Mr.K.S.Ravi Shankar is appointed as Senior Advisor in Kilometer.in.

Bangalore, India, 12 December 2013.

Kilometer.in, an innovative cloud based platform for Ride sharing and Carpooling Appoints Mr.K.S.Ravi Shankar as Senior Advisor.

K.S.Ravi shankar is an Entrepreneur, Business Transformation Consultant and a Mentor. He has track record of Setting up and Driving Business Growth/Profitability across companies. He is an Organization builder specialized in Restructuring and Business Turnaround, Marketing, S&D. He is also Mentor to start ups - in scaling and resourcing - technology, talent, customers and funding.

He is a successful serial entrepreneur formed Forbes Technosys Limited and co-founded Woodstock Ambience Pvt Ltd. He has more than 3 decades of experience in various capacities, various industries and in different parts of the world. He served in the boards of Lady Irwin College, Delhi and Forbes Technosys Ltd.

Currently he sits in the board of Iknowvate Technologies and Kaizen Consultancy also advisor at Onus Payment Solutions.

Professor Dr. Dessouky, University of Southern California (www.usc.edu) Appointed as Advisor of kilometer.in, a startup ridesharing and carpooling portal in India.

kilometer.in, an innovative cloud based platform for ridesharing and carpooling appoints Dr. Dessouky as Advisor.

Bangalore, India, 6 December 2013.

Kilometer.in is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Dessouky as Advisor. Maged M. Dessouky, Ph.D., is Professor in the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Director of the Epstein Institute at the University of Southern California. Prior to joining the faculty at USC, Dr. Dessouky was employed at Hewlett-Packard (Systems Analyst), Bellcore (Member of Technical Staff), and Pritsker Corporation (Senior Systems Analyst).

Dr. Dessouky has an in-depth theoretical and practical understanding of models and heuristic methods for transportation system optimization. He is the Principal Investigator of a FHWA-funded project to develop Transportation Market, a distributed system for negotiating routes and prices between consumers and providers of transportation.

His simulation models have been used for capacity analysis of the Southern California rail network. Dr. Dessouky was recipient of the 2007 Transportation Science & Logistics Best Paper Prize and is a Fellow of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE). He has been a principal investigator or co-principal investigator of over 50 funded research projects totaling over 48 million dollars supported by the National Science Foundation, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Caltrans, Federal Transportation Adminstration, Los Angeles County and Department of Defense, among others. This research has led to over 75 refereed journal articles that are either in print or have been accepted for publication in leading journals of the field including IIE Transactions, Transportation Science, Mathematics of Operations Research, ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, IEEE Transactions on ITS, Transportation Research – Part B, and European Journal of Operational Research.

He teaches production and operations research courses both at the undergraduate and graduate level. He has won a number of teaching awards including the IIE OR Teaching Award, USC Associates Award in Teaching (Top University Award for Teaching), and the TRW School of Engineering Teacher of the Year Award. He is area/associate editor of Computers & Industrial Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, and IIE Transactions, on the Editorial Board of Transportation Research Part B: Methodological and Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, previously served as Area Editor of ACM Transactions of Modelling and Computer Simulation. He was Program Chair of the 2003 Industrial Engineering Research Conference.

Dr. Dessouky received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University in 1984 and 1987, respectively. He received a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1992.