Vijay Pandiarajan

Vijay Pandiarajan, PhD, is a faculty member of the Technology and Operations Department at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. He focuses on teaching and researching innovation and technology. Before joining the Ross School faculty, he held leadership positions at various global companies, including Andersen Consulting, Accenture, Verizon, and Whirlpool Corporation. His educational highlights include a Sloan Fellows MBA degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, USA, with a focus on leadership, technology and innovation; a PhD in industrial engineering from the West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA; an MBA from the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh, USA; a master’s degree in aircraft production engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India; and a bachelor’s degree with honors in mechanical engineering from the University of Madras, India. He built Jaguar fighter planes at Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd., collaborating with British Aerospace, Safran (previously Turbomeca), and Rolls-Royce before pursuing his doctoral studies.