Ravi Ahuja

About Ravi Ahuja

I am the Founder and CEO of Optym, a company that specializes in developing optimization and artificial intelligence solutions for the transportation and logistics industry. I have over 24 years of experience in creating and delivering cutting-edge software products that automate and improve complex decision-making processes for railroads, airlines, trucking, and mining companies backed by 20 years of academic research.My passion for optimization and innovation stems from my academic background in industrial and management engineering, where I conducted ground-breaking research, taught at prestigious universities, and coauthored several books and papers on network optimization and its applications. I founded Optym in with the vision of bringing optimization intelligence to the real-world problems of transportation and logistics, and since then I have grown the company to nearly 300 highly educated and talented professionals. My mission is to empower the transportation and logistics industry with the best optimization and AI technologies and solutions that enhance efficiency, profitability, and sustainability.

Experience

1. Founder & CEO

   Optym

   Mar 2000 — Present · Dallas, TX, US

   Responsible for Optym\'s vision of bringing Optimization Intelligence to various industries and the strategy to realize that vision- Working with clients to understand their business need and architecting software products and solutions to meet that need- Working with colleagues to design Optimization Intelligence algorithms to be embedded in Optym\'s software products and solutions- Assisting in business development of Optym\'s software products.

Education

• Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

  M.S., Industrial and Management Engineering

  1977 — 1979

• Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

  B.S., Mechanical Engineering

  1972 — 1977

• Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

  Ph.D., Industrial and Management Engineering

  1979 — 1982