IIT Kharagpur - Executive Postgraduate Certificate in AI Powered Supply Chain and Operations

Prof. Abhishek Sharma is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at IIT Kharagpur. He holds a PhD in Operations and Supply Chain Management from IIM Rohtak (2020) and a BTech in Chemical Engineering from NIT Srinagar. His research covers behavioural operations, supply chain coordination, supply contracts and closed-loop supply chains. His work has appeared in Computers & Industrial Engineering, the Journal of Cleaner Production and the International Game Theory Review.

Prof. Biswajit Mahanty has more than 35 years of academic and research experience at IIT Kharagpur, plus over six years in industry. He holds a BTech (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering, an MTech in Industrial Engineering and Management (Alumni Gold Medal) and a PhD, all from IIT Kharagpur. His work spans operations research, system dynamics, project management and information systems. He has supervised 24 PhD scholars and published more than 100 journal papers. He has served IIT Kharagpur as Dean (Planning and Coordination), Chief Vigilance Officer and Head of Department. He has also taught as visiting faculty at the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, and sits on the editorial board of Opsearch.

Prof. Jitendra Kumar Jha is Professor and Head of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at IIT Kharagpur. He also chairs the institute’s Centre of Excellence on Safety Engineering and Analytics. He holds a PhD in Industrial and Management Engineering from IIT Kanpur, an MTech in Industrial Management from IIT (BHU) Varanasi and a BSc in Production Engineering from BIT Sindri. His research covers operations research, inventory control, supply chain and logistics, and humanitarian logistics. It has been published in Computers & Operations Research, the Journal of the Operational Research Society and the Journal of Cleaner Production. His recognitions include IIT Kharagpur’s Faculty Excellence Award.

Prof. Sri Krishna Kumar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at IIT Kharagpur. He earned his PhD from the Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering at Loughborough University, UK. His expertise covers supply chain management, port logistics, knowledge management, game theory and optimisation. His work has been published in the International Journal of Production Research, Computers & Industrial Engineering, Annals of Operations Research and Computers in Industry. He has worked on projects for the Ministry of Shipping and Eastern Railway.

Prof. Akhilesh Kumar is a Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at IIT Kharagpur. He holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering from Wayne State University, USA, and a BTech in Manufacturing Engineering from NIFFT Ranchi. His research covers operations research, predictive analytics, machine learning, the Internet of Things and reverse logistics. He worked in industry as a Solution Architect (Operations Research) in pricing and revenue analytics at JDA Software, and was a Visiting Researcher at Sheffield University Management School, UK. His work has appeared in the International Journal of Production Research and the International Journal of Production Economics. His recognitions include a Faculty Excellence Award.

Prof. Anand Jacob Abraham is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at IIT Kharagpur. He holds a PhD in Management Studies from the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru (2020), and an MTech in Industrial Engineering and Management from NIT Calicut. Before joining IIT Kharagpur he was on the Operations and Supply Chain faculty at IIM Jammu. His research covers game theory, operations research, operations management, and environmental and water-resource economics. It has been published in Economics Letters, Mathematical Social Sciences and Expert Systems with Applications. His recognitions include an Indian Economic Association Medal.

Prof. Jhareswar Maiti is a Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at IIT Kharagpur. His page lists the Suresh and Vidya Nair Chair Professorship among his honours. His research spans safety engineering and analytics, quality engineering and process excellence, risk and uncertainty modelling, ergonomics, and AI and machine learning applications. His work has appeared in Accident Analysis & Prevention, Reliability Engineering & System Safety and IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems. His recognitions include the P C Mahalanobis Distinguished Educator Award in Management Science (2020), a Springer Nature Author Award, and listing among the World’s Top 2% Scientists.

Prof. Mamata Jenamani is a Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at IIT Kharagpur. She holds a PhD from IIT Kharagpur and was a Research Associate in Computer Science at Purdue University, USA. Her research covers e-business and information systems, web data analytics, online auctions and e-procurement, and supply chain automation. It has been published in the Journal of Business Research, Information Processing & Management and Expert Systems with Applications. She has led AI-enabled diagnostics projects for GAIL and the Central Mine Planning and Design Institute. Her recognitions include the Emerald/EFMD (European Foundation for Management Development) Outstanding Doctoral Research Award and the DST (Department of Science and Technology) Women Scientist Award.

Prof. Sayak Roychowdhury is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at IIT Kharagpur. He holds a PhD and an MS in Industrial and Systems Engineering from The Ohio State University, USA, and a BE in Electrical Engineering from Jadavpur University. He brings more than four years of industry experience: as a Senior Operational Analyst at NetJets (USA), a Data Science Intern at Ford (USA) and an Executive Engineer at Siemens. His research covers quality and reliability, statistical learning, reinforcement learning, decision analytics and game theory. It has been published in IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management and Computers & Industrial Engineering.

Prof. Balagopal G Menon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at IIT Kharagpur. He holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering and Management from IIT Kharagpur and an MTech in Engineering Statistics from Cochin University of Science and Technology. He was a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Energy Institute, The University of Texas at Austin, and a Visiting Research Fellow at Salford Business School, UK. His research covers operations management, system dynamics and simulation, energy management, applied econometrics, and quality and reliability. It has appeared in Energy Efficiency, Travel Behaviour and Society and Environmental Modeling & Assessment.

Prof. V N Achutha Naikan is a Professor at the Subir Chowdhury School of Quality and Reliability, IIT Kharagpur. He holds a PhD in Reliability and Condition Monitoring and an MTech in Reliability Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, and a BTech in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Kerala. He has served as Dean of the Vinod Gupta School of Management and, for about ten years, as Head of the Reliability Engineering Centre / School of Quality and Reliability. He previously worked at Union Carbide India and ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation), and was a Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland, USA. His expertise covers reliability engineering, condition-based maintenance, quality control and simulation. His recognitions include an Emerald Literati Award.

Prof. Subhajit Sidhanta is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at IIT Kharagpur. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Louisiana State University, USA, and a BE in Information Technology from Jadavpur University. His research covers distributed and edge computing systems, multi-drone systems, reinforcement and federated learning, and big data analytics. It has appeared in Scientific Reports, Pervasive and Mobile Computing and the Journal of Network and Systems Management. His recognitions include an AWS Research Grant.