Venkata S.S. Yadavalli is a Professor and Acting Head of Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, at University of Pretoria, South Africa.  

He attracted several research projects from the National Research Foundation, and industry.  He was past Vice-President and President of Operations Research Society of South Africa.

He has published over 150 research papers in these areas.  He published articles in various national and international journals including, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Applied Mathematics and Information Sciences,  Computers & Industrial Engineering, Stochastic Analysis and Applications, International Journal of Systems Science, International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Production Research, Applied Mathematics & Computation, etc.

He is in the editorial board of various national and international journals. He is a Fellow of the South African Statistical Association.

He received various awards from various professional bodies like IEOM (Industrial Engineering & Operations Management, USA), South African Institute of Industrial Engineers, South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy etc. for his contributions towards research.

He currently teaches Operations Research and Reliability Engineering, at under graduate and post-graduate level respectively.

Research Interests:

Stochastic modeling towards, Reliability, Queuing, Inventory, Manpower planning systems Finance and Biological systems

Teaching duties:

BON 410 : Operations Research

BTH 780 : Reliability Engineering

BCS 780 : Research Project

BPJ 410/420: Final year Project