Research Staff

CV/Biosketch

Sirisha NukalaSirisha Nukala
Ph.D., Industrial and Information Engineering
(T) 865.576-5397
nukalas@ornl.gov

Specialty Research Areas:

  • Air Cargo Security
  • Supply Chain Management and marketing
  • Statistics and Modeling
  • Pricing Strategy and Game Theory
  • Operations

Current or Recent Work:

  • Air Cargo Explosives Detection Pilot Program
  • Air Cargo Screening Cost Estimation

Significant Publications:

S. Nukala, P.K.V.V. Nukala, F. Guess, and S. Simunovic, "Crack cluster distributions in random fuse model", Physical Review E 2006

Yang, Byoung-Hak, Adedeji Badiru, and Sirisha Saripalli, "A Facility Resource Scheduling for Two-Stage Supply Chain," Journal of the Korean Institute of Plant Engineering, Vol. 10, No. 1, 2005, pp. 67-78.

Highlights

New version of Freight Analysis Framework released
The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) released its new version of the Freight Analysis Framework, the most comprehensive publicly available data set of freight movement. This tool is developed for FHWA by CTA.

Vehicle Technologies Program Fact of the Week
The Vehicle Technologies Program Fact of the Week provides statistical information on vehicle sales, fuel economy and transportation trends.

2011 Annual Fuel Economy Guide is released
DOE and EPA released the 2011 Fuel Economy Guide, providing consumers with information about estimated mileage and fuel costs for model year 2011 vehicles.

Transportation Energy Data Book: Edition 30 . . .
One of ORNL's most requested documents, this data book details transportation-related energy use in the U.S.