Our Faculty

Research Talks Delivered

• Efficient Distribution of Compressed Natural Gas: A case of Sabarmati Gas Limited, Gujarat, India

Invited Talks

• Food Supply Chain Disruptions: A Case Study of Public Distribution System — ALX Conference 2023

• Life Member of the Operational Research Society of India (ORSI), India
• Life Member of the Analytics Society of India (ASI), India
• Member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), USA
• Member of Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), USA
• Member of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), USA

• Awarded top-cited article “Impact of COVID-19 on Logistics Systems and disruptions in Food Supply Chain” published in the International Journal of Production Research (2022)
• Financial assistance by the Ministry of Education, Government of India, Fellow Programme in Management (2017- 22)
• Topper Scored in Master of Technology by Dept of Production and Industrial Engineering, NIT Jamshedpur |2016.
• Financial assistance by the Ministry of Education, Government of India, during Master of Technology (2014-2016)

• Kumar, R., Kumar, A. (2024) “Truck-Drone Delivery System for Last-mile Logistics: A Simulation Modelling Approach.” 57th Annual Convention of The Operational Research Society of India (ORSI-2024): International Conference of Emerging Trends in Business Analytics and Management Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India. December 12-14, 2024.
• Kumar, R., Ganapathy, L., Gokhale., Tiwari MK. (2022) Scaling up the Digitalization of the Public Distribution System: A COVID-19 Pandemic Impetus. MIM 2022: 10^th IFAC Conference on Manufacturing Modeling, Management and Control. Nantes, France. June 22-24, 2022.
• Kumar, R., Ganapathy, L., Gokhale., Tiwari MK. (2022) Distribution of COVID-19 Vaccines: A Case Study of Maharashtra, India, (Virtual), 32^nd Annual Conference of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) April 21-25, 2022.
• Kumar, R., Ganapathy, L., Gokhale., Tiwari MK. (2021) Resilient Supply Chain Network Design for Production and Distribution Planning, (Virtual) 9^th INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society Workshop, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India. December 13-15, 2021.
• Yadav A.K., Kumar, R (2021) Where India Stands Among Top Onion Exporting Countries: An Analysis of Competitiveness. (Virtual), 7^th International Conference on Empirical Issues in International Trade and Finance (EIITF), Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Kolkata, India. December 16-17, 2021.
• Dutta G, Kumar R, Natesan S, Roy D (2021) Efficient Distribution of Compressed Natural Gas for Sabarmati Gas Limited Fueling Stations in Gujarat, India, with Simulation, (Virtual), 22^nd conference of the international federation of operational research societies (IFORS) Hanyang University, South Korea. August 23-27, 2021.
• Kumar, R., Ganapathy, L., Gokhale R., Tiwari MK. (2021) A Risk Mitigation Approach for Resilient Supply Chain Network Considering Uncertain Demand. (Virtual), IISE Annual Conference, May 22-25, 2021.
• Kumar, R., Ganapathy, L., Gokhale R., Tiwari MK. (2021) Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Public Distribution System. (Virtual), 31st Annual Conference of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) April 30-05, 2021.
• Kumar, R., Ganapathy, L., Gokhale R., Tiwari MK. (2020) Integrated Production and Distribution Planning with Supply Chain Disruption and Risk Mitigation (Virtual), INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 8-13, 2020.
• Mishra, A., Kumar, R., Sharma, V. (2019) Modeling of industry 4.0 based processing for the design of supply chain network: An agri-business case study. 52^nd Annual Convention of The Operational Research Society of India & International Conference, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India. December 15-18,2019.
• Kumar, R., Gokhale, R., Ganapathy, L. (2019) Modeling of Production and Distribution Planning in the Flexible Supply Chain. 19^th Global Conference on Flexible System Management (GLOGIFT-19) Flexibility, Innovation and Sustainable Business, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India. December 06-08, 2019.
• Yadav A.K., Kumar, R., Parhi, S. (2018) Export Performance of Horticulture Crops Using Systems Approach. 12th Annual ISDSI Conference on Data-Driven Decision Making in the Digital Age, S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai, India. December 27-30, 2018.
• Kumar, R., Gokhale, R., Ganapathy, L. (2018) Supply Chain Flexibility Introduction, Classification, and its Measures. 18^th Global Conference on Digitization and Flexibility for Organizational Management and Transformation, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow, India. December 18-20, 2018.
• Kumar, R. (2016). Simulation Modeling of Stochastic Dynamic Job Shop Scheduling Strategies in Manufacturing System. International Conference on E-Business and Supply Chain Competitiveness, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India. February 12-14, 2016.