Tiru Arthanari is serving the Department of Information Systems and Operations Management, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, contributing to the research environment. Tiru was awarded the International Anassilaos Award, Renato Calapso Prize for mathematics, at Reggio Calabria, Italy, in 2014. He received the 'Lifetime Achievement Award' from the Operations Research Society of India (ORSI) for outstanding contributions towards the promotion of operations research in India. Tiru was Head of the Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Centre, before moving to New Zealand. He has international recognition for his research showing most statistical problems are essentially constrained optimization problems, from his Wiley classic book, 'Mathematical programming in statistics' (with Y Dodge). Tiru is Fellow and Life Member of the Indian Society for Probability and Statistics and Fellow and Life Member of the Operations Research Society of India. Tiru Arthanari is Adjunct Professor at C.R.

Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science (AIMSCS, Hyderabad, India). He was elected as a corresponding member to the Accademia Peloritana Dei Pericolanti, established in 1729 in Sicily. He received the best paper award in 2016 for his paper published in JAIS. Tiru received the Research Excellence Award 2017 from the Business school. Tiru has published research articles in Discrete Mathematics, Discrete Applied Mathematics, Annals of Operations Research, European Journal of Operations Research, Discrete Optimization, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, International Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Operations & Production Management, Applied Economics, and Quality Engineering, among others.