Ravi's research interests are at the intersections of operations/supply chain decisions and the environment. His work interfaces operations management with public policy, strategy, marketing, and industrial ecology, and can be classified into three categories: (1) strategic responses to environmental legislation in supply chains; (2) closed-loop supply chain management, and (3) market value of environmental efforts and greenwashing.

Ravi’s work has been published in Journal of Industrial Ecology, Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, and Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, and has been cited by articles in Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Forbes, Reuters, and Yahoo Finance, among others. A paper based on his dissertation research won the second prize at the 2004 INFORMS MSOM student paper competition.

Ravi currently teaches the core operations management course in the full-time and evening MBA programs at the College of Management, Georgia Tech. He has prior business experience in operations strategy, supply chain management, manufacturing planning, and ERP implementation. He is also currently engaged in collaborative work with UrjaNet, which is a Georgia Tech Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) startup offering solutions in the Energy domain.