Bala Shetty

Biography

Dr. Bala Shetty holds the Paula and Steve Letbetter’70 Chair in Business and serves as Executive Associate Dean at Mays Business School. In addition to serving on the faculty of Texas A&M University since 1985, he has held faculty positions at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas and Madrid Business School in Spain. Dr. Shetty also served as a Research Fellow at Princeton University in 1996 and 2008, while on faculty development leave from Texas A&M University.

Dr. Shetty is passionate about providing his students with an outstanding education that will impact their lives and careers. He often says with pride, “I feel fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with so many bright young men and women who will be the next generation of leaders of this country.” Dr. Shetty has received a number of teaching awards at Texas A&M University and Southern Methodist University which speak volumes of his success as a teacher. Dr. Shetty has received the EMBA Outstanding Faculty Award (2008), MBA Outstanding Faculty Award (1998, 2000, 2001, and 2005), Alpha Kappa Psi Undergraduate Teaching Award (1990, 1991), and the prestigious Association of Former Students Teaching Award (2002).

Dr. Shetty’s research interests include supply chain management, optimization, and finance. He has published extensively in such premier journals as Operations Research, Decision Sciences, Naval Research Logistics, IIE Transactions, Networks, Mathematical Programming, OR Letters, ORSA Journal on Computing, Annals of Operations Research, Journal of Operational Research, Computers and IE, Applied Mathematics and Computation, Computers and Operations Research and the European Journal of Operational Research. He served as associate editor for Operations Research, Decision Sciences, and Naval Research Logistics. He has also served twice as a guest editor for the Annals of Operations Research. Dr. Shetty is the recipient of the 1995 Outstanding Research Award at Mays Business School.

Dr. Shetty was a member of the plenary panel on research at the Annual DSI meeting in Hawaii in 1995. He has served as Track Chair, Panel Chair, and Session Chair at numerous national meetings of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science and Decision Sciences. Dr. Shetty has also served as Ph.D. Director, Assistant Department Head, and Head of the Department of Information and Operations Management. More recently he served as Associate Dean of Graduate Programs for Mays Business School.

Education

PhD Southern Methodist University, 1985
MS Southern Methodist University, 1981