeling, his current research interests include Inventory System, Queueing System, Graph theory and Datamining. He has guided nine Ph.D. scholars and presently five Ph.D. scholars are pursuing research under his guidance. He has 109 research papers in international journals, two in national journals and eight in the National/International conference proceedings. He has authored one edited book entitled “Stochastic Processes and Models in Operations Research” IGI Global USA, and also contributed four chapters in three different edited books. He has presented 17 research papers in the various National / International conferences and delivered 120 invited lectures in various National / International conferences. He has organized four International and six National level seminars. He has collaborated and published articles with eminent Professors Mark Goh, National University of Singapore, Singapore, A. Irle, University of Kiel, Germany, Jinting Wang, Beijing Jiaotong University, China, V.S.S. Yadavalli, University of Pretoria, South Africa, Xiao Zhi Gao, Aalto University, Finland, Sivasankarappa Arun, Middle East College, Oman, Leonid Smalov, Coventry University, United Kingdom at the International level and A. Krishnamoorthy Department of Mathematics, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kerala, S. Arunkumar, VIT University, Vellore at the National level. Currently he is holding headship of Department of Mathematics, Chairperson of School of Mathematics, Special Officer(Projects) and Member of Board of Studies, Senate and Standing Committee on Academic Affairs of Alagappa University. He is a coordinator of University Business Collaboration Centre from 2019, Coordinator of UGC- SAP program (2016-21), Coordinator of DST-FIST(level-I) program(2021-26) He has held many academic assignments like Member of Board of Studies, Question paper setting, Inspection Commission, Staff Selection Board, Doctoral Committee, Evaluation of Ph.D. thesis of various Universities/Institutions. He is a life member of different professional bodies such as FATER Academy of India, Indian Society for Probability and Statistics, Indian Science Congress Association, Indian Society of Technical Education and International Association of Engineers, Hongkong. Dr. N. Anbazhagan’s research contributions have more than 960 citations. His h-index is 18 and i10 - index is 30 according to Google Scholar Citation Report. He is an editorial board member of the journals American Journal of Mathematics and Statistics and Cogent Business & Management and acting as a reviewer of many journals such as International Journal of System Sciences, Neural Computing Applications, Simulation Modeling and Practice. He was a Chief Editor of a special issue of the journal Mathematical Modeling and Applied Computing. Read More Read Less