Ravi has been at the Tepper School of Business since 1995 where he served as the Associate Dean for Intellectual Strategy from 2005-2008, and Chair of the Future Educational Delivery Committee that launched the online hybrid Tepper MBA in 2013. Ravi's main research interests are in algorithms for combinatorial optimization, and their applications in the intersection of business and technology. Ravi is interested in networks and their effects in business, a subject on which he introduced a new MBA class. He is also interested in customer-centric marketing and how to accomplish this using optimization methods on large data sets, on which he co-developed another new MBA class and co-wrote a book. On the academic side, Ravi's research has been continually supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation since 1995; In this period, he has supervised over a dozen doctoral students and developed over half a dozen new graduate classes. He currently serves as area editor for the INFORMS flagship journal Operations Research in charge of the discrete optimization area.

Research
Models, methods and applications of discrete optimization.

Awards and Honors
Tepper School of Business - George Leland Bach Award for Excellence in the MBA Classroom (2013)
Carnegie Bosch Institute - Carnegie Bosch Chair (2006)
NSF - CAREER Award (2006)